Rumors of holding new elections in Istanbul! While the count of invalid ballots in Istanbul continues, the difference between the winner Ekrem Imamoglu and the ruling party candidate, Binali Yildirim, has fallen to about 15,000 votes from 23,000, but everyone agrees that as things stand at the moment, the difference can not to change in […]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was named “the most distinguished world leader of 2018” on Monday in an online survey conducted by the Rassd News Network. The online survey was organized by the pro-Muslim Brotherhood news network, which was established in Egypt after the Jan. 25, 2011 popular revolution and has a widespread following in […]
The leaders of North Korea and South Korea have signed a joint declaration after concluding their 3rd summit talks. The declaration states that North Korea is ready to permanently dismantle its nuclear facility in Nyongbyon, on the condition that the United States takes reciprocal actions. South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim […]
Former United Nations secretary-general and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Kofi Annan has died Saturday after a short illness at the age of 80, his foundation announced. “It is with immense sadness that the Annan family and the Kofi Annan Foundation announce that Kofi Annan, former Secretary General of the United Nations and Nobel Peace Laureate, […]
Tens of thousands gathered in the Romanian capital Bucharest on Saturday for a second day of demonstrations after more than 450 people were hurt and around 30 arrested in a huge anti-corruption protest on Friday. Massive crowds gathered in downtown Bucharest on Saturday night, watched by security forces as they chanted: “Down with the government” and “Justice, […]
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey will stand its ground after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to slap sanctions on Ankara if it does not free an American pastor, broadcaster Haberturk reported on Sunday. The friendship between the United States and Turkey is on the line in this dispute, Erdogan was quoted by TRT Haber […]
Boris Johnson has resigned as Foreign Secretary amid a growing political crisis over the UK’s Brexit strategy. He is the second senior cabinet minister to quit within hours following Brexit Secretary David Davis’s exit. His departure came shortly before Theresa May is due to address Parliament about her new Brexit plan, which has angered many […]
Turkey issued a decree on Sunday dismissing more than 18,000 civil servants, half of which were from the police force, ahead of this month’s expected lifting of a two-year-old state of emergency imposed after an attempted coup in July 2016, Reuters reports. The decree follows President Tayyip Erdogan’s victory in last month’s presidential election and […]
Turkey’s opposition leader warned that the nation is heading towards “one man rule” as Muharrem Ince conceded electoral defeat to President Erdogan. Appearing this lunchtime at the headquarters of his party, the CHP, after hours of speculation over his whereabouts, Mr Ince first ordered journalists from the state-controlled TRT to leave the meeting. He was given only […]
Turkey’s long-standing leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan has won a new five-year term after securing outright victory in the first round of a presidential poll. Mr Erdogan got nearly 53% with almost all votes counted. His closest rival Muharrem Ince was on 31%. He will now assume sweeping new powers, won in a controversial referendum last […]
Turkish police have apprehended 47 people accused of participating in the 2016 failed military coup, CNN Turk reported Saturday. This wave of arrests is part of a larger operation that began earlier this week, targeting 124 people accused of supporting US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, who Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan contends masterminded the 2016 attempted coup. […]
U.S. President Donald Trump said North Korean leader Kim Jong Un pledged at a historic summit on Tuesday to move toward complete denuclearisation, while the United States promised its old foe security guarantees. The start of negotiations aimed at banishing what Trump described as North Korea’s “very substantial” nuclear arsenal could have far-reaching ramifications for […]
President Vladimir Putin has said Western sanctions against Russia are “harmful for everyone” and it is in everyone’s interests to lift them, BBC reports. Speaking in Austria, he said Russia had restored stable growth, despite the EU and US sanctions first imposed in 2014 after Russia annexed Ukraine’s Crimea. Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said his […]
An American delegation was engaged in talks on Monday with North Korean officials at the demilitarized zone, raising hopes that a planned meeting between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un could be back on. Earlier, the U.S. State Department said U.S. and North Korean officials had met at Panmunjom, a village in […]
Diplomats from Europe, China and Russia are discussing a new accord to offer Iran financial aid to curb its ballistic missile development and meddling in the region, in the hope of salvaging the 2015 nuclear deal, a German newspaper reported on Sunday. The officials will meet in Vienna in the coming week under the leadership of senior […]
At least one gunman opened fire at a Houston-area high school Friday, killing eight to 10 people, most of them students, authorities said. Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said he could not be precise about the number of deaths at Santa Fe High School, which went on lockdown around 8 a.m. Two suspects believed to be students were […]
It is possible to strengthen relations between NATO and Russia, and a dialogue should be sought, the Secretary-General of the Alliance Jens Stoltenberg said in an interview for today’s issue of the French daily Figaro. “Russia remains our neighbor, and we’d like relations between us not to turn into a new Cold War or another […]
The TURKEN Foundation, that “enables students, scholars, researchers to realize both their full potential and the available services” in the U.S. and assists them “at any kind of problem” organised a dinner in London where the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan gave a speech on Sunday. Only a day ahead of the move of the American embassy from […]
The suspect in a deadly knife attack in central Paris on Saturday evening is a French citizen born in 1997 in Russia’s republic of Chechnya, sources say. Named by media as Khamzat Asimov, he was on a French watch list of people who could pose a threat to national security, the sources said. Police shot […]
Iraq began voting Saturday in its first parliamentary election since declaring victory over the Islamic State group, with the country hoping to shore up a fragile peace and rebuild, AFP reports. Polling stations opened around the conflict-scarred nation under tight security as the jihadists still pose a major security threat despite a sharp fall in violence. The […]
