A pro-Kurdish lawmaker has been temporarily suspended from the Turkish parliament for saying the word “genocide” during heated discussions on changes to the constitution, state media said on Friday. Member of parliament for the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Garo Paylan said four communities had been lost and “driven from these ...
Turkey has arrested two Chinese nationals of Uighur origin in connection with a mass shooting in a nightclub in Istanbul on New Year’s Eve claimed by the Takfiri ISIL group, media reports said. The suspects, named as Omar Asim and Abuliezi Abuduhamiti, were arrested on charges of “being members of ...
