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Suu Kyi declared Islamophobe of 2017

5 tons of drugs seized in October

Erdogan slams nuclear powers

Turkey seeks Interpol red notices for 3 ex-prosecutors

Over 11 million children vulnerable in Yemen

By Merve Aydogan

ANKARA - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday criticized the countries, which are defending the concept of prohibiting nuclear weapons despite themselves having thousands of nuclear warheads.“When you look at the mindset defending banning of nuclear warheads or the nuclear weapons today, you could see that one of them has 15,000

and the other has 16,000 nuclear warheads. Another has 12,500, while one has 7,500 nuclear warheads,” Erdogan said, without naming the countries.“The numbers are outrageous. You will have the right to use it wherever you want. But on the other side you tell others, ‘You cannot do it’,” he said at the 4th International Congress of Technology Addiction in Istanbul.The Turkish president...

ANKARA - Turkey on Monday requested Interpol red notices for three former prosecutors linked to FETO, the group behind last year’s defeated coup.The Supreme Court issued a request for red notices covering ex-prosecutors Zekeriya Oz, Celal Kara, and Mehmet Yuzgec, who are being sought over a 2013 plot by the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO).According to a 557-page indictment against

the trio, Istanbul prosecutors are seeking aggravated life terms as well as up to 72 years of imprisonment on several charges, including attempting to overthrow the Turkish government, establishing and managing an armed terrorist organization, and abuse of office.The fugitive suspects had launched a so-called graft probe against top government officials on Dec. 17-25, 2013. The probe...

By Ahmet Gurhan Kartal

LONDON - Myanmar’s foreign minister and de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi was announced the 2017 International Islamophobe of the Year on Sunday.Her atrocities targeting Myanmar’s Muslim minority are so egregious that she shot past other nominated international Islamophobes, U.S. President Donald Trump, French far-right party National Front leader Marie Le Pen, far-right Dutch party Freedoms Party leader Geert Wildres.Between 2,000 and 3,000 Muslims were killed in

Myanmar’s Rakhine state in the last three days, according to the European Rohingya Council and more than 617,000 Rohingya Muslims were forced to take shelter in neighboring Bangladesh.The annual Islamophobia Awards by the London-based Islamic Human Rights Commission hosted the representatives of many NGOs and Muslims. The program started with recitation from the Muslim’s holy book of Quran.In the “United Kingdom” category, the Islamophobe of the year was announced as Tommy Robinson – the former leader of...

By Zeynep Tufekci

MARIB - Millions of children are in desperate need of humanitarian assistance in Yemen, UNICEF’s Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa said in a press conference Sunday in Jordan’s capital Amman.“More than 11 million Yemeni children are today in acute need of humanitarian assistance. This number makes the 40

percent of the population,” Geert Cappelaere, the regional director, said.He added that Yemen is one of the countries that faces the highest level of malnutrition in the world.Nearly 5,000 children have been killed or seriously injured in the last two and a half years, Cappelaere said:“Thousands of schools and health facilities have been completely destroyed. Two million children today...

ANKARA - Turkish security forces seized more than 5 tons of drugs in nationwide anti-narcotic operations over the last month, the country’s police said Sunday. In a statement, Turkey’s Security General Directorate said police made the seizures in anti-narcotics operations between Oct. 21 and Nov. 21.

More than three tons of hashish and nearly 2.5 tons of heroin were seized during the operations, the statement said. Among the other seized drugs were more than 3 million ecstasy tablets, 16,000 Captagon tablets, 887 kilograms of chemicals, and over 23 kg of methamphetamine... MORE DETAILS

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Supreme Court requests red notices for 3 ex-prosecutors over 2013 probe that sought to overthrow government