Birce Bora

A com­bi­na­tion of fac­tors led to the wide­spread de­struc­tion that has left thou­sands still trapped un­der de­bris.

Turkey’s de­ci­sion is not nec­es­sar­i­ly anti-Sau­di, but it is def­i­nite­ly pro-Qatari, say an­a­lysts.

The Eu­phrates Shield ‘reached its nat­ur­al lim­its’, but Turkey is not ready to leave Syr­ia, ac­cord­ing to an­a­lysts.

Head­line al­leg­ing there is an ‘un­ease’ at the coun­try’s mil­i­tary head­quar­ters angers Pres­i­dent Er­do­gan.

The post-ISIL pow­er vac­u­um in the re­gion has brought ten­sions be­tween Iran and Turkey to a head, an­a­lysts say.

Kur­dish MP Fi­gen Yuk­sekdag, who is held in cus­tody, has been con­vict­ed for mak­ing ‘ter­ror pro­pa­gan­da’.

Pro-Kur­dish HDP files ap­pli­ca­tion at Eu­ro­pean Court of Hu­man Rights over ar­rest of its lead­ers, Demir­tas and Yuk­sekdag.

Dis­cus­sions on Syr­ia, ISIL, Kurds and Gulen are ex­pect­ed to be the fo­cus of CIA chief Mike Pom­peo’s vis­it to Ankara.

Sup­port­ers say the con­sti­tu­tion­al re­form will bring sta­bil­i­ty, but crit­ics be­lieve it may ‘lead to a one-man rule’.

Lawyer of pris­on­ers killed by po­lice in In­dia’s Bhopal says the killings were “pre-planned mur­der”.