Monday, 3 August, 2020 , 16:46Nytimes.com | By Steven Erlanger
BRUSSELS — The warships were escorting a vessel suspected of smuggling weapons into Libya, violating a United Nations arms embargo. Challenged by a French naval frigate, the warships went to battle alert. Outnumbered and outgunned, the French frigate withdrew.
Despite being a NATO member, Turkey has bought Russian air defense. And a recent push into Libya and its energy ambitions nearly led to armed conflicts with France and Greece.
Tuesday, 28 July, 2020 , 16:30Anurima Bhargava and Nadine Maenza , U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom
Monday, 27 July, 2020 , 18:30nytimes.com | By The Editorial Board | July 22, 2020
Opinion
Changing the secular space back into a religious one is a risk for the World Heritage Site.
Friday, 24 July, 2020 , 17:56nytimes.com | By Livia Albeck-Ripka | July 24, 2020
Behrouz Boochani, a Kurdish-Iranian exile, said the news showed the vast differences between the two neighboring countries on human rights.
Wednesday, 22 July, 2020 , 18:23Bianet.org
Calling themselves "Grey-Haired Elders," 101 people from different segments of society, backgrounds and politics have issued a joint statement.
Calling out to the opposition, they have said, "The solution lies in the establishment of democracy alliance of all opposition forces without delay."
Monday, 20 July, 2020 , 17:05Washingtonpost.com | By Kareem Fahim
To serve as a mayor from Turkey’s pro-Kurdish political party these days is to fear arrest at any moment and govern in circumstances that hover between stifling and absurd, said Ayhan Bilgen, one of the few who has kept his office during an unrelenting government purge.
Monday, 13 July, 2020 , 18:29NYT | By David E. Sanger, Eric Schmitt and Ronen Bergman | July 13, 2020
Some officials say that a joint American-Israeli strategy is evolving — some might argue regressing — to a series of short-of-war clandestine strikes.
Monday, 13 July, 2020 , 18:01NYT | By Carlotta Gall | Published July 11, 2020
The World Heritage site was once a potent symbol of Christian-Muslim rivalry, and it could become one once more.
Wednesday, 8 July, 2020 , 18:00Nytimes.com | By Carlotta Gall Photographs by Mauricio Lima
In his push for economic development, Turkey’s president has flooded the archaeological gem of Hasankeyf and displaced thousands of families.
HASANKEYF, Turkey — There was something exceptional about Hasankeyf that made visitors fall in love with the town on first sight.
Wednesday, 1 July, 2020 , 15:25Rudaw.net Fazel Hawramy
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — Amnesty International has issued an urgent appeal to save the life of a Syrian Kurdish man imprisoned and allegedly tortured in Iran by intelligence agents.
