Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday rejected a European Court of Human Rights’ ruling that Kurdish leader Selahattin Demirtas should be released, saying Turkey was not bound by the court’s decisions. Demirtas, a former co-chief of the leftist pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), has been imprisoned since November 2016 ...
The Kremlin on Tuesday denounced interference in the election for a new Interpol president after critics including US senators objected to a Russian becoming chief of the global police body. “This is interference in the election process of sorts, in the election to an international organization,” President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman ...
