Turkey on Monday warned the United States not to allow demographic changes in the Syrian city of Raqa after Kurdish-Arab forces launched a US-backed operation to capture the Takfiri bastion. Turkish forces are conspicuously absent from the operation, even though they are present in northern Syria in their own incursion ...
An Istanbul court on Saturday remanded in custody ahead of trial nine staff from the opposition Cumhuriyet newspaper, in an intensifying crackdown a day after the leaders of the country’s main pro-Kurdish party were also jailed. There had been growing international alarm over the use of a state of emergency ...