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Turkish Supreme Military Council (YAS) meeting, under the presidency of Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim, is held at Cankaya Palace in Ankara

Barbara John says investigation into 7-year neo-Nazi killing spree must ‘dig deeper to uncover the truth’

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Prosecutors slammedLawyers representing victims call for deeper investigation into 10 murders of NSU terror group

Security forces gather at the area where NATO mission convoy hit by an suicide-bomber attack in Kandahar Province of Afghanistan on August 02, 2017. Casualties reported.

PM Binali Yildirim chairs bi-annual Supreme Military Council meeting

ANKARA - A high-level meeting of Turkey’s military leadership began on Wednesday, and is expected to focus on senior armed-forces appointments.The Supreme Military Council (YAS) meeting started at Cankaya Palace with Prime

Minister Binali Yildirim chairing the event.This meeting is a bi-annual gathering which discusses the appointments and retirements of high-ranking staff officers and generals, as well as the removal of military personnel.YAS members first visited the mausoleum of Turkey’s first president, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, before going to Cankaya Palace.Military reassignments and promotions...

According to poll, Turks, Canadians fear US influence abroadANKARA - Fear of the U.S. is on the rise in many counties, including Canada and Turkey, according to a global survey released Tuesday.

The Washington, DC-based Pew Research Center surveyed 41,953 people in 38 countries during a span of about 11 weeks to ascertain what were seen as top threats around the world.In Canada and Turkey, the United States was perceived as a bigger threat to their security than Russia or China.Of those surveyed...

Northern Iraq’s Kurdish region gears up to hold referendum on proposed secession from Iraqi stateBy Idris Okuducu

BAGHDAD - Iraqi President Fuad Masum on Tuesday said a planned referendum on the proposed secession of the northern Kurdish region from Iraq did not amount to a “declaration

of independence”.On Sept. 25, the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) plans to hold a popular referendum on whether the region should formally seek independence from the central government in Baghdad.According to a statement issued by his office, Masum met with a number of foreign diplomats at Baghdad’s Salam Palace to celebrate the northern city of Mosul’s recent “liberation” from the Daesh terrorist group.

Police fears several casualties in attack that destroyed 2 NATO vehicles in outskirts of Kandahar cityBy Shadi Khan Saif

KABUL - A suspected suicide bomber struck a NATO convoy in Afghanistan’s

southern Kandahar province on Wednesday, security officials said.Several casualties are feared in the attack that destroyed at least two NATO vehicles in the outskirts of Kandahar city, said Zia Durrani, spokesman for the Afghan police in the region.The NATO-led Resolute Support Mission confirmed the suicide attack in...

By Erbil Basay

BERLIN - Germany’s ombudswoman for the victims of a far-right murder spree spanning several years has called for a deeper investigation into the 10 killings carried out by members of the neo-Nazi National Socialist Underground (NSU).“We are still left with a very thick layer, we have to dig deeper to uncover the truth,” Barbara John told Anadolu Agency in an interview.The NSU killed 10 people including eight Turkish and one Greek

immigrant between 2000 and 2007, but the group’s ultimate goals and ties remain unclear.John said the terrorist group must have enjoyed wider support than that uncovered by federal prosecutors.“For their attacks, the NSU members chose uncrowded places, where they could easily run away. They needed help from their supporters to identify these places. We still do not know who these people were, who supported them,” she said.The NSU carried out murders, bomb attacks and robberies...

Council to shape Turkish military

Fear of US growing in Canada, Turkey

Suicide bomber strikes Afghan NATO convoy

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Turkey condemns mosque attack in AfghanistanAt least 20 people killed and 30 others injured in Tuesday’s attack on a mosque in western Afghan city of Herat