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Mehmet Cetingulec is a Turkish journalist with 34 years professional experience, including 23 years with the Sabah media group during which he held posts as a correspondent covering the prime minister’s and presidential offices, economy news chief and parliamentary bureau chief. For nine years, he headed the Ankara bureau of the daily Takvim, where he also wrote a regular column. He has published two books.
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![Trucks line up at Turkey's Habur border gate to Iraq July 6, 2014. Chaos in Iraq, where an Islamist insurgency threatens to dismember the country, has brought one of Turkey's key trade routes to a virtual halt. Turkish exports to Iraq fell 21 percent to $727 million in June, according to data from the Turkish Exporters Association (TIM), but the full extent of the drop-off in trade is only likely to be reflected in the figures over the coming months. Picture taken July 6, 2014. REUTERS/Osman Orsal (TURKEY](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2019/02/RTR3Y2HP.jpg/RTR3Y2HP.jpg?h=a5ae579a&itok=6cSUdATa)
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![A Syrian shop owner, Mustafa Turkmen, poses during an interview on May 1, 2018 in Gaziantep, southwestern Turkey. - In the Turkish city of Gaziantep, home to around half a million Syrians who fled the civil war south of the border, hundreds of Syrian businesses are thriving in a boost both for the displaced community and their host country. (Photo by OZAN KOSE / AFP) (Photo credit should read OZAN KOSE/AFP/Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2018/10/GettyImages-958955458.jpg/GettyImages-958955458.jpg?h=a5ae579a&itok=f13bo91q)
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![Makeshift tents of Syrian refugees are seen in a wooded area in central Ankara October 5, 2013. Some 150 Syrians, mostly from villages near Syria's Aleppo, prefer to settle in the central Turkish capital instead of refugee camps run by the Turkish government. According to the families, this allows them to work as daily workers. Most of them collect plastic and paper garbage from the trash cans of buildings for recycling and sell it to make money. REUTERS/Umit Bektas (TURKEY - Tags: SOCIETY IMMIGRATION POLIT](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2018/09/RTR3FMDH.jpg/RTR3FMDH.jpg?h=a5ae579a&itok=ZnUbqhMw)
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