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Cypriot plane crash, no survivors
One-hundred and fifteen passengers and six crew members died when a Cypriot plane fell from the sky over Athens, Greece on Sunday. The Helios Airlines Boeing 737 flight that was traveling from Larnaca in Cyprus to Prague with a stop in Athens spiraled into a nose dive at around 40km north of Athens. The plane is reported to have lost cabin pressure at around 35,000 feet (10 km) up. Most of the passengers and crew would have been dead on impact of the crash, early indications show. |
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Erdoğan warns private hospitals
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has warned Turkey's private industry's health sector that "some quarters are blatantly swindling the common man." After attending an opening for a state-owned hospital in Kartal, Istanbul, Erdoğan asserted that the reason why the private industry is making investments is "to make citizens feel their citizenship". "This is why we encourage investments in economic and social fields of life," PM said. |
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Eight arrested in leftist protests
Protests by leftists demonstrators held in Istanbul on Sunday, resulted in six men and two women being arrested after clashes between the demonstrators and the police turned violent, Anatolia news agency said. Demonstrators rallied in the city's Kucukcekmece district to commemorate the shooting death of a left-wing militant during an army raid in the east of the country in June. |
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Erdogan addresses Kurdish issue at AKP's fourth anniversary
Addressing a ceremony yesterday marking the fourth anniversary of his party, Justice and Development Party (AKP) leader and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that terrorism had no religion, race or nation, adding that Turkey would overcome the Kurdish problem within the framework of the democratic state. Erdogan further stressed that a common fight against international terrorism was needed, and criticized some political leaders for using terrorism as political fodder. |
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German mayor visits Tunceli
The mayor of Munich city of Germany, Christian Ude, attended a foundation-laying ceremony on Saturday, for an education and cultural center in the town of Pulumur, an eastern Turkish city in the Tunceli province. The center was constructed in association with the Pulumur Municipality and Federation of Turkish-German Friendship. |
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