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Pakistani court declares FETO a terror group

Turkey’s new regional security role, 70 years late

HSBC to divest from Israeli arms manufacturerJERUSALEM - Banking giant HSBC has announced plans to divest from a major Israeli arms manufacturer following pressure from pro-Palestine activists, the London-based Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) said in a Friday statement.“After tireless campaigning by members of PSC and other organizations, HSBC bank has announced

that it has fully divested from Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit,” the rights group said.According to PSC, more than 24,000 people sent emails to HSBC voicing concern over its investment in Israel’s Elbit Systems and other firms known to supply weapons to Israel’s military.Forty HSBC...

By Deniz Cicek Palabiyik

ANKARA - Turkish customs seized 1.5 tons (3,000 pounds) of hashish in an anti-drug operation at the Greek border, the country’s Trade Ministry

said on Friday.In a written statement, the ministry said that guards found the hashish in a tractor-trailer transporting soybeans at the Ipsala border gate in the northwestern Edirne province.

Acting on a tip, the squads discovered the drugs in 152 sacks -- 10 kilograms (22 pounds) each -- hidden among the sacks filled with soybeans, the ministry said.It has been the largest...

By Islamuddin Sajid

ISLAMABAD - Supreme Court of Pakistan on Friday ordered the government to declare the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO) a terror group and ban its affiliated schools in the

country.FETO and its U.S.-based leader Fetullah Gulen orchestrated the defeated coup of July 15, 2016 in Turkey, which left 251 people martyred and nearly 2,200 injured. Ankara accuses FETO of being behind...

By Dr. Adam McConnel

ISTANBUL - “… the British Ambassador’s private secretary asked urgently that his chief might see the Secretary of State to deliver ‘a blue piece of paper,’ the trade name for a formal and important message from His Majesty’s Government…. Henderson shortly received not one but two documents. They were

shockers. British aid to Greece and Turkey would end in six weeks…. The British could no longer be of substantial help in either. His Majesty’s Government devoutly hoped that we could assume the burden in both Greece and Turkey.”-- Former US Secretary of State Dean Acheson, recounting the events of 21 February 1947, in his memoir “Present at the Creation”...

By Jeyhun Aliyev

ANKARA - Bahrain announced early Friday that it is reopening its embassy in Syria’s capital Damascus.The move follows a seven-year hiatus, the country’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement on its website.Noting the keenness of Bahrain on the continuation of relations with Syria, the ministry said the Syrian embassy in Bahrain’s capital of Manama is also operational and

flights between the two countries are set to resume.In 2011, the Kingdom of Bahrain closed its embassy in Damascus following the Syrian uprising and subsequent crackdown on protesters by the Bashar al-Assad regime.The move by Bahrain comes hours after the United Arab Emirates’ decision to reopen its embassy in Damascus.According to media reports, restoration work is now underway at the embassy...

By Fatih Hafiz Mehmet

ANKARA - Syria’s Assad regime is running a “psychological” operation, said Turkey’s president on Friday, amid reports of a deployment of regime troops to a key northern city.“We know that Syria is in a psychological action. We know that there is

a situation like waving their own [regime] flag there. But there is nothing definite there yet,” Recep Tayyip Erdogan said, responding to reports of regime forces entering the northern city of Manbij in coordination with the YPG/PKK terror group.Speaking to reporters in Istanbul after Friday prayers, Erdogan... MORE DETAILSMORE DETAILS

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