Tag: Turkey

As I write, we have just received news of what we believe to be the 29th Tibetan in the past month to set fire to themselves in protest at Chinese ...

Despite concrete barricades and a heavy military presence in the Egyptian capital Cairo, opposition leaders say they will keep up the pressure on the president to cancel Saturday's constitutional referendum. ...

HSBC has confirmed it is to pay US authorities $1.9bn (£1.2bn) in a settlement over money laundering, the largest paid in such a case. The UK-based bank was alleged to ...

Chancellor Merkel's cabinet on Thursday approved a measure to send Patriot air defense missiles to Turkey as part of a NATO mission to prevent violence from spilling over from across Syrian border. Once approved ...

Gonzalo Alvarez, who had just arrived in Cancun for two weeks of revelry linked to a major milestone in the Mayan calendar, seemed reasonably cheerful for a man about to ...

Young Turkish painter İhsan Oturmak has been selected for the residence program of Cité Internationale des Arts.  Located in Paris, Cité Internationale des Arts gives 350 artists, whom it accommodates ...

There are sixty important maladies of the spiritual heart. One of the malady is ostentation (riyâ). “Riyâ” means to present something in a manner opposite to its true nature. In ...

Afghan women victims of violence are still being failed by the justice system, according to a new UN report. Although there had been some progress in implementing a 2009 anti-violence ...

Palestinian President Abbas delivered a speech at Turkish parliament as part of a visit in Ankara. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas delivered a speech at the Turkish parliament as part of a visit ...

Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan said Turkey has always supported peace, dialogue and consensus. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that stability and peace of the region was related with Turkey's prosperity ...