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Over the past few years, awareness has spread about the problem of Interpol abuse. Interpol isn’t an international police agency, even though Hollywood likes to depict it as such. It’s actually more like an electronic bulletin board on which police agencies around the world can post their “wanted” notices. Other police agencies can read the notices—or ignore them—as they choose. Interpol isn’t supposed to get involved in politics. But not all of its members—and almost every cou...

Harvest of Turkish Napoleon cherries should start next week The Turkish cherry season has begun for the early varieties, but it’s expected that next week the Napoleon variety will kick off as well. Due to rain just before the harvest, the start of the Napoleon variety could be delayed by two or three days. One exporter isn’t worried about being able to sell all his produce, as the local demand is so high, that they’ll never be in trouble. According to Muhsin Riza Agdag from Ideal Tarim, t...

What Americans Should Know About Interpol Abuse Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., seen here talking with reporters at the Capitol on May 16, 2017, will be the keynote speaker at a webinar, "Ending Interpol Abuse: How the Democratic World Can Fight Transnational Repression," hosted by The Heritage Foundation on Tuesday. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Commentary By Over the past few years, awareness has spread about the problem of Interpol abuse. Interpol isn’t an international police agency,...

Senior Fellow, Director of Program on Palestine and Palestinian-Israeli Affairs Last Thursday, after several weeks of planning and preparation, Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas officially announced that several election rounds scheduled for this summer would be postponed indefinitely. The elections, the first in 15 years, were to be held in three rounds, starting with PA legislative elections on May 22, followed by presidential elections on July 31, and culminating in election...

News From Antiwar.com Today the nation’s leading newspaper, Hürriyet, reported that two Turkish soldiers were killed in Iraq in what was routinely termed a cross-border anti-terror operation in the north of the country. As though Turkey reserves the right to wage armed incursions into neighboring countries that is denied the other nations of the world. The excuse for the latest raids, part of the Turkish military’s ongoing Operations Pençe-Şimşek (Clawed Lightening) and Pençe-Yıldır...

In February some Azerbaijani American community leaders ask public officials to sign Khojaly Remembrance Day proclamations. They are generally inaccurate and victimize those who have suffered persecution and genocide by Turkey and Azerbaijan. The mayor of Portland, Maine, agreed to a request made by the president of the Azerbaijani Society of Maine to issue a Remember Khojaly Day proclamation. Additionally, the Maine Holocaust and Human Rights Center (HHRC) cosponsored this matter. There may ...

While Turkey hit the headlines last week with a ban on paying for items with cryptocurrency, the government of India appears to be moving towards outlawing cryptocurrency completely. An unnamed senior government official told Reuters last month that a forthcoming bill this parliamentary session would include the prohibition of the “possession, issuance, mining, trading and transferring [of] crypto-assets.” Officials have subsequently done little to dispel the concern that they are seekin...

China looms large in Turkey’s controversial waterway project Turkey is reportedly gearing up to partner with China in the construction of an artificial waterway parallel to the Bosporus, a project with likely implications for Russia and the United States in the Black Sea. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (back-L) and Chinese President Xi Jinping (back-R) attend a signing ceremony ahead of the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing on May 13, 2017. April 12, 2021 While Turkey remains stuc...

Opinion: Saudi Arabia should sue Turkey for stealing Prophet Muhammads relics By Harut Sassounian The Arab News published on March 28 an article titled, “Book by Saudi author unravels Ottoman atrocities in Madinah.” The book was written by Saudi historian Muhammad Al-Saeed who exposed Ottoman atrocities against the Muslim population of the holy city of Madinah in Saudi Arabia in 1918 when it was part of the Ottoman Empire. Al-Saeed, in his book, “Seferberlik: A Century on from the Ottoman...

Last Updated: Italy Strongly Disapproves Two-state Deal For Ethnically Divided Cyprus Italy FM said that he underscored his “complete solidarity” with Cyprus over “provocations and unilateral actions” that harm the island’s sovereign rights Italian Foreign Minister on March 9 said that the nation strongly disapproves of any deal to reunify ethnically divided Cyprus that doesn’t conform to an already agreed-upon federal framework that’s spelt out in UN resolutions. According t...