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Turkey Predicts Alliance With Egypt as Regional Anchors ANTHONY SHADID The New York Times 09/18/2011	Turkish police crack down on journalists SELCAN HACAOGLU AP 03/03/2011
A newly assertive Turkey offered on Sunday a vision of a starkly realigned Middle East, where the country’s former allies in Syria and Israel fall into deeper isolation, and a burgeoning alliance with Egypt underpins a new order in a region roiled by revolt and revolution.	Turkish police on Thursday detained about 10 people, mostly journalists, in a crackdown on an alleged secularist network accused of conspiring to topple the Islamic-rooted government, reports said. Critics say the case is part of a government assault on press freedom.
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Israel fears Turks could pass its secrets to Iran Dan Williams Alertnet 08/02/2010	Turkey has imposed indefinite ban on Google services Hurriyet Daily News 06/08/2010
Israel's Defence Minister Ehud Barak has voiced concern that once-stalwart ally Turkey could share Israeli intelligence secrets with Iran, revealing a deep distrust as Ankara's regional interests shift.	Turkey's web users again bear the brunt of heavy-handed censorship as the Telecommunications Commication Presidency indefinitely shuts off access to several Google services, including 'Google Docs.' The move follows the banning of the popular video-sharing website YouTube for alleged insults against Turkish Republic founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
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Shopkeeper saves falling child in amazing caught-on-camera heroism [VIDEO] Tom Cullen Asylum.co.uk 05/27/2010	Russia Signs $20 Billion Deal for Turkish Nuclear Power Plant San Francisco Chronicle 05/12/2010
Crumbs this one is a close call. Too close. A hero has saved a four-year-old boy who fell from the top of an escalator, in Turkey, almost certainly saving his life.	Russia's ZAO Atomstroyexport signed an agreement to build a power plant with four nuclear reactors on Turkey's southern coast at a cost of as much as $20 billion after more than a year of negotiations.
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'Noah's Ark' found in Turkey The Sun 04/27/2010	Turkish law penalizes women who travel abroad for artificial insemination 03/16/2010
The remains of Noah's Ark have been discovered 13,000ft up a Turkish mountain, it has been claimed.	A new Turkish law makes it a criminal offence for a woman to go abroad and get pregnant via artificial insemination.
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Turkish girl, 16, buried alive for talking to boys Robert Tait The Guardian 02/05/2010	Turkish Police Arrest 120 With Suspected Al-Qaeda Ties BBC 01/23/2010
Turkish police have recovered the body of a 16-year-old girl they say was buried alive by relatives in an "honour" killing carried out as punishment for talking to boys.	Turkish police have arrested 120 al-Qaeda suspects in a major nationwide anti-terror operation, reports say.
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