While on a working visit to the US, Turkey’s justice minister Bekir Bozdag had a meeting with US Attorney General Jeff Sessions during which they discussed the extradition of US-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, Anadolu reports.
13 more bodies were found in the mine. According to preliminary reports, the explosion was caused by human factor.
Garo Paylan, the ethnic Armenian MP of Turkey’s parliament, commented on the May 7 police raid on the Belge Publishing House. ‘Belge Publishing House has written down the history of Turkey’s crimes……..At least read the conscated books”, Paylan said on Twitter.
In an interview with German newspaper Rheinischen Post published Monday, Juncker said the move “would be the reddest of all red lines.”
Turkish police arrested Ahmet Tevfik Uzun, a former lawmaker of the ruling party, on grounds of having links with the Gulenists, CNN Turk reports. The arrest comes amid an ongoing investigation on the 2016 July 15 coup attempt.
Turkish police attacked on May 7 the Belge Publishing House, founded by Turkish human rights activist Ragıp Zarakolu and his wife, Turkish media reported. Zarakolu is known for recognizing the Armenian Genocide.
“OSCE isn’t among the organizations, causing excitation in Russia. Just the contrary, MG today is the only platform, where Russia and the West have mutual understanding. And I don’t consider that Moscow may destroy that opportunity of connection.”
“If there is a threat on the border of the Republic of Armenia, including also from that direction, our sacred duty is to jointly act against our enemy. This is enshrined in the respective documents,” the commander said.
“Military experts in Syria examined the firearms of neutralized terrorists and discovered that snipers of the Islamic State and Jebhat Al Nusra are using night vision devices with electronics made by Russian enterprises,” Komersant said.
But as officials from the three countries that back rival sides in the conflict signed the agreement at the Syria cease-fire talks in Kazakhstan, members of the Syrian opposition delegation shouted in protest and walked out of the conference room in Astana, the Kazakh capital.
