Tag: Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK)

Turkey detains top medical group members over Syria criticism

by Raziye AKKOC Agence France-Presse ANKARA, Turkey (AFP) – Turkey on Tuesday detained all the top members of the country’s main medical association, including its chief, after they criticized Ankara’s offensive against Kurdish militia in Syria. The arrests came after the Turkish Medical Association (TTB), which represents 80 percent of the country’s physicians, issued a statement saying that conflicts lead to “irreparable problems” and that “war is a man-made public health problem”. The TTB ended its statement […]

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World powers meet to pressure Syria on chemical attacks

by Valérie Leroux Agence France-Presse PARIS, France (AFP) – Diplomats from 29 countries including US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson meet in Paris on Tuesday pushing for sanctions and criminal charges against the perpetrators of chemical attacks in Syria. Tillerson and his French counterpart Jean-Yves Le Drian will also co-host a meeting of ministers ahead of a new round of peace talks in Vienna later this week and again in Sochi in Russia the week after. The […]

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Developing story: Brazil’s Rousseff ousted by Senate, Temer sworn in

  (REUTERS)  Brazil’s Senate ousted President Dilma Rousseff on Wednesday, ending an impeachment process that polarized Latin America’s biggest country amid a massive corruption scandal and brutal economic crisis. Senators voted 61-20 to convict the country’s first female president for illegally using money from state banks to bankroll public spending, marking the end of 13 years of leftist Workers Party rule. Rousseff’s opponents hailed the removal of the former leftist guerrilla as paving the way […]

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One killed and scores wounded in Turkey car bombing

HANI, DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) – A vehicle laden with explosives rammed into a gendarmerie base in Turkey’s mainly Kurdish southeast late on Monday (April 11), killing one soldier and wounding 47 others, the military said on Tuesday (April 12). Thirty-nine soldiers and eight civilians were wounded in the attack in the town of Hani, north of the provincial capital of Diyarbakir, according to a written statement. About 20 ambulances rushed to the scene, the military […]

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