As tensions have arisen in recent weeks over conflicting hydrocarbon claims of ownership between Greece and Turkey in the Mediterranean, NATO’s Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg, on 26 August urged restraint and called for dialogue between the two states during a meeting of European Union Defense Ministers.Read More
Amed (Diyarbakır), founded on the banks of the Tigris River, has a heritage that takes in the Hurrian, Hittite, Assyrian, Persian, Roman, Byzantine, Arab and Ottoman empires.Read More
A forty-six-year-old man was killed by Turkish soldiers in the village of Yukarı Çilili (Çiliya Jor). He was the father of six children. His corpse lay in an open field for several hours before it was transported away for an autopsy, said relatives. The incident happened on 4 August.Read More
Progressive Lawyers’ Association (ÇHD) lawyers were sentenced to prison terms of over 159 years on March 20 in Turkey. Ebru Timtik was one of these lawyers.Read More
Erciş is a small town to the east of Turkey, located in the province of Van, near Lake Van.Read More
“ISIS is present in the south of the Libya, especially in the ‘Umm al-Araneb’ region”, Major General Al-Mismari said, the spokesperson for the Libyan National Army (LNA). General Khalifa Haftar heads the LNA.Read More
The water supply in Rojava, including El-Hol Camp and Heseke in north-eastern Syria, was interrupted because Turkey took over the Elok drinking water pumping station.Read More
The Turkish Ministry of National Defense announced that it will hold a joint military exercise in the south of the island of Crete with allied warships on 26 August.Read More
Mele Bextiyar mentioned Turkey’s pressure on the Kurdish people in North Kurdistan.Read More
Unmanned ‘Medium Altitude Long Endurance’ combat aerial vehicles (SIHA) produced by the friends and family companies of president Erdoğan have been supported by many western countries. They have also assisted Turkey in the production process of the SIHA drones.Read More
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