Category: Politics
(Bloomberg) — Turkey’s Covid-19 death toll topped 10,000 Wednesday as the government barred public health workers from quitting or retiring amid a surge in coronavirus cases. The ban applies to doctors, nurses and other health ...
Erdogan’s quest to make Turkey great again has made some enemies. How many battles can Turkey fight at once? One year ago, Turkey launched a military incursion into Northern Syria—with U.S. President Donald Trump’s blessing—to ...
The EU’s border agency Frontex is defying European Commission demands to investigate reports they are preventing asylum seekers from landing on the Greek islands. “Frontex strongly rejects any suggestions of any involvement in pushbacks,” a ...
Widespread or systematic imprisonment of individuals with alleged links to the Gülen movement may constitute crimes against humanity, said the UN Human Rights Council’s Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, in an opinion on the summary ...
TURKISH intelligence services have been accused of plotting to assassinate two prominent Kurdish political leaders in the northern Syrian enclave known as Rojava and establishing a network of spies there. Former leader of the Democratic ...
Some Turks were happy this week to see President Recep Tayyip Erdogan teach France a “good lesson” with a “long overdue” call for a boycott, but others said the move was “irrational” and “impossible to ...
An Istanbul court on Tuesday sentenced a local US consulate employee to jail for aiding the network Ankara accuses of attempting a 2016 coup, in a verdict that could further strain ties between Turkey and ...
France said it would recall its envoy to Turkey for consultations following “unacceptable” comments by the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who suggested Emmanuel Macron, his French counterpart needed mental health treatment. Erdogan’s remarks are the ...
French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian on Sunday accused Turkey of “trying to whip up hatred” against France, continuing a war of words between the two NATO allies over Islam. On Saturday, France said it ...
Key advisers accused of presiding over hostile work environment and undermining policy. PARIS — On the world stage, French President Emmanuel Macron has stressed cooperation and a can-do attitude. But, behind the scenes, the office ...