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GENEVA-Anadolu Agency Alamy Photo All countries should work together in the fight against xenophobia and Islamophobia, Turkish deputy foreign minister said on Feb. 26, referring to a recent racist terror attack in Germany.  Faruk Kaymakçı spoke during the high-level section of the 43rd session of the Human Rights Council at…

ANKARA A deputy from the People's Democratic Party (HDP) on Feb. 25 called for peace between Azerbaijan and Armenia.  Paylan, himself being of Armenian descent, proposed to establish "justice and reality commissions" related to "disasters" between the two countries. His remarks came on the 28th anniversary of the Khojaly massacre that…

ANKARA - Anadolu Agency Turkey condemned on Feb. 26 the Khojaly massacre that saw killings of hundreds of Azerbaijani citizens at the hands of Armenian forces, marking the event's 28th anniversary. As many as 613 innocent Azerbaijani citizens including 106 women, 63 children and 70 elders were indiscriminately killed, with…

BAKU - Anadolu Agency Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Feb. 25 the Upper Karabakh is as much Turkey's issue as it is Azerbaijan's. "It is our greatest desire to resolve the problem of Upper Karabakh on the basis of Azerbaijan's sovereignty and territorial integrity," Erdoğan said at a…

Roadrunner Approaching the Border Wall: The wall along the US border with Mexico, championed by US ... President Donald Trump, runs through one of the most biologically rich and diverse regions of North America, disrupting animal corridors, their habitats and access to water and food. Photo: Alejandro Prieto, Mexico -…

Former Armenian president Serzh Sargsyan on Tuesday (25 February) goes on trial charged with corruption, nearly two years after he was ousted from power by a popular uprising following a decade in office. Sargsyan, who dominated Armenia in two consecutive terms as president from 2008, resigned in 2018 when his…

Osman Kavala at the Armenian Genocide centennial commemoration near Taksim Square, Istanbul (via Wikimedia Commons)ISTANBUL — The celebrations were short-lived for supporters of Osman Kavala, a prominent cultural philanthropist in Turkey who has spent the last 841 days behind bars. Just hours after an Istanbul court acquitted Kavala and eight…

Hours after he was acquitted by a court and freed after more than two years in jail, a high-profile Turkish philanthropist was rearrested on separate charges in a case that has raised questions about the rule of law in Turkey.  A surprise court decision on Tuesday to drop charges against Osman…

As the Syrian military backed by the Russian air force takes another strategic town in Idlib, thereby inching closer towards the Turkish border, the endgame for Turkey in Syria has begun. The Syrian government has also taken the key highway that links Damascus to Aleppo and secured Aleppo from the…

ANKARA Turkey on Feb. 16 commemorated diplomat Oktar Cirit, who was assassinated on Feb. 16, 1976 in Lebanon’s capital Beirut.  Cirit, Turkey’s first secretary at the Turkish Embassy in Beirut, was killed by the Armenian terrorist organization ASALA, the Turkish Foreign Ministry noted in a Twitter post. The attack was…