Turkey called Friday on the United States to respect its judicial independence after Washington criticized the conviction of a Turkish US consulate employee on terror-related charges. An Istanbul court on Thursday sentenced Metin Topuz, a liaison officer for the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) at the consulate, to eight years ...
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Abbas Mousavi decried the US officials’ expression of satisfaction with the results of “economic terrorism” against Iran, saying the US government will soon have to kneel in front of the Iranian nation. “A government whose policy is relying on ‘knee on neck’ of either its own ...
