Turkey said on Thursday the Iraqi Kurdish offer for last month’s referendum on ‘independence’ to be frozen is “not enough,” instead urging the Arbil government to cancel the vote. “It is an important move that the northern Iraqi administration takes a step back but it is not enough. This referendum ...
Turkish police on Thursday detained a businessman who is one of the country’s leading civil society figures, reports said, raising fresh alarm over freedom of expression under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Osman Kavala was detained at Istanbul’s Ataturk airport after flying in from the southern city of Gaziantep, the Dogan ...
