Hans-Georg Maassen, Germany’s domestic intelligence chief said in an ARD TV interview on Jan. 11 that Turkey was a “key country” in countering the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) “and other terrorist organizations” because “well over 90 percent” of r
Millions rallied in Paris on Jan. 11, in protest at the Jan. 7 killings in which two terrorists with radical Islamist links killed 12 people in a raid on the French weekly satire magazine Charlie Hebdo.
It is clear by now that the terrorists who raided Charlie Hebdo on Jan. 7, killing 12 people and later turning Paris and its surroundings into a battlefield - taking lives and hostages - have links to radical Islamist organizations in the Middle East.
At least 12 people were killed in the terrorist attack in Paris on Jan. 7, as gunmen raided the office of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
Syria’s ambassador to the United Nations, Bashar Jaafari, has written a letter to the United Nations Security Council as reported by agencies on Jan. 5 to complain about some serious violations of its borders.
An investigative commission at Turkey’s Parliament saw no need for the trial of four former ministers of the ruling party over corruption allegations, thanks to the dominant votes of the AK Parti MPs
An Investigation Commission looking into the corruption allegations against four former ministers of the ruling Justice and Development Party is scheduled to hold a critical vote today
This year and the next few months are going to be critical regarding the future of Turkey’s critical Kurdish problem.
The parliamentary elections scheduled for June is likely to be the major political issue of Turkey in 2015
