International Business Times | Turkey Considering Sending Troops Into Syria To Fight Syrian Kurds, ISIS: Report International Business Times Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has called for the life imprisonment of an editor who published footage allegedly showing weapons being smuggled to Islamists in Syria. In this photo, Erdoğan adjusts his sunglasses before a wreath-laying ... Turkey Plans to Invade Syria, But To Stop The Kurds, Not ISIS Turkey will 'never allow' Kurdish state in Syria warns Erdogan Did Turkey help ISIS grab Anbar as well? |
BBC News | Turkey police fire rubber pellets at gay pride rally BBC News Turkey police fire rubber pellets at gay pride rally. 3 minutes ago. Turkish police have used water cannons, tear gas and rubber bullets to clear a gay pride rally from Istanbul's central square. Between 100 and 200 marchers were chased away from ... PHOTOS: Police in Turkey use tear gas to break up gay pride parade Turkish police fire pepper spray at gay pride parade Turkish Police Break Up Gay Pride Parade With Rubber Bullets |
New York Times | In Turkey, Tear Gas and Water Cannons Prevent a Parade New York Times Homosexuality is not illegal in Turkey as it is in many other Muslim countries, but it is still widely considered a taboo. The annual event had been permitted in Istanbul over previous years, amassing thousands of participants that reach beyond Turkey ... Gay pride worldwide |
Huffington Post | Pit Bull Love Love LOVES Turkey Chick And Her Wee Pals Huffington Post This pit bull adores baby birds in the best way possible. Curious about a new turkey chick, the female pit bull is let into a cage of young fowl in this YouTube video posted June 24. She lets them walk on her back and head and she licks one little baby ... Pit bull gets in a cage full of turkey chicks (but it doesn't end how you ... |
DefenseNews.com | Turkey Likely To Soften Foreign Policy DefenseNews.com ANKARA — Turkey's inconclusive June 7 parliamentary elections have not only deprived the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) of its parliamentary majority for the first time since 2002, but have also forced the Islamist party to review its ... |
Financial Times | Israel sea-and-land route for Turkey snaps shut Financial Times Turkey severed diplomatic ties with Israel in 2011 when relations soured after Israeli commandos stormed a flotilla of Turkish ships heading for the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip in 2010, causing the deaths of 10 pro-Palestinian activists on board. Attempts ... |
Breitbart News | Why many Kurds in Turkey are willing to die in Syria's border towns Washington Post (blog) Initial reports suggested dozens died in the fighting, including numerous civilians, with Syrian Kurdish militias forces either killing, capturing, or cornering most of the Islamic State militants. Significantly, tensions also flared in neighboring ... Report: Turkey Denies ISIS Attacked Kobani from Within Its Borders Pro-Kurdish party in Turkey: Kobani 'massacre' shows how Turkey supports ISIS Pro-Kurdish party says Kobani 'massacre' reflects Turkey support for Islamic State |
Wall Street Journal | Coalition dreaming The Economist THE inauguration of Turkey's new parliament on June 23rd was a heady day for this wobbly democracy. Pious Muslim women were able to take the oath with their heads covered for the first time without being harassed by secular dinosaurs. Three Armenians ... Turkey's Diverse Parliament Seeks to End Political Uncertainty Turkey Political Crisis Deepens Turkey's new parliament convenes amid coalition search |
Hurriyet Daily News | Coalition the best antidote to authoritarian rule in Turkey Hurriyet Daily News This simply is not the case for a great majority of voters not only in Turkey but also in the United States, the United Kingdom and other consolidated Western democracies. For some reason, we'd like to assume that voters basically consider their ... |
Gatestone Institute | Turkey and Israel: Starting Over? Gatestone Institute For Turkey's Islamist government, breaking up with Israel, a credible regional ally until 2009, was a calculated move. Then Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's famous Davos tirade against Israel's then President Shimon Peres was the beginning of ... |