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Istanbul (AFP) - Hundreds gathered at Istanbul's main court on Friday to support an opposition politician who faces 17 years in prison for a series of tweets criticising the government. Canan Kaftancioglu, who heads the secular Republican People's Party (CHP…

Annabelle Quince: Welcome to Rear Vision, here on ABC Radio National, this week with me, Annabelle Quince. Today, the second part of our look at the Paris Peace Conference, where in 1919 the leaders of the world gathered to re-draw the geographic and politic…

Mormon polygamist Jacob Kingston goes to trial in July for a scam involving his entire Mormon clan.Kingston is a member of the Order, an organized crime ring and the largest Mormon polygamist sect in all of Utah.He allegedly collecte…

FOR THE third time in its history, the city of Raqqa is in ruins. It was first destroyed by the Persians in the early sixth century when it was known as Callinicum but was rebuilt by the Byzantine emperor Justinian shortly thereafter. The second time it was d…

The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between two South Caucasian republics, Azerbaijan and Armenia, is already over 30 years old. Negotiations toward a settlement face a stalemate that appears difficult, if not impossible, to overcome. The conflict, which has roots …

The album title is the programme in this meeting of remarkable artists brought together to interpret traditional music of Greece, Turkey, Lebanon and Armenia, and to play original songs by Anatolian saz player Cihan Türkolu and lyricist Agathi Dimitroukas.In …

In April 2017 in Damascus, BSNews co-ed Alison Banville filmed the wall (above), commemorating the Syrian journalists killed while reporting on the conflict. Mike Raddie (co-editor) was being interviewed on Syrian national television that day and we both to…

In May 2017, protests in Washington, D.C., against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ended in violence by Turkish security officials. Now, two different groups of anti-Erdogan protesters have brought civil suits against Turkey, and one of those suits rel…

The 19th and 20th centuries were a period of unprecedented change in human history. In 1807, the Napoleonic Wars were raging; in 2007, smartphones were becoming a thing. No other era in human history comes close to matching this rate of change. And in no oth…

VATICAN Turkeys Vatican Embassy on June 13 held a commemoration ceremony for Taha Carm, a Turkish ambassador to Vatican who was killed in 1977 by the Armenian terror group Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide (JCAG). Turkeys current ambassador to the …