Turkish authorities suspended more than 12,000 police officers over alleged links to Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, accused of masterminding the July failed coup, the police headquarters said on Tuesday. Of the 12,801 suspended from duty as part of the investigation into the coup attempt, 2,523 were police chiefs, the police ...
Head of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the upper house of the Russian parliament, Konstantin Kosachev, said Monday the an opportunity to reach a peaceful agreement in Syria has been lost because of the US position, which lies in the administration’s insistence on defending the use of force. “Russia has ...