Turkey’s main opposition party and its electoral partner pulled off a stunning upset of the governing Justice and Development Party (AKP) and its leader, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in local elections on March 31. Voters in Ankara, the capital, and Istanbul, Turkey’s industrial and economic center, opted for candidates from the Republican People’s Party (CHP) rather than...
Turkish President Erdogan’s visit to Russia next week will see the two Great Powers take their strategic partnership to the next level in an increasingly multipolar and complex world. The Turkish leader will arrive in the Russian capital next Monday on 8 April for the upcoming session of the High-Level Russian-Turkish Cooperation Council, which is an...
India’s claim that one of its fighter pilots shot down a Pakistani F-16 fighter jet in an aerial battle between the two nuclear powers in February appears to be wrong. Two senior U.S. defense officials with direct knowledge of the situation told Foreign Policy that U.S. personnel recently counted Islamabad’s F-16s and found none missing. The findings...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday said Israel has no rights over the occupied Golan Heights. “Under UN resolutions, Israel cannot lay claim on even a small bit of the Golan Heights,” Erdogan said at an election rally in Turkey’s central province of Konya, according to Anadolu. He added: Trump’s remarks about the Golan Heights could...
Renowned Islamic scholar Mufti Taqi Usmani survived an assassination attempt on Friday when he was attacked by gunmen near Neepa Chowrangi on Friday. According to reports, two Darul Uloom Korangi cars came under attack in Karachi which killed two people and injured as many. The attack took place in the remits of Aziz Bhatti Police...
‘World must break its silence over Islamophobic hatred,’ says presidential spokesman Turkey is urging the world to stop “Islamophobic fascist terrorism” after armed terrorist attacks on two mosques in New Zealand early Friday which left at least 49 people dead. “Attacks on two mosques in New Zealand show the point Islamophobia and Muslim hostility reached,” Ibrahim Kalin, Turkey’s...
To express solidarity with the victims of terror attack on Christchurch mosques, Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern on Saturday wore a hijab and donned black clothes.Mourners gathered across New Zealand and the globe to honour the worshippers, who were defenceless when they were shot at by Australian citizen Brenton Tarrant. Jacinda Arden arrived...
U.S. President Donald Trump’s 2020 defense budget proposal allocates $300 million to fund the terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK)’s Syrian front, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), under the guise of fighting Daesh, signaling Washington’s ongoing support for terrorists in Syria despite Trump’s decision to pull out all U.S. troops from the war-torn country. The Pentagon...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in full campaign mode ahead of 9 April polls, on Sunday said Israel “was not a state of all its citizens” in a reference to the country’s Arab population. The prime minister, in comments on Instagram, went on to say all citizens, including Arabs, had equal rights, but referred to a...
On Feb. 14, an Indian paramilitary convoy was attacked in Pulwama in India-administered Kashmir, resulting in the death of 40 Indian officers. The Pakistan-based militant group Jaish-e-Muhammad soon claimed responsibility. In retaliation, the Indian Air Force carried out an airstrike on an alleged militant training camp in Balakot in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Indian Foreign...