Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said he is ready to reinstate the death penalty if the Turkish people demand it and parliament approves the necessary legislation. Erdogan spoke early on Tuesday to thousands of supporters outside his Istanbul residence who were chanting for Turkey to restore capital punishment following[…]
US-Turkish tensions have grown after government forces put down an attempted coup on Friday night. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused exiled Turkish businessman and cleric Fethullah Gulen of orchestrating the violence and is demanding the US extradite him. Gulen, who lives in Pennsylvania, denied any involvement and condemned[…]
On Friday, Turkey citizens were faced with a military coup that threatened the expulsion of President Tayyip Erdogon. The military personnel who conducted the coup blocked the bridge over Istanbul’s main waterway and stormed Turkey’s national broadcasting station,TRT, holding a journalist at gunpoint and forcing her to broadcast news that[…]
Spending the last ten days of Ramadan aiding refugees between the Turkey and Syria border, ulema from the Jamiatul Ulama in Kwa-Zulu Natal say conditions for Syrians are still catastrophic. The organisation has been involved in a humanitarian relief effort for the last four years, based on the Turkey-Syria border,[…]
Turkey is blocking all access to independent investigations into the abuses against civilians in southeastern Turkey, where security forces are battling Kurdish fighters, Human Rights Watch said, calling for the UN to be allowed in to investigate. Some of the alleged abuses against civilians include unlawful killings, mass scale displacement,[…]
After years facing an increasingly uncertain future, Syrian refugees were offered a lifeline earlier this month by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s announcement they could be given Turkish citizenship. The news was largely greeted with elation by the country’s more than 2.7 million Syrians, but that brief moment of hope[…]
A Turkish ship carrying aid for Gaza has arrived in Israel, a week after Turkey and Israel agreed to restore ties that soured over a deadly raid on an aid flotilla in 2010. The Panama-flagged Lady Leyla container vessel docked at Ashdod port on Sunday afternoon after departing on Friday.[…]
The reactions of the Turkish-Israeli rapprochement deal have been have been met with a plethora of emotions. Some Palestinians have argued that despite Turkish rhetoric, national self-interest would always supersede that of the Palestinian people. Others have reflected sentiments of disillusionment at the about turn taken by Turkey which appears[…]
OPINION by Galip Dalay Turkey and Israel reached a deal to restore ties, bringing an end to a six-year-long bilateral feud on Monday. Hours after this announcement, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters that Russian President Vladimir Putin received a letter from Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan expressing his “deep[…]
Israel and Turkey have reached an agreement to normalise ties, according to Israeli and Turkish media. The highly anticipated agreement was reported on Sunday, six years after an Israeli raid that killed 10 Turkish activists as an aid flotilla sought to break the blockade on the Gaza Strip. Both sides[…]
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