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Turkish FM Says US Sanctions against Iran “Dangerous”: Anadolu

Turkey foreign minister criticized Tuesday the US renewal of sanctions on Iran’s oil and shipping industries, saying it was dangerous to isolate Iran and unfair to punish its people, Anadolu news agency reported. Mevlut Cavusoglu’s comments to reporters in Japan came a day after Washington reimposed sanctions, abandoning a 2015 ...

November 6, 2018

Middle East

Saudi Sent ‘Cover-up Team’ to Dispose Khashoggi Body

Saudi Arabia sent a toxicologist and a chemicals expert to Istanbul to cover up the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi before the Turkish police searched the kingdom’s consulate, a senior Turkish official said on Monday. “We believe that the two individuals came to Turkey for the sole purpose of covering ...

November 5, 2018

World

Norway Summons Saudi Ambassador Over Khashoggi Case

The development came days after the Saudi prosecutor-general acknowledged that the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist, had been plotted in advance. Riyadh maintains that the assassination was a rogue operation, and has nothing to do with the royal family. Norway summoned the Saudi ambassador on Thursday over ...

November 2, 2018

Middle East

Erdogan advisor Confirms Khashoggi’s Body ‘Dissolved’ after Murder

The body of journalist Jamal Khashoggi was “dissolved” after he was murdered and dismembered in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul a month ago, an advisor to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday. The remarks echoed what a Turkish official had told the Washington Post — for which Khashoggi was ...

November 2, 2018

Middle East

US CENTCOM: SDF Suspends Anti-ISIL Offensive over Attacks by Turkey in Syria

The US Central Command said that the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have suspended their fight against the ISIL terror group due to attacks on them by Turkey in the north of Syria. “The Syrian Democratic Forces have temporarily suspended offensive actions against ISIS in response to cross border attacks ...

November 2, 2018

Middle East

Trump, Erdogan Discuss Syria in Phone Call: Turkish Presidency

US President Donald Trump and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan discussed the Syrian crisis during a phone call on Thursday, the Turkish presidency said in a statement. The statement was released not long after it was announced that Turkish and American troops had begun conducting joint patrols in the ...

November 1, 2018

Middle East

Saudis Dissolved Khashoggi’s Body by Acid: Report

A Turkish official has told the Washington Post that slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s body was dissolved in acid on the grounds of the Saudi Consulate or at the nearby residence of the Saudi consul general. Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist and a critic of Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler Crown ...

November 1, 2018

World

Pompeo: Khashoggi Murder Violated Int’l Law, But We Want to Preserve Alliance with Saudi

As he said that the murder of Journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul violated international law, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said it clear: “We want to preserve alliance with Riyadh.” “It’s an awful thing that took place,” Pompeo told conservative talk show host Brian Kilmeade. ...

November 1, 2018

Middle East

Turkey: Khashoggi Murder Not Possible without Orders from Senior Positions

The killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi could not have been carried out without orders from someone in a senior position, the spokesman for Turkey’s ruling AK Party said on Wednesday. Speaking to reporters in Ankara, Omer Celik said Turkey would not let anyone cover up Khashoggi’s killing, and added ...

November 1, 2018

Middle East

Khashoggi Strangled and Dismembered in Consulate, Turkey Prosecutor Says

Journalist Jamal Khashoggi was strangled as soon as he entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul and then dismembered as part of a premeditated plan, Turkey’s chief prosecutor said Wednesday, making details of the murder public for the first time. The revelations came just hours after Saudi Arabia’s chief prosecutor left ...

October 31, 2018