Turkey officially withdraws from treaty protecting women
He ended the country's participation in the Council of Europe's Istanbul Convention through a surprise overnight decree in March, prompting condemnation from women's rights groups and western countries.
Turkey seeks U.S. support to maintain troops in Afghanistan
Speaking at the end of a NATO summit on Monday, Erdogan also said Turkey was seeking Pakistan and Hungary's involvement in a new mission in Afghanistan following the departure of U.S.-led NATO force.
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News Wrap: DOJ announces probe into Louisville police, citing Breonna Taylor case
In our news wrap Monday, a year after police shot and killed Breonna Taylor during a raid of her home, the U.S. Justice Department is launching a full-scale review of police tactics in Louisville, Kentucky. Meanwhile, the U.S. Supreme Court…
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For victims of the Armenian genocide, Biden designation a ‘momentous occasion’
President Biden recognized the mass killings of Armenians more than a century ago as genocide, in a test of America’s somewhat strained relationship with Turkey. For more on the significance of Biden's statement, Alex Hinton, Director of Rutgers University’s Center…
With the acknowledgement, Biden followed through on a campaign promise he made a year ago Saturday — the annual commemoration of Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day — to recognize that the events of 1915 to 1923 were a deliberate effort to…
The detentions came amid growing government intolerance toward the LGBT community in Turkey. The 12 students were detained Thursday after they displayed the flags of the LGBT rights movements during a protest at Istanbul's prestigious Bogazici University.
Erdogan also took aim at a U.S. State Department statement which deplored the deaths but said the United States would condemn the deaths "in the strongest possible terms" if it is confirmed that they died at the hands of the…
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan unveiled an ambitious 10-year space program that includes missions to the moon, sending Turkish astronauts into space and developing internationally viable satellite systems.
Some of the protests have erupted into clashes between police and demonstrators and hundreds of people have been detained.
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