News International CEO Rebekah Brooks, the former editor of British tabloid News of the World, announced her resignation Friday after weeks of mounting pressure. Brooks oversaw the now-shuttered newspaper from 2000 to 2003, when it allegedly hacked into subjects' cellphones. Brooks expressed a feeling of "deep responsibility for the people we have hurt" in a...
Thousands of Syrians have fled to neighboring Turkey to escape the fighting between anti-government protesters and Syrian security forces, with more crossing the border every day. As of Tuesday, an estimated 8,500 refugees have taken up residence in tent cities in the southern Turkish border province of Hatay ...
An estimated 8,500 refugees from Syria had entered tent cities in southern Turkey by mid-June, and thousands more have fled to Lebanon, to escape the Syrian government's crackdown on the opposition.
... actively engage in the region, according to Barkey. But the region's instability is now impacting Turkey directly, with thousands of Syrians having fled to Turkey to escape the fighting in their country between anti-government protesters and forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad. For Turkey, that was a ...
JEFFREY BROWN: Turkey's former justice minister visited the camps today, and said his nation would continue its open-border policy. SADULLAH ERGIN, former Turkish justice minister (through translator): We are doing every humanitarian thing that is necessary for the people who have sought asylum here and had to come ...
... here for some history on the event. Here's footage of last year's event. Apple and alternate Cider, both 21-week old, 45-pound turkeys were pardoned. The turkeys' names were selected from submissions from California schoolchildren. They will live out their days on George Washington's Mount Vernon ...
Last year, President Obama pardoned a turkey named Courage, above, who got a trip to Disneyland. This year's turkey will go to George Washington's Mount Vernon Estate in Virginia. Photo by Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images. This holiday week seems to be regular fare for President Obama and ...
... with the accession criteria," said EU Commissioner for Enlargement Stefan Fuele in a statement. President Obama called Erdogan on Sunday, and "acknowledged the vibrancy of Turkey's democracy as reflected in the turnout for the referendum," according to the White House press office. About 77 percent of Turkey's voting ...
... Davos after this, because you don't let me speak. KWAME HOLMAN: This week, despite the tensions with Israel and the U.S., Erdogan said Turkey wasn't turning away from its Western orientation. At the forum in Istanbul, he said those who allege that Turkey has broken away from ...
In other news Thursday, there were services in Turkey for those killed in the Israeli sea raid off Gaza and delegates at a peace conference in Kabul agreed on the need to reach out to the Taliban to further the peace process.
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