Issued on: 26/06/2022 – 20:50 Turkish police on Sunday broke up a banned Pride march in Istanbul, detaining more than 200 demonstrators and an AFP photographer, journalists and organisers reported. The governor’s office had forbidden the march around Taksim Square in the heart of Istanbul, but protesters gathered nearby under heavy police presence earlier than
Issued on: 23/06/2022 – 15:09Modified: 23/06/2022 – 15:12 Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on Thursday replaced its intelligence chief Hossein Taeb, who had held the position for more than 12 years, the Guards said in a statement. “The Guards’ chief Major General Hossein Salami appointed General Mohammad Kazemi as the new head of the IRGC
Issued on: 22/06/2022 – 22:48 Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman arrived in Turkey for the first time in years on Wednesday for talks with President Tayyip Erdogan aimed at fully normalising ties that were ruptured after the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The visit marks a step in efforts by the de facto
Issued on: 18/06/2022 – 20:41 Around 50,000 Ukrainians have taken refuge from the war in Turkey, including more than 1,000 orphans and foster children. Some of them have gone to the coastal city of Antalya, that was already home to a Ukrainian and Russian population before the conflict began. Here FRANCE 24 met children who
Andrey Melnichenko was in a bind. Squeezed by European sanctions targeting Russian billionaires, one of Russia’s richest men needed a safe jurisdiction to protect the businesses he’d built. He found it in the United Arab Emirates. Moscow-based coal producer SUEK and Zug, Switzerland-based fertilizer firm EuroChem, both founded by Melnichenko, are opening local trading units
Issued on: 17/05/2022 – 17:27 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has expressed strong views against Sweden and Finland’s entry into NATO. He has accused the two Nordic countries, in particular Sweden, of serving as a refuge for the “terrorists” of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, Ankara’s bête noire. However, will Turkey go all way and block the
Ankara – Before traveling to Moscow last week, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres stopped over in Ankara to meet Recep Tayyip Erdogan and praise the Turkish leader’s diplomatic efforts to end the war in Ukraine. Less than two hours after the two shook hands, a big part of the goodwill that Ankara has engendered in the
Issued on: 22/04/2022 – 18:11 One of Turkey’s most famous prisoners made his final appeal for freedom on Friday, at the culmination of a years-long trial that has come to define Ankara’s tense ties with Western allies in the wake of a failed 2016 coup. Paris-born activist and philanthropist Osman Kavala was a relative unknown
British intelligence says advisers to Russias President Vladimir Putin fear telling him the truth about his “failing” and “enormously misjudged” intrusion of Ukraine. US officials meanwhile say Putin feels “deceived” by his military on wars development and the effect of sanctions. Western intelligence has actually been keen to highlight Russias failures in the war. Follow
The United States State Department issued a travel advisory on Tuesday alerting that Moscow “may single out and detain United States people in Russia” and repeating earlier cautions for Americans not to travel to the nation. Follow our live blog site for the newest advancements. Released on: 30/03/2022 – 06:53 6:58 am: Residential areas of
