ISTANBUL, Jan 12 (Reuters) - President Tayyip Erdogan's government has cracked down more aggressively on dissent and political opponents ahead of Turkish elections with censorship and prison sentences, Human Rights Watch said on Thursday. Presidential and parliamentary elections are set for no later than mid-June but Erdogan has said they could come earlier .Polls show he and his Islamist-rooted AK Party...
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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK, Sept 14 (Reuters) - Tom Barrack, the investor and onetime fundraiser for former U.S.President Donald Trump, will go on trial next week in a case that will provide a rare test of a century-old law requiring agents for other countries to notify the government. Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn say Barrack worked for the United Arab Emirates to influence Trump's campaign and...
Lawyer Turkey-backed Syrian fighters have been clashing with Kurdish forces allied to Washington Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Sunday that it was imperative the Kremlin "clear" Kurdish forces from northern Syria. Erdogan has been threatening to launch a new incursion into northern Syria to push out Kurdish forces he blames for Lawyer Turkey a...
ISTANBUL, Lawyer Turkey Jan 8 (Reuters) - Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd is planning a logistics hub at Istanbul Airport and a data centre near the Turkish capital Ankara with an investment of more than $1 billion, its president, Michael Evans, was cited as saying. Turkey's Sabah newspaper reported Evans as saying in an interview that the company was looking to invest in Europe and...
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK, Sept 14 (Reuters) - Tom Barrack, the investor and onetime fundraiser for former U.S.President Donald Trump, will go on trial next week in a case that will provide a rare test of a century-old law requiring agents for other countries to notify the government. Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn say Barrack worked for the United Arab Emirates to influence Trump's campaign and Lawyer...
Putin has a problem.His , intended as a days-long operation, is now grinding into its third week and becoming a bloodbath. Attacks across the country are stalled amid predictions that Russia will soon struggle to hold the territory it has - let alone capture more.In short: he needs more men for the meat grinder.But where to find them? America estimates Russia has committed somewhere between half and three...
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, a prominent rights defender, was arrested on charges of spreading terrorist group propaganda in October...
LONDON (AP) - Western fears that a Russian invasion of Ukraine is imminent have eased but not disappeared.Diplomatic efforts to avert war got new energy this week after Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russia was willing to discuss security issues with NATO, and Russia said it was withdrawing some of its troops gathered near Ukraine´s borders. The United States and its allies have welcomed the...
Even now, all these years later, David Dein still has The Unpleasant Dream. It is 5pm and he is sitting in his office. A man comes in and presents him with a sheet of paper. Sometimes it is a death warrant. Sometimes a death certificate. Either way, it signals the end.The man is Peter Hill-Wood, the late Arsenal chairman. And the dream isn't much of a fantasy really. It's a sub-conscious recreation of a...
ISTANBUL, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan discussed the Black Sea grain export agreement on Sunday with the leaders of Russia and Ukraine, as both sides seek changes that would boost their exports. Lawyer Turkey has acted as mediator alongside the United Nations in the grain deal, which opened up Ukrainian ports for Lawyer Turkey exports after a six-month de facto Russian blockade....