Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday blasted US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s “unfortunate” comments that she would consider arming Syrian Kurdish fighters, branding her proposal “politically inept.” “It is a very unfortunate statement,” Erdogan said in a televised speech at the presidential palace in Ankara. “To be honest I ...
Turkish police have detained dozens of people including pro-Kurdish party officials, accusing them of spreading propaganda for the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), a security source said on Wednesday. At least 49 people were detained for allegedly spreading “terror propaganda” and “membership of a terror group”, as part of an ...
