Turkey attacked Kurdish insurgent camps in Iraq in a campaign that could end its peace process with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), Reuters reported, citing security forces. Ankara, which called fo ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-27
Thailand's prime minister defended a decision to forcibly return nearly 100 Muslim Uyghur migrants to China despite rights groups' fears they could face ill-treatment, Reuters reported. Prime Minister ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-10
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan's hopes of assuming greater powers suffered a serious blow when the ruling AK Party failed to win an outright majority in a parliamentary election, preliminary results ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-08
The European Parliament has passed a motion that describes the massacre of up to 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turkish forces a century ago as a "genocide". The resolution comes days after Pope Fra ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-16
An Istanbul prosecutor and his two captors were killed after security forces stormed the office where members of a far-left Turkish group took him hostage on Tuesday. Turkish President Tayyip Erdoga ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-01
The European Union and the United States criticized Turkish police raids on media outlets close to a US-based Muslim cleric, which have led to the arrest of at least 24 people. The operations against ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-15
United States-led coalition forces have carried out sustained air attacks on Islamic State fighters closing in on the Syrian border town of Kobani, after Turkey's president warned it was about to fall ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-08
Turkish tanks were deployed along the border with Syria as shells fired by Islamic State militants landed inside the country, injuring five people including two soldiers, Bloomberg reported. One of th ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-30
Militants continued to dig into key government strongholds, overunning Tikrit and taking facilities in the oil refining town of Baiji as Iraqi forces crumbled. The rebels moved south toward Baghdad af ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-12
