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Turkey extends emergency rule to maintain purge of Gulen supporters: deputy PM | Reuters
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Turkey’s parliament voted overnight to extend emergency rule by three months in a move which the government said was needed to sustain a purge of supporters of the U.S.-based Muslim cleric accused of orchestrating July’s failed coup, state media said.

Emergency rule, first imposed in Turkey after an attempted putsch on July 15 and then extended in October, enables the government to bypass parliament in enacting new laws and to limit or suspend rights and freedoms when deemed necessary.

Mystery of Kazakhstan sleeping sickness solved, says government | World news | The Guardian
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Now the mystery has at last been solved and the cause does indeed lie in the uranium mines, said Kazakhstan’s deputy PM, Berdibek Saparbaev. After analysing the results of medical examinations of all the residents, researchers concluded that it was caused by heightened levels of carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons in the air.

“The uranium mines were closed at some point, and at times a concentration of carbon monoxide occurs there,” Saparbaev said. “The oxygen in the air is reduced accordingly, which is the real reason for the sleeping sickness in these villages.”

Evacuation of the two villages has begun, with authorities reportedly relocating 68 of 223 families so far.

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Ukraine’s economy is starting to disintegrate: Polish Deputy PM | Reuters
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Ukraine’s economy is starting to disintegrate, creating a risk of hundreds of thousands of immigrants flowing into Poland, Polish Deputy Prime Minister Janusz Piechocinski said.

Piechocinski, leader of the centre-right junior coalition partner PSL, told Reuters he thought Ukrainian elites had made disappointing progress in building a Western-style democracy.

He defended comments by PSL presidential candidate Adam Jarubas who called for a softer stance toward Russia over Ukraine, signaling frictions in a government coalition that ranks as one of Kiev’s most outspoken supporters in its battle with pro-Russian insurgents.

“These signals which are coming from Ukraine are very disturbing, because the economy there is beginning to disintegrate, economic ties are beginning to disintegrate,” Piechocinski said in an interview.

“In a black scenario of developments in Ukraine, one cannot exclude an inflow of a few hundred thousand emigrants to Poland. Looking at what has happened during the last year, one has to take into account all scenarios and be ready.”

Turkey: Gov’t, HDP prepare joint text for Kurdish peace

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The most critical stage in hectic talks between the government and the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) on the resolution process, which has recently gained visible momentum, has arrived.

At meetings held on two consecutive days earlier this week, Deputy PM Yalçın Akdoğan and the HDP delegation, composed of Deputy Parliamentary Group Chair Pervin Buldan and Istanbul deputy Sırrı Süreyya Önder, drafted a “joint statement” which was put forward as a condition by the jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), Abdullah Öcalan, for the announcement of a “reinforced cease-fire.” In order not to encounter any problem from the PKK side, the HDP sent the text to the PKK headquarters in Iraq.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who cut his trip to Latin America a day earlier than planned, also wanted to see the text before it was announced, sources said.

Former deputy PM defends ISIL in tweet, says ISIL does not torture
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Former Deputy Prime Minister Emrullah İşler defended the terrorist group the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), which is known for its brutal treatment of people in every place it has taken over, in a tweet he posted to his Twitter account late on Wednesday, stating, “ISIL also kills, but at least doesn’t torture.”

İşler’s tweet, seen as supportive of the terrorist ISIL, which has been attacking the Syrian Kurdish border town of Kobani with heavy artillery for over three weeks, drew ire on Wednesday.

İşler wrote: “What was the crime of the youth who died after he was struck by stones in the head? Even ISIL cannot hold a candle to those who did this. ISIL also kills, but at least does not torture.”

#turkey sees outcry after deputy PM says women shouldn’t laugh in public
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One of the most senior members of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government sparked an outcry on Tuesday after declaring that women should not laugh loudly in public. Deputy Prime Minister #Bulent_Arinc, one of the co-founders of the ruling Islamic-rooted Justice and Development Party (AKP), made the comment while lamenting the moral decline of modern society. read more

Erdoganomics and life after AKP | econoscale
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Recently, in a public statement Deputy PM Arinc said ‘if we (AKP) were to leave (power), the next government wouldn’t be able to pay salaries within three months’. It was an implicit threat to the public to vote for AKP if they want to keep an economic crisis at bay because ‘AKP knows how to manage the economy’. The Deputy PM’s statement is probably true; not because AKP is good at macroeconomics while others are not but because others do not know how to manage the economy that PM Erdogan created and AKP supported. Erdogan has created a beast that only Erdogan can control. And without him Turkey is bound to get into another crisis. Turkey is a typical example of an unstable equilibrium; think of a pencil that is standing on its sharpened edge. It is in equilibrium (standing straight) but extremely unstable. That sharpened edge is Erdogan and he keeps Turkish economy stable…for now.

Erdoganomics; autocratic capitalism: At first sight Erdogan’s economic system is close to the state capitalism of Russia or China where the state is the largest player in the market and drives the economy usually indirectly through private sector outlets. In Turkey, however, Erdogan is the state which makes his system more of an autocratic capitalism. Erdogan does not own any companies; however, his vision drives the economy. He tells what to build (a canal, social housing, malls, the largest mosque in Turkey, the largest airport in the world, the largest hospital in the world) and where to build it (in Istanbul). Who builds it is determined through competition; a selected number of private companies that sympathize with Erdogan compete in the investment contracts but ultimately it’s a decision for ‘number one’ – the code name for Erdogan in leaked phone conversations between conglomerate bosses.

Obsessed with growth; Erdoganomics is all about growth. The overusage of the word ‘build’ in the previous paragraph should be indicative of where growth comes from; construction. Much like his peer, President Putin, Erdogan views structural reforms as ‘voodoo economics’. What matters is growth. Putin has natural resources to produce it, Erdogan has the construction sector

#UK to resettle some Syria refugees, Nick Clegg confirms

Some of the “most vulnerable” Syrian refugees will be temporarily resettled in the UK, Deputy PM Nick Clegg says.

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