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Turkish and Chinese people have historical relations since the periods of the Hun Empire and Göktürks. These relationships are driven, sometimes friendly and sometimes went to war in the history

Monday, June 13, 2011

Four parties to form new Turkish Parliament

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Four party groups will take their place in Turkey’s new Parliament as electoral officials had opened more than 90 percent of the nation’s ballot boxes by late Sunday.

The ruling Justice and Development Party, or AKP, will form a majority government after winning over 50 percent of the popular vote; the incumbents will be joined again by the opposition Republican People's Party, or CHP, the Nationalist Movement Party, or MHP, and the Peace and Democracy Parliament, or BDP, in the legislature.


A party must have at least 20 MPs in order to form a parliamentary group.

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan arrived at AKP headquarters and is expected to address ecstatic party supporters, who have gathered in front of the building, cheering and chanting slogans.

CHP leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu also went to his party's headquarters. It was reported that Kılıçdaroğlu would issue a press statement later in the evening.

Around 35 BDP-backed independent candidates have been elected to the Turkish Parliament after the party supported a number of independents to circumvent the country’s 10 percent election threshold.

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Wednesday, June 1, 2011

China Mongols protest in Xilinhot over shepherd's death

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Ethnic Mongolians in northern China have held a rare protest in front of a government building over the death of a shepherd.

Crowds of students this week marched to the building in Xilinhot, a city in Inner Mongolia, rights groups said.

They were angry at the 10 May death of a herder, Mergen, who they say was run over by a van driven by a Han Chinese, the country's dominant ethnicity.

The Xilinhot government has not commented on the protest. 

In a statement on its website, though, the government said police had arrested two Han Chinese for murder.

China's six million ethnic Mongols say their nomadic pastoral existence is being threatened by the growth of mining projects in the mineral-rich region.

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