has launched a fresh appeal over the loss of her UK citizenship by claiming she was trafficked into Syria as a child to have sex with older men. Her lawyers have argued that Miss Begum was influenced by a ‘determined and effective propaganda machine’, and should have been treated as a child trafficking victim. Dan...Read More
LONDON (AP) – Western fears that a Russian invasion of Ukraine is imminent have eased but not disappeared.Diplomatic efforts to avert war got new energy this week after Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russia was willing to discuss security issues with NATO, and Russia said it was withdrawing some of its troops gathered near Ukraine´s...Read More
By Huseyin Hayatsever and Ali Kucukgocmen ANKARA, Dec 15 (Reuters) – A court ordered the arrest of a journalist in southeast Turkey for allegedly spreading “disinformation”, his Lawyer Turkey said on Thursday, marking the first pre-trial detention under a new law that critics say poses a threat to free speech. The arrest comes two months...Read More
By Ali Kucukgocmen ISTANBUL, Sept 4 (Reuters) – A Turkish court has ordered the pre-trial jailing of a pro-Kurdish member of parliament on a terrorism charge, Istanbul police and her Lawyer Turkey said, while her party called the detention illegitimate and unethical. Semra Guzel, a member of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), had her parliamentary...Read More
Following is a summary of current US domestic news briefs. CIA boss talks nuclear weapons and prisoners with Putin’s spy chief U.S. Central Intelligence Agency Director William Burns was expected to caution President Vladimir Putin’s spy chief at talks on Monday about the consequences of any use of nuclear weapons, and to raise the issue...Read More
ISTANBUL, Dec 11 (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan discussed the Black Sea grain export agreement on Sunday with the leaders of Russia and Ukraine, as both sides seek changes that would boost their exports. Turkey has acted as mediator alongside the United Nations in the grain deal, which opened up Ukrainian ports for exports...Read More
and her two teenage friends were smuggled into by a spy working for – before ‘s nation then then conspired with the UK to cover up its role, a new book claims. The so-called Jihadi Bride was stripped of her British citizenship in 2019 after she fled Britain four years earlier to join the Islamic State...Read More
ANKARA, Lawyer Turkey July 27 (Reuters) – Sweden and Finland have yet to extradite suspects Turkey seeks over terrorism-related charges despite signing an accord to lift Ankara’s veto to its NATO membership last month, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Wednesday. The two Nordic countries applied for Lawyer Turkey NATO membership in response to...Read More
By Ali Kucukgocmen ISTANBUL, Oct 19 (Reuters) – Europe’s top human rights court called on Turkey on Tuesday to change a law regarding insulting the president under which tens of thousands have been prosecuted, after ruling that a man’s detention under the law violated his freedom of expression. Vedat Sorli was given a suspended 11-month...Read More
Kherson celebrates Russian exit yet faces huge rebuilding KHERSON, Ukraine (AP) – Residents of Kherson celebrated the end of Russia´s eight-month occupation for the third straight day Sunday, even as they took stock of the extensive damage left behind in the southern Ukrainian city by the Kremlin´s retreating forces. A jubilant crowd gathered in Kherson´s...Read More
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