ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s ruling party on Tuesday nominated Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to run in Turkey’s first directly elected presidential race in August, announcing his candidacy to thousands of cheering supporters. The move could keep Erdogan, who
Though the far-left has long believed that Israel pushed the U.S. into war in Iraq, the fact is that Israel has kept a safe (albeit supportive) distance from American policy there–until now. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu explicitly endorsed Kurdish
This weekend’s centenary anniversary of the assassination of Austrian Archduke Prince Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, Bosnia–then a province of the doomed Austro-Hungarian empire–marked the event that triggered the greatest, most horrible occurrence of all time up to that point: World War
Pro-Russian forces in east Ukraine released four of the eight members of the Organization for the Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) captured over a month ago. The separatists also agreed to hold more peace talks as President Petro Poroshenko
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Many of the unaccompanied minors flooding across the border are refugees fleeing violence in their Central American home countries and should be treated as such, according to Texas Republican Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee. “Yes, in some instances
GENEVA (AP) — More than 1,000 people, the vast majority of them civilians, have been killed in Iraq this month as Sunni insurgents overtook key areas of the country, the United Nations said Tuesday. The new findings from the U.N.
The father of a British man who left to fight in Syria said on Saturday he “wants to cry” after his son appeared in an online video aimed at recruiting jihadists. Ahmed Muthana identified the man in the 13-minute video,
For those who generally prefer the company of trees over the company of people, Muir Woods is a transportive place to visit. If you get here right at sunrise, you will have the 500 acres pretty much to yourself, except
British Foreign Secretary William Hague has confirmed that UK troops will not return to Iraq, despite the recent military gains made by Sunni insurgents. According to the Daily Express Hague said there was “no question” of sending in British combat
A man walked away from a crime scene wearing his wife’s clothing after murdering her in a so-called ‘honour killing’. Ahmed Al-Khatib was caught on CCTV wearing Rania Alayed’s clothes to give the impression that she was still alive. The
ISTANBUL, June 2 (Reuters) – Turkey’s peace talks with Kurdish rebels are advancing despite recent unrest in the southeast, representatives of both sides said, and could boost Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan’s hopes of becoming president. Erdogan is widely expected to
HARRISON, N.J. (AP) — Fabian Johnson scored his first international goal, Clint Dempsey doubled the lead off a defensive lapse and the United States beat Turkey 2-1 Sunday in the second of three World Cup warm-up matches for the Americans
A Turkish court on Thursday handed a 15-month jail term to a teacher over Twitter posts deemed religiously offensive, local media reported on Thursday. The court in the eastern city of Mus ruled that the man, identified as Ertan P.,
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday followers of an Islamic cleric with whom he’s locked in a power struggle might leak a video about him and his family to smear him before an August presidential
Virginia State Senator Richard Black (R-Loudon County) sent a letter to Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, thanking him for his “heroic” acts in fighting the Syrian opposition forces. The text of the letter, proudly displayed by Assad on his Facebook page,
PBS is set to air a documentary Tuesday describing the US-backed training and arming of Syrian opposition forces. The purpose of US involvement in the region, while not clearly and overtly stated by the Obama administration, is seemingly to counter
A Turkish court issued arrest warrants on Monday for four former top Israel Defense Forces (IDF) commanders, reports the Jerusalem Post. The arrest warrants were issued in connection with the May 2010 IDF raid on a blockade-running ship, the Mavi Marmara, in
CANNES, France (AP) — Cannes doesn’t in any way resemble the site of roiling class conflict. It’s a French Riviera playground for the 1 percent, a sun-dappled land of velvet ropes. Yet at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, which came
THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — An earthquake beneath the sea shook northern Greece and western Turkey Saturday, with 266 people reportedly injured in Turkey. The quake struck at 12:25 p.m. local time (0925 GMT) southwest of the Greek island of Samothraki,
A student who was caught with €20,000 in cash hidden in her underwear on a flight to Turkey has denied attempting to fund terrorism. Nawal Masaad, 26, stands accused of attempting to smuggle the money through London’s Heathrow Airport en
Ankara, May 16 (QNA) – An advisor to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has apologized after a photograph emerged online on Thursday which appeared to show him kicking a protester, claimed to be a relative of a victim in
Turkey’s Islamist Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan screamed an anti-Israel slur at a Turkish mine disaster protester, The Algemeiner reported on Thursday. “Why are you running away from me, Israeli sperm,” Erdogan said to a protester, using a Turkish word that is
SOMA Turkey (Reuters) – Loudspeakers broadcast the names of the dead as rows of graves were filled in this close-knit Turkish mining town on Thursday, while thousands protested in major cities as grief turned to anger following the country’s deadliest
LONDON, May 15 (UPI) —Foreign ministers from 11 Western and Arab nations who call themselves the “London 11,” or Friends of the Syrian People, are meeting Thursday in London to discuss support to the Syrian opposition. The British Foreign Office
An adviser to Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been caught on camera kicking a protester as Turkish forces cracked down on demonstrators following the collapse of a mine in Soma, 350 miles west of Ankara. Around 3000 anti-privatisation
