The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has discussed development in northern Syria, Turkey’s operation in closed session at request of some European Union countries. The U.S. and Russia did not approve Thursday a proposal issued [ More … ]
Egypt must ensure no one is subjected to reprisal in relation to Special Procedures missions. Resettlement and compensation of those evicted must comply with international human rights law, says a report by UN Special Rapporteur on the [ More … ]
A U.S.-sponsored draft resolution that for the first time would have condemned the militant Islamic group Hamas, which controls Gaza, failed to win the required two-thirds majority in the U.N. General Assembly. Before Thursday’s vote, [ More … ]
The spokesman for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday condemned Germany’s decision to toughen its stance on Turkey. In televised remarks, Ibrahim Kalin commented on Berlin’s decision to reset relations with Turkey, including warning its [ More … ]
The Muslim Brotherhood has issued a statement condemning the UAE’s “blatant interference in the affairs of several Arab countries and coordination with the Zionist lobby for spreading chaos, killing, and coups in the region,” according to [ More … ]
BY: EREN EGEHAN BAĞIŞ* The true representatives of Islam, a religion of peace that does not order to kill innocent people or organize terror attacks, wholeheartedly condemns Daesh as well as other blood-thirsty groups around [ More … ]
“We share the grief of the British government and its people,” Turkish president says Turkey has moved to condemn a deadly terror attack at a pop concert in the U.K. which police said claimed at [ More … ]
Turkish Foreign Ministry says launch constitutes violation of UN resolutions Turkey condemned North Korea’s latest missile test on Monday and called on the isolated state to stop its “provocative behavior”. “We strongly condemn the ballistic [ More … ]
Tunisia strongly condemned the cowardly terrorist attack in Stockholm, Sweden, that left many dead and injured, and Egypt’s terrorist attacks on two churches that killed and injured several people on Palm Sunday. In a statement issued by the Foreign [ More … ]
Morocco strongly condemned the abject terrorist attacks that targeted Sunday morning two churches in the Egyptian cities of Tanta and Alexandria, causing several victims. Morocco also denounces all attacks against places of worship and vigorously [ More … ]
Leaders in Turkey have condemned Sunday’s attacks on two churches in Egypt, which were claimed by the Daesh terror group, as well as an al-Shabaab car bomb attack on a convoy in Somalia. Presidential spokesman [ More … ]
Growing number of nations denounce Dutch government for blocking Turkish ministers from meeting ex-pats. Also, the Turkish Foreign Ministry has sent two diplomatic notes to the West European country. Egypt, Iraq, Mauritania and Tunisia on Monday joined [ More … ]
The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) released a statement Friday in response to the Trump administration’s comments earlier in the day that Israeli settlement construction on occupied Palestinian land “is not an [ More … ]
The statement didn’t mention the United States or Trump by name Foreign ministers from the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Thursday indirectly condemned plans by US President-elect Donald Trump to move the US Embassy [ More … ]
Spokesman for Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas Friday condemned recent news that Israel’s ultra-right Minister of Education from the Jewish Home party, Naftali Bennett plans to introduce a bill to the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, [ More … ]
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