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Police nab ‘would-be’ assassin of interior min.

Turkish base in Qatar to ‘boost regional security’Opposition leader says Turkey aims to support stability in Gulf amid crisisANKARA - Opposition leader Devlet Bahceli on Tuesday backed the deployment of Turkish troops to Qatar as the Gulf state faces a diplomatic and trade boycott from its neighbors.Bahceli told lawmakers from his Nationalist Move-ment Party the soldiers would help guarantee security and stability in the region.The Turkish military base established in Qatar fol-lowing an agreement in

2014 “has no aim beside supporting the security and stability of Gulf coun-tries,” he said in Ankara.He added: “We have histor-ical affiliations with Qatar. Once upon a time, district governors appointed by

our ancestors ruled this country.”Last week, parliament vot-ed to deploy more troops to the base and approved the training of Qatari forc-es by Turkish gendarmeries following the cutting of ties with Qatar by Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Egypt and Yemen.The Arab states accused Qatar of supporting ter-rorism, an allegation Doha has denied.Bahceli, whose party is the smallest of the four parties in parliament, also criti-cized the Kurdish Regional Government’s decision to holding an independence referendum across its ter-ritory...

Slain suspect was allegedly planning attack on Turkish interior ministerISTANBUL - Police killed a suspect with links to the far-left terror group, Rev-

olutionary People’s Lib-eration Party-Front (DH-KP-C), during an exchange of fire in Istanbul early Tuesday, according to an official statement.The slain terrorist was al-legedly planning an attack on the Turkish interior minister...

ANKARA - A policewoman was seriously injured as gunfire broke out at a German subway station on Tuesday morning, police have said.Shots were fired at Munich’s Unterfoehring subway station in the northeast of the city, local police confirmed.Several other people have also been injured.One person was arrested.“Situation on the spot secured by police forces. The area around the suburban train station #Unterföhring is being cordoned off,”...

By Murat Demirci

LEFKOSA - A military base on British sovereign territory in Southern Cyprus was attacked on Tuesday.A police statement said person on a motorbike had thrown a grenade at the facility in Dhekelia, on the southeastern coast of Cyprus.One police officer is said to have suffered minor injuries; the assailant fled the scene. The base and its surroundings suffered small-scale damage.The U.K. has maintained two military bases at Akrotiri and Dhekelia since the island gained independence from Britain in 1960.Cyprus was divided into a Turkish Cypriot state in the north and a Greek Cypriot administration in the south after an Enosis-inspired 1974 military coup was followed by violence against...

Erdogan urges Saudi role in resolving Gulf crisisPresident Recep Tayyip Erdogan urged the king of Saudi Arabia, Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud, to take a leading role in resolving the ongoing crisis with QatarBy Emin Avundukluoglu

ANKARA - Last week, five Arab countries -- Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain

and Yemen -- cut off ties with Qatar, accusing Doha of supporting terrorism.Qatar, for its part, has denied the accusations, calling the moves to diplomatically isolate it as “unjustified”.In remarks made at the ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party’s parliamentary group meeting in Ankara on Tuesday, Erdogan said the isolation of Qatar nation was neither Islamic nor humanitarian.“Qatar along with Turkey is a country that took the most determined stand against the terrorist organization, Daesh,” he said.The president said it appears some

countries have already decided to hand down the death penalty to Qatar and urged Saudi Arabia to reconsider the harsh steps against the small Gulf country.“The king of Saudi Arabia, as leader of the Gulf, should solve this issue. I especially think that he should lead the way towards resolving this crisis,” Erdogan said. He also asked the countries involved in the crisis to not work against each other. “Making Qatar look guilty has not benefited the region...Qatar should not be considered as just a wealthy country with treasures hidden underground.

Turkey, Qatar will seek a modus vivendi with detractors, amid revolution and counterrevolution linked to the Arab Spring

By Makram Rabah

ISTANBUL - The timing of a significant political development could hardly coincide with a more meaningful anniversary: June 5, 2017, the 50th anniversary of the Six Day

War, saw Arab autocracies, including the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.), Saudi Arabia and Egypt, severing diplomatic ties with Qatar due to Qatar’s continuing support for the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas, among other reasons.This is the fourth major political intervention aimed at suppressing the popular awakening that Middle Eastern polities have been experiencing, popularly known as the “Arab Spring.” The previous three interventions...

The siege of Qatar

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Grenade blast hits British base in Southern Cyprus

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