Russian warships carrying scores of military trucks were seen passing through a strait in yesterday morning - and could be on their way to .The Tsugaru Strait between the Sea of Japan and the Pacific Ocean separates Honshu and Hokkaido, the country's two biggest islands. Russia has suffered catastrophic losses, including up to one-fifth of its troops, fuelling speculation Putin could send reinforcements...
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By Rowena Edwards Sept 1 (Reuters) - Oil firms operating in Kurdistan have asked the United States to help defuse an upsurge in tension between Iraq's central government and the semi-autonomous region, according to a letter seen by Reuters and three sources. They say intervention is needed to ensure oil continues to flow from the north of Iraq to Turkey to prevent Turkey having to increase oil shipments...
ISTANBUL, Jan 11 (Reuters) - A Turkish court sentenced the head of the Turkish Medical Association (TTB) to more than two years in prison for terrorism propaganda on Wednesday but ruled she should be released after being in detention since October, human rights activists said. Sebnem Korur Fincanci, Turkish Lawyer Turkish a prominent rights defender, was arrested on charges of spreading terrorist group...
ANKARA, Turkey Lawyer Law Firm (AP) - A Turkish court on Monday released pop star Gulsen from jail but placed her on house arrest as she awaits trial on charges of "inciting hatred and enmity" for Lawyer Law Firm Turkish a joke she made about Turkey´s religious schools. Last week, the 46-year-old singer and songwriter, whose full name is Gulsen Colakoglu, was taken away from her home in Istanbul for...
MOSCOW, Dec 12 (Reuters) - Russia on Monday accused the United States of not taking a constructive approach to diplomatic talks in Istanbul, but said the Turkish city was a convenient place for such contacts to take place. A meeting between U.S.Central Intelligence Agency Director William Burns and Sergei Naryshkin , head of Russia's SVR foreign intelligence service, in Ankara last month triggered...
A Russian billionaire was criminally charged in New York with violating U.S. sanctions in an indictment unsealed Thursday that also charges three others in a scheme to ensure his child was born in the United States.The Russian oligarch, Oleg Deripaska, 52, has faced economic sanctions since 2018, when he was designated for them by the U.S. Treasury Department, which said he had acted for or on behalf of a...
Wout Weghorst has flown out of Istanbul to travel to England ahead of joining Manchester United on loan until the end of the season.The forward was filmed arriving at a Turkish airport prior to boarding his private plane to take him to Manchester.This comes after United agreed to make a direct payment of £2.5m to Besiktas to take Wout Weghorst on loan until the end of the season.✈️(ÖZEL)...
ANKARA, Dec 24 (Reuters) - A Turkish court ordered the release of a journalist held on remand under the country's new disinformation law after his lawyer objected to his detention, he said. Sinan Aygul became the first person to be jailed pending trial under the law, approved by parliament two months ago, that the government says is aimed at protecting the public, but which critics say could be abused to...
A recent wave of arrests targeted journalists working for Kurdish media outlets A new law gives Turkey fresh ammunition to censor the media and silence dissent ahead of elections in which President Recep Tayyip Erdogan plans to prolong his two decades in office, journalists and activists say. Since 2014, when Erdogan became president, tens of thousands of people, from high-school teens to a...
The 1988 downing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie in Scotland remains the worst terrorist attack in British history A Libyan man accused of making the bomb that destroyed a Pan Am flight over Scotland in 1988, killing 270 people, has been taken into US custody, authorities said on Sunday. Abu Agila Mohammad Masud was charged by the United States two years ago for the Lockerbie bombing -- in...