May 2017

Turkey sets a good example for the rest of world by the way it manages refugees’ challenges, the United Nations Population Fund’s Turkey representative has said. Speaking to Anadolu Agency during the recent opening of a women’s health center in the central province of Eskisehir, Karl Kulessa praised Turkey’s hosting over 3 millions of refugees. “These people suddenly came very quickly, and Turkey had to respond. If you look at how it was done, it Read More

U.S. fantasy-drama Games of Thrones has been named in an indictment against a group of military officers allegedly tied to the group that planned last July’s attempted coup in Turkey, a judicial official said Wednesday. The hit HBO show was singled out in an indictment against 136 military lawyers accused of ties to the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO), which Ankara has said plotted the failed putsch. The suspects are said to have been assigned to Read More

A Rohingya advocacy group urged the government of Myanmar on Tuesday to cooperate with a UN fact-finding mission as it presents new evidence of attacks against Muslim civilians in western Rakhine state. The London-based Burmese Rohingya Organization U.K. (BROUK) published a new report that contains evidence Rohingya have been targeted in an organized manner by state forces in northern Rakhine state during military operations since last October. “What is new about the material contained in Read More