Several million Turks have gathered in Istanbul on Sunday in protest against last month’s coup attempt, according to police and organizers. The mass rally was called by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and is seen as a show of strength for the leader, who has been criticized by the West for a sweeping crackdown on dissent
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Middle EastIstanbul (dpa) – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan renewed calls for the reintroduction of the death penalty at a massive rally of hundreds of thousands of people in Istanbul on Sunday to protest last month’s failed coup attempt by elements of the Turkish military. “If they [the people] reach such a decision, then I believe
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Middle EastThe Baghdad municipality announced Friday it would demolish and then give to a developer the 100-year-old home of Iraq’s first finance minister, Sir Sassoon Eskell, while an official in Iraq’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities slammed the decision as a “violation” of the law. Eskell, who was born into an aristocratic Baghdadi Jewish family in
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Jewish History, Middle EastThe following is an extract from Puk Damsgård’s story of Danish photographer Daniel Rye Ottosen’s 13 months in ISIS captivity in northern Syria. This scene details his escape from an Islamic State militant group (ISIS) safe house in the northern Syrian town of Azaz where he had been tortured for weeks. Daniel felt hands on
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International, Middle EastDaniel Rye Ottosen has just returned to the Malawian town of Chikwawa from a week in the bush with a small family, surviving on a bland dough known locally as nsima. The austere diet reminds the 27-year-old Danish freelance photographer of harder times. “Right now, I am looking forward so much to having a decent
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International, Middle EastBy Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — World Vision is a Christian charity on an anti-Israel mission. This can clearly be seen in its fraudulently biased website description of Israel and what they call the West Bank, properly known as Judea & Samaria. The unemployment level of Jerusalem, West Bank and Gaza is not 46% and
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Middle East, USAPrime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu learned about the Defense Ministry’s statement that criticized U.S. President Barack Obama from the media, his aide told U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro on Friday, according to Haaretz. The newspaper reported that a senior aide to Netanyahu called Shapiro on Friday night and told him that Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman
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Middle East, USAA drone that crossed into northern Israel last month belonged to Russia — not Hezbollah, as was initially suspected — the Haaretz newspaper reported Sunday. The unmanned aerial vehicle entered Israeli airspace from Syria on July 17. The Israel Defense Forces attempted to shoot down the aircraft three times, but failed. Israel’s security services initially
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International, Middle EastIsrael’s Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon expressed great satisfaction with the visit to Israel he led in which 11 UN ambassadors representing countries from four different continents had the opportunity to observe life in Israel for themselves. “It was a very effective visit. We managed to show them the chief challenges we’re dealing with
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International, Middle EastA new poll released Sunday has worrying news for the left-leaning Zionist Union, showing the party sinking to its lowest level ever. The poll, conducted by Geocartographia for Army Radio included 500 respondents. According to the survey, the Zionist Union led by Isaac Herzog falls to the lowest level shown in any polls since the
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Middle EastAs the US presidential race rounds into the homestretch, Donald Trump warned voters in New Hampshire that ISIS is “salivating” at the thought of Hillary Clinton becoming president. “Remember, ISIS is looking folks. They dream of Hillary Clinton. They look at her and they say ‘This can’t be happening to us. How great is this,’
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Middle East, USAThe U.S. State Department’s recent harsh rebuke of unchecked Israeli settlement building and mounting Palestinian house demolitions has set off countervailing criticism from those who question not only its tone and timing but the very definition of illegal settlement building. The world does not often agree on international issues, but there is an international consensus
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Middle EastAn Israeli company has hacked into ISIS secret online messaging group “telegram”, and has revealed lists of potential targets for attacks planned by the terror group, Channel 10 News reported on Wednesday. Only 500 people worldwide are members of the secret group, and new members are only accepted by recommendation by one of the existing
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International, Middle East, USAA Hamas terrorist was killed on Saturday when a tunnel collapsed in Gaza, AFP reported. The spokesman of the health ministry in Gaza, Ashraf al-Qodra, identified the terrorist who was killed as Khaled al-Hoor, 22, according to the news agency. The incident marks the latest in a series of terror tunnel collapses in Gaza in
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