– In Marmaris, western Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan calls on the population to oppose the coup, speaking to the nation via a cell phone link broadcast by television. “If you dare, come back to your country”, Erdogan said Saturday in reference to Gulen,...
Western powers, which have an interest in maintaining “freedom of navigation” in waters that support more than US$5 trillion in shipping trade annually, have already put pressure on China to honour the ruling.
The deal “is critical to ensuring that Iran’s nuclear program is and will remain exclusively peaceful, which is profoundly in the national security interest of the US and the worldwide community”, according to the statement. Under the nuclear deal, Iran is...
Theresa May took over as Britain’s new prime minister on Wednesday charged with pulling the country out of the European Union, and sprung a surprise by making top Brexit campaigner Boris Johnson foreign secretary.
If the coup fails, Erdogan’s “hand will be strengthened and we’ll see more of his autocratic agenda”, Tol said. The senior official told media sources that all government officials were in charge of their offices.
Alliance leaders also agreed to begin a new naval mission in the Mediterranean and made commitments to maintain a stable military presence in Afghanistan and to fund Afghan security forces through 2020.
European leaders on Wednesday heaped pressure on Britain’s new Prime Minister Theresa May to launch the country’s divorce proceedings from the EU, while Russia’s Vladimir Putin said he was ready for “constructive dialogue” with David Cameron’s...