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Turkish police detain Islamic Televangelist and followers

By SUZAN FRASER - Associated Press

This photo provided on Saturday, Jan. 20, 2018, by the government-controlled Syrian Central Military Media, shows Syrian government forces firing their weapon during a battle against the Syrian opposition fighters, in the southern Aleppo countryside, Syria. Syrian state TV says government forces have retaken a key air base in northwest Syria that was lost to rebels in 2015. The state broadcaster says Syrian troops fought their way into the strategic Abu Zuhour air base on Saturday, in Idlib province. (Syrian Central Military Media, via AP)

Idlib, last refuge of Free Syrian Army, plagued by violence

By Jacob Wirtschafter and Gilgamesh Nabeel — Special to The Washington Times

Wearing T-shirts with pictures of Turkish Republic founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, supporters rally for Muharrem Ince, who is seen as a strong contender to end President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's 16-year rule in presidential elections next week. (Associated Press)

Recep Tayyip Erdogan faces strong Turkey election challenge

By Zekine Turkeri and Marga Zambrana and Austin Davis - Special to The Washington Times

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan salutes a rally in solidarity with Palestinians before an extraordinary summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), in Istanbul, Turkey, Friday, May 18, 2018. Turkey has called on Muslim nations to stand with Palestinians and to work to stop countries joining the United States in relocating their Israeli embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.(Presidential Press Service/Pool via AP)

At OIC, Muslim nations condemn Israel and U.S., call for unity

By ZEYNEP BILGINSOY - Associated Press

Iraqi soldiers prepare to cast their votes in early voting for Iraq's security forces, prisoners and hospital patients ahead of Saturday's national parliamentary elections, in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, May 10, 2018. The vote will be the first since Iraq declared victory over the Islamic State group and the fourth since the 2003 U.S.-led toppling of Saddam Hussein. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

Iraqi election: Shiite split could check Iran’s influence

By Tamara Emad and Gilgamesh Nabeel — Special to The Washington Times

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, delivers a speech during an arts biennial opening inside the Byzantine-era Hagia Sophia, an UNESCO world heritage site and one of Istanbul's main tourist attractions, in the historic Sultanahmet district of Istanbul, Saturday, March 31, 2018. Turkey's president has recited an Islamic prayer in the Hagia Sophia, an Istanbul landmark that has become a symbol of interfaith and diplomatic tensions. Erdogan recited the Quran's first verse to the "souls of all, especially Istanbul's conqueror." (Kayhan Ozer/Pool Photo via AP)

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkish leader, slams Kosovo’s PM over secret deportations

By Zeynep Bilginsoy - Associated Press

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Istanbul’ by Bethany Hughes

By Aram Bakshian Jr.

FILE - In this file photo taken Sunday, July 5, 2015, Uighurs living in Turkey and Turkish supporters, chant slogans as they hold a Chinese flag before burning it during a protest near China's consulate in Istanbul, against what they call oppression by Chinese government to Muslim Uighurs in far-western Xinjiang region. Since 2013, thousands of Uighurs, a Turkic-speaking Muslim minority from western China, have traveled to Syria to train and fight alongside al-Qaida, playing key roles in several battles. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)

AP Exclusive: Uighurs fighting in Syria take aim at China

By GERRY SHIH - Associated Press

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas gestures as he talks during the closing news conference following the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation's Extraordinary Summit in Istanbul, Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2017. Muslim nations of the 57-member Organisation of Islamic Cooperation had rejecting U.S. President Donald Trump's declaration of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, and appear set to counter it with a declaration of east Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestinian state. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian president, says no role for U.S. in peace process

By Zeynep Bilginsoy and Sarah El Deeb - Associated Press

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, at the Organization of Islamic Cooperation summit in Istanbul, threatened to remove the U.S. from the Middle East peace process because of President Trump's decision to declare Jerusalem as Israel's capital. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Muslim leaders say U.S. lost influence with Jerusalem move

By Carlo Muñoz, Carlo Muños and Dan Boylan - The Washington Times

Syrian family finds refuge in Waterbury

By LARAINE WESCHLER - Associated Press

Dr. Mehmet Oz, host of "The Dr. Oz Show," surprises passengers aboard a Turkish Airlines flight from Istanbul to
New York for the taping of a segment on healthy flying tips. (Photo by Lark Gould).

Mehmet Oz pops up aboard Turkish Airlines flight with tips on healthy traveling

By Lark Gould

Reports: Thunder C Kanter’s father detained in Turkey

By CLIFF BRUNT - Associated Press

Illustration on Erdogan's impact on Turkey by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Turkey’s democratic experiment fails

By Clifford D. May

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan waves to supporters in Istanbul, Turkey, on Sunday, April 16, 2017. Erdogan declared victory in Sunday's historic referendum that will grant sweeping powers to the presidency, hailing the result as a "historic decision." (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Recep Tayyip Erdogan granted sweeping powers in Turkish referendum vote

By Guy Taylor and Dan Boylan - The Washington Times

Erdogan urges US, Britain to drop ‘exaggerated’ laptop ban

Associated Press

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses his supporters in Istanbul, Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017. Erdogan started campaigning for constitutional reforms that would greatly expand the powers of his office on Saturday, hours after a vote in parliament cleared the way for a national referendum on the issue. (Kayhan Ozer/Presidential Press Service, Pool Photo via AP

Turkey: Erdogan buoyed by vote for powerful presidency

By Suzan Fraser and Dominique Soguel - Associated Press

In this photo taken on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017, people stand by the Bosporus Strait in Istanbul. These days, with a string of terror attacks targeting Istanbul still fresh in his memory, some residents say they are adapting their daily routines because of fears they could become the latest victims of violent extremism. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Anxiety in Istanbul after series of extremist attacks

By MIKE CORDER and CINAR KIPER - Associated Press

People walk over the Golden Horn Bridge in Istanbul, Friday, Jan. 6, 2017. Turkey's economy is suffering in the face of a string of extremist attacks _ including the nightclub massacre of New Year’s revelers, most of them foreigners _ and uncertainty following the failed coup in July against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that saw more than 270 people killed. AP Photo/ Emrah Gurel)

Turkey’s tourism takes big hit after extremist attacks

By CINAR KIPER and DUSAN STOJANOVIC - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 29, 2015, file photo, New York Liberty's Sugar Rodgers is shown during the first half of a WNBA basketball game against the Connecticut Sun, in Uncasville, Conn. The New York Liberty guard traveled to Turkey this past fall after the WNBA season ended to play basketball there. She had spent a few years bouncing around other foreign leagues, then signed with Osmaniye _ a team about two hours from the Syrian border. She lasted a month in the country town where she was living before returning to Virginia in November. “I heard about a bombing that killed 17 people about two hours away and right there I was like I don't want to stay,” Rodgers said. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)

Amid violence, WNBA players consider leaving Turkey

By DOUG FEINBERG - Associated Press