Turkey reacted angrily to the Oct. 10 vote by the House Foreign Relations Committee approving a measure that condemns the mass killings of Armenians in Turkey during World War I as an act of genocide. Said President Abdullah Gul in… Read moreTurkish “left” supports official revisionism on Armenian genocide?
Egyptian police detained at least 40 after thousands of angry Bedouins stormed government buildings in north Sinai Oct. 7 to protest police inaction after a shooting by a rival clan. The ruling National Democratic Party headquarters in the city of… Read moreEgypt: Bedouin sweeps follow Sinai unrest
From South Africa’s Mail & Guardian, Sept. 17: Israel has enforced a news blackout on what may be its air force’s most audacious raid since its jets destroyed Saddam Hussein’s nuclear reactor in 1981. The Israeli government has made no… Read moreNorth Korean nuke link behind Israel’s Syria raid?
Shades of the Niger Delta in Yemen. From Reuters, Sept. 1: ADEN – A Yemeni tribe has freed two foreign engineers and their Yemeni driver, a government source said on Saturday, after the military threatened to storm the area to… Read moreYemen: tribesmen abduct foreign engineers
In the July 22 ballot, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan secured the largest share of votes in a Turkish election since 1965, in a contest which saw heated controversy about the country’s future as a secular republic. His Justice and… Read moreTurkish nationalism loses at polls—Kurdish nationalism wins?
Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos said initial investigations into the July 2 suicide-bombing that killed seven Spanish tourists indicate that al-Qaeda was behind the attack. Moratinos said the information was provided by his Yemeni counterpart Abu Bakr Abduallah al… Read moreAl-Qaeda behind Yemen suicide blast?
The Egyptian government has refused to allow human rights groups to observe the military trial of 33 leading members of the Muslim Brotherhood, undercutting the government’s claims that civilians will have a fair trial before military courts, Amnesty International and… Read moreEgypt: secret military trials protested
Turkish authorities have announed the seizure of weapons hidden on a Syria-bound train from Iran after Kurdish PKK guerillas derailed it with a bomb near the town of Genc in Bingol province. News reports said the weapons included 300 rockets… Read moreTurkey recovers Iranian arms from Syria-bound train raided by Kurdish guerillas
The separatist Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) denied responsibility for the May 22 bomb attack that killed six and wounded up to 100 in the busy Ankara shopping district of Ulus. “We have no connection with the attack,” the PKK said… Read moreAnkara terror: PKK denies it
Yemen has recalled its ambassador to Libya over its suspected support to Shi’ite guerilla followers of Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, who have been fighting government forces in the northern province of Saada since the beginning of the year. “The decision to recall… Read moreYemen: Qadaffi backs Shi’ite insurgents?
From Human Rights Watch, May 2, via AllAfrica.com: A criminal court in Cairo today sentenced Huwaida Taha Mitwalli, a journalist for Al-Jazeera and the London-based daily Al-Quds al-Arabi, to six months in prison on charges of “possessing and giving false… Read moreEgypt: reporter gets prison for exposing torture
From Amnesty International, April 24: Amnesty International condemns the harsh sentence handed down today on human rights lawyer Anwar al-Bunni, following an unfair trial that appeared to be politically driven and during which he was not given full access to… Read moreSyria: rights attorney gets five years
