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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 country, except North Korea and Kosovo, are members of Interpol—are so scrupulous. Want to keep up wi...

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, the Turkish cherry cultivation keeps growing every year, but so is local demand for cherries: “Turk...

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, even though Hollywood likes to depict it as such. It’s actually more like an electronic bulletin ...

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 elections for the Palestine Liberation Organization’s (PLO) long dormant parliament in exile, the Palestin...

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-Yıldırım launched last week, was that the Turkish troops violating the border of sovereign Iraq were atta...