The battle to capture the ISIL Takfiri group’s Syrian bastion Raqa started two days ago, Turkey’s Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said, according to the state-run news agency Anadolu Sunday. Yildirim appeared to contradict comments Saturday from the Kurdish-Arab alliance battling the Takfiris that the push into the northern Syrian city ...
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim’s chief adviser was detained Saturday over suspected links to the movement of US-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen blamed for last year’s failed coup, state media reported. Birol Erdem, a former senior justice ministry official, was taken into custody in Ankara along with his wife ...
