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... shelter to people he calls terrorist soldiers. Despite international concerns about Turkey's attitude towards human rights, NATO has been at pains not to upset Turkey and its unpredictable president. Such is its strategic importance. At a recent news conference, the NATO secretary-general, Jens Stoltenberg, expressed solidarity with Turkey ...
... began, Baghdadi, the leaders of ISIS, made a statement, part of which was devoted to Turkey, in which he asked his followers to move against Turkey because Turkey had become, as he called it, an apostate state and, therefore, attacks against Turkey were warranted. WILLIAM BRANGHAM: Turkey has obviously been ...
... group claimed responsibility, and called the gunman a heroic soldier of the caliphate. The statement said: "The blood of Muslims that is being shed by Turkey's airstrikes and artillery shelling will turn into fire on its territories." Turkey has been a key member of the air campaign against ISIS ...
BEIRUT — The cease-fire agreement brokered by Russia and Turkey and approved by the Syrian government and some of its most powerful rebel opponents is a potential turning point in the Syrian civil war, which has killed hundreds of thousands of people and laid waste to huge parts of the ...
... of a rattling day of violence around the world. Trump appeared to jump ahead of investigators in blaming Islamic terrorists for deadly incidents Monday in Turkey and Germany and vowing anew to eradicate their regional and global networks. He called the brazen shooting of Russia's ambassador to Turkey "a ...
PALM BEACH, Fla. — Jumping ahead of investigators, President-elect Donald Trump is blaming Islamic terrorists for deadly violence in Turkey and Germany and vowing anew to eradicate their regional and global networks. Authorities in both countries were still investigating Monday when Trump issued a pair of statements condemning the attacks ...
... JUDY WOODRUFF: It's been a day of horror in the capital cities of Germany and Turkey. First Berlin, where a truck drove into a crowd of Christmas shoppers, leaving the street full of dead and wounded. We get more now from Ira Spitzer. He's the Berlin bureau ...
The Russian ambassador to Turkey was shot and killed on Monday, a Russia Foreign Ministry spokeswoman confirmed to the Associated Press. AP reported that the attacker shouted “Allahu Akbar” before he fired at Karlov. He was also heard shouting in Turkish, "Don't forget Aleppo! Don't forget Syria!" and ...
... to pardon a turkey. JUDY WOODRUFF: But that's not true. In fact, the Truman Presidential Library says, Truman sometimes indicated to reporters that the turkeys he received were destined for the family dinner table. Truman was actually the first president to receive a turkey from the National Turkey Federation ...
... 1863 (before Thanksgiving was acknowledged as an official U.S. holiday), when President Abraham Lincoln granted his son Tad’s wish to save a holiday turkey’s life. According to Smithsonian Magazine, “Ronald Reagan was the first president to use the word ‘pardon’ in connection with a Thanksgiving turkey,” and ...
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