Source: Time The politically motivated move comes ahead of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s visit Pakistan has expelled more than 100 Turkish teachers from 28 international schools in response to […]
Reuters International NOV 16, 2016 – 12:46 Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan makes a speech during his meeting with mukhtars at the Presidential Palace in Ankara, Turkey, October 19, 2016. Murat Cetinmuhurdar/Presidential Palace/Handout via REUTERS (reuters_tickers) By Ercan Gurses and Orhan Coskun ANKARA (Reuters) – President Tayyip Erdogan could govern Turkey […]
Reuters International NOV 16, 2016 – www.swissinfo.ch A woman holds her child as she crosses from the Islamic State fighters-controlled part of Mosul into the Iraqi special forces soldiers-controlled part of Mosul, Iraq. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic (reuters_tickers) By Ahmed Rasheed, John Davison and Dominic Evans BAGHDAD/BASHIQA, Iraq (Reuters) – Iraqi Shi’ite militias […]
November 16, 2016 Islamabad [Pakistan]: Pakistan Interior Ministry has asked the Turkish staff of Pak-Turk schools and colleges to leave the country by November 20 ahead of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s visit. This comes as in August, Islamabad had promised visiting Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Çavusoglu that it would […]
DAILY SABAH WITH ANADOLU AGENCY ISTANBUL Nine mosques that were destroyed by the Israelis in a military offensive launched on the blockaded Gaza Strip in 2014 have been rebuilt in a project initiated by Turkey’s Religious Affairs Presidency Foundation and will officially be opened next month, Turkish authorities announced yesterday. […]
Source: Foreign and Defense Policy, Middle East Freedom of the press has been one of the chief casualties of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s rule. He has confiscated newspapers, sued their […]
October 17, 2016 – 12:18pm | admin By Ahmet S. Yayla In late September, a Turkish hacker group, RedHack, released the emails of Berat Albayrak, Turkey’s Minister of Energy and Natural Resources and the son-in-law of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Hackers have claimed that they downloaded around 20 gigabytes of data from […]
SINEM CENGIZ | Published — Saturday 5 November 2016 Sinem Cengiz Last month, while referring to Turkey’s concerns regarding the situation in Iraq to Crimea, Syria to Cyprus, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said: “Turkey is not just Turkey… it is also responsible to the hundreds of millions of our […]
Reuters International NOV 4, 2016 – Police detain Sebahat Tuncel, co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Regions Party (DBP), during a protest against the arrest of Kurdish lawmakers, in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir, Turkey, November 4, 2016. REUTERS/Sertac Kayar (reuters_tickers) DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) – Turkish authorities arrested the leaders of […]
As passages to western Aleppo are said to be being kept open for civilians to flee across the city, one general in the Syrian army talks of a decision to ‘enter battle’ against forces in eastern areas Robert Fisk Aleppo @indyvoices Syrians carry their belongings as they leave Aleppo’s southwestern frontline […]
Source: Associated Press By MARIA DANILOVA FILE – In this July 17, 2016 file photo, Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen speaks to members of the… Read more WASHINGTON (AP) — A senior State Department official said Monday that Turkey’s contention that a Pennsylvania-based Muslim cleric and his followers were involved in […]
Source: The Local Among the 35 people with diplomatic passports who applied for asylum with the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF), there were also spouses and children, the Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) reports.The Interior Ministry also noted that there are no definitive statistics on the number of asylum applications […]
By AP – Oct 23,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Rebel fighters ride a military vehicle on the outskirts of the Syria Democratic Forces-controlled Tall Rifaat town, northern Aleppo province, Syria, on Saturday (Reuters photo) BEIRUT — A leading northern Syrian rebel coalition warned civilians in Aleppo to stay away from […]
İBRAHIM ALTAY PublishedOctober 17, 2016 Illustration by Necmettin Asma – twitter.com/necmettinasma As we enter the third part of the debate surrounding the concept of news addiction, another perspective shows us that even the usage of the word addiction is not agreed upon, though negative aspects seem, regardless, to affect the […]
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL Published October 22, 2016 AA Photo A 2,000-year-old Roman bath, also known as ‘Basilica Therma,’ located in Central Anatolian Turkish province of Yozgat is expected to be open to tourism in the next few years, officials have said on Saturday. The excavation site contains significant statues and Christian […]
By Rudaw Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi (right) meeting with US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter in Baghdad on Saturday. Photo from AP video. ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Iraq has declined Turkey’s offer of assistance in the offensive to liberate Mosul from ISIS rule. “I know that the Turks want […]
İBRAHIM KALIN@ikalin1 Published October 7, 2016 Strong and wise political leadership is needed to end self-destructive wars and conflicts in Muslim countries and protect them from external intervention and manipulations A number of deep-rooted problems are ravaging the Middle East and the larger Muslim world. It is as if the Muslim […]
There is concern from plaintiffs that ‘politics is trampling on justice’ following an agreement to restore diplomatic relations between Israel and Turkey, writes Robert Fisk Robert Fisk @indyvoices Tuesday 18 October 2016 66 comments Turkish cruise ship Mavi Marmara, carrying pro-Palestinian activists and humanitarian aid to Gaza, leaves from Sarayburnu port in […]
‘From now on we will not wait for problems to come knocking on our door’ By Reuters – Oct 19,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan makes a speech during his meeting with mukhtars at the Presidential Palace in Ankara, Turkey, on Wednesday (Reuters photo) ANKARA/ISTANBUL […]
Oct 16,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Amer Al Sabaileh More than six years into the Syrian crisis, it appears that neither a political nor a military solution is unattainable. Still, the military situation is not completely against the Syrian army and its Russian ally. Strategically, the real change on the ground […]