By Ihsan Bal Fifty years ago they set out into the unknown with their wooden cases from Istanbul’s Sirkeci Railway station. They were going as workers from a remote Anatolian small town to the industrial cities of Germany. They had a dream of earning a little money and then returning to the motherland. But most [...]
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With terrorist attacks perpetrated almost on a daily basis since the United States pulled its troops out of Iraq, the Iraqi people have witnessed a dramatic increase in executions of terrorists, insurgents and common criminals, according to a non-governmental organization’s report released on Thursday. Justice Minister Hassan al-Shammari stated that Baghdad would continue to implement [...]
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will pay an official visit to Russia on April 28-30 on an invitation from Russian President Vladimir Putin. This will be the first visit by a Japanese premier to Russia over the last 10 years. The Kremlin earlier reported that Russian-Japanese top-level talks would be held on Monday. The sides [...]
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By Ebru Özarslan Again on 24 April 2013, in Armenia, “quasi genocide” was memorialized. During the ceremonies, the President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan made harsh declarations to the detriment of Turkey about the so-called genocide. While the Vice President of the Armenian Assembly accused PM of Turkey Erdoğan and President Gül for not being sincere, [...]
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By Richard Solash for RFE/RL Politicians, pundits, and average Americans alike are trying to make sense of the April 15 Boston bombings and how two young ethnic Chechen immigrants were seemingly drawn to terror. Just how the country should respond is a question that looms large. From some corners, the result has been an uptick [...]
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The blasts taking place in Karachi during this week seem part of the grand conspiracy to plunge the country deep into anarchy and challenging writ of the government. Bringing economic activities to grinding halt in Karachi is aimed at adding to the woes for the country facing serious balance of payment crisis. The anti-Pakistan forces, [...]
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WHEN THE huge immigration wave from the Soviet Union arrived in 1990, we were glad. First of all, because we believe that all immigration is a good thing for the country. This, I believe, is generally the case. Second, because we were convinced that this specific group of immigrants would push our country in the [...]
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New York’s medical examiner’s office will search for human remains in an alley where a suspected part of a hijacked September 11 jet is wedged between two buildings. Police have declared the area a crime scene, at least until forensics experts finish their work. A piece of landing gear is stuck in a narrow, 60-centimeter [...]
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Three members of an alleged cult accused of sacrificing a baby to save the world ahead of December’s supposed Mayan apocalypse, surrendered on Saturday, Chilean police said. Police were on Sunday still hunting for the alleged leader of the cult who is believed to have fled to Peru, after the baby’s mother and three other [...]
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Russia beat the Czech Republic 2-1 in the final game of Katjobet Hockey Games Sunday and finished the 2012-2013 Euro Hockey Tour season in first place. Yegor Averin and Kirill Petrov scored for Russia while Konstantin Barulin made 22 saves. Russia won one tournament – the Channel One Cup – in the four-tournament Euro Hockey [...]
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Two Uighurs working for the Ministry of Public Security in the Hotan area of the Xinjiang province of China are reported to have been killed on April 26, 2013, when the local Uighurs in the village of Yengi Awat protested against fellow Uighurs forcibly being used by the Han Police to make a physical search [...]
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In the external intelligence division of the Intelligence Bureau, headed by B. N. Mallick, DIB, and subsequently post-1968 in the Research & Analysis Wing (R&AW), headed by R. N. Kao, Leh was a coveted posting for young officers. Both Mallick as the DIB and Kao as the head of the external intelligence division of the [...]
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Economic forecasters exist to make astrologers look good. Most had forecast growth of at least 3 percent (on an annualized basis) in the first quarter. But we learned Friday (in the Commerce Department’s report) it grew only 2.5 percent. That’s better than the 2 percent growth last year and the slowdown at the end of [...]
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Forced lockdown of a city. Militarized police riding tanks in the streets. Door-to-door armed searches without warrant. Families thrown out of their homes at gunpoint to be searched without probable cause. Businesses forced to close. Transport shut down. These were not the scenes from a military coup in a far off banana republic, but rather [...]
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For several years Paraguayan news headlines broad casted by the media are disturbing: violent assaults and household robbery committed by criminals whose sole purpose is to steal everything at every cost, while hindering Asuncion’s growing tourism industry and placing its commuters in a constant insecurity. Since 2008, Paraguay has had to curtail and encounter a [...]
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The world is taking note of the ruling Conservatives’ shameful betrayal of Canada’s once admirable reputation as a fair country, sincerely working on the world stage to improve the lot of the disadvantaged and suffering. In the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review, Canada was criticized to such an extent that the Council decided [...]
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Operation Merdeka (1967), an alleged plan to infiltrate Sabah and annex it to the Philippines, may have resulted from a failure to reach a compromise solution on the Sabah issue after the creation of the Malaysian Federation. Fear of a well-entrenched deep-seated Malaysian position in the area which may put the Philippine position at a [...]
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More prisoners have joined a hunger strike at the US-run detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, bringing the reported total to 93 out of 166 held at the facility, according to media reports. Lawyers for the detainees claim that the actual number is higher. “The illegal detentions without charge or trial at Guantanamo Bay have gone [...]
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered his ministers to cease making public comments on the civil conflict in Syria, especially reports regarding the alleged use of chemical weapons by Syrian government forces, Israeli media said. Netanyahu’s instruction follows comments made by deputy foreign minister Ze’ev Elkin on Army radio Friday, in which the official appeared [...]
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Israeli warplanes bombed two sites early Sunday in the south of the Gaza Strip belonging to the military wing of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine. No injuries were reported, but a training site was damaged, a statement from the National Resistance Brigades said. Israeli aircraft fired two missiles at the site, the [...]
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