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Sixteen business-oriented organizations, including the Confederation of Turkish Trade Unions (TURK-IS), the Confederation of Turkish Tradesmen and Craftsmen (TESK), the Turkish Industry and Business Association (TUSIAD) and the Confederation of Public Servants Trade Unions (MEMUR-SEN) participated in the news conference. “Turkey has used its rights arising from international rules. The territorial integrity, sovereignty and... BERLIN - Sympathizers of the PYD/PKK terror organization attacked Turkish citizens at Germany’s Hannover airport Monday after a verbal confrontation over Turkey’s military operation in northwest Syria. Police said dozens of protestors and passengers clashed after sympathizers of the PYD/PKK attempted to hold an unauthorized demonstration at the airport. Multiple videos posted on social media showed the pro-PYD/PKK protestors shouting anti-Turkey slogans and punching Turkish passengers following a verbal exchange. Hannover police said officers had to use pepper spray to prevent further clashes and later opened a criminal investigation against a number of suspects. At least two people were slightly injured during the brawl. By Sorwar Alam ANKARA - Rohingya refugees continue to flee persecution in Myanmar but Bangladesh is preparing to send them back despite deep concern among the international community, according to a Rohingya advocacy group. “The repatriation deal is a nightmare for all Rohingya genocide survivors who fled to Bangladesh. We are deeply concerned about it,” Hla Kyaw, chairman of the European Rohingya Council, told Anadolu Agency. He said Rohingya refugees currently taking shelter in Bangladesh “should never be returned to the killing fields before their safety, security and citizenship are guaranteed.” The bilateral deal, signed on Nov. 23 last year, stipulates some nearly impossible conditions for the verifying the residency of the people the agreement calls “displaced persons from Myanmar” instead of their widely known ethnic identity of Rohingya. Though Tuesday is the deadline to start the repatriation, the process seems likely to take more time as many issues are yet to be finalized. Right groups including Human Rights Watch, the UN Refugee Agency and Amnesty International have... ANKARA - A high-level U.S. delegation arrived here Monday to discuss a number of issues with officials, including cooperation and the Turkish military operation in Syria’s Afrin region, according to diplomatic sources. The American delegation will also have a meeting at the Turkish General Staff. The Turkish group will be led by Deputy Foreign Ministry Undersecretary Ahmet Muhtar Gun at the meeting Tuesday, and the U.S. delegation will be... By Ahmet Gurhan Kartal LONDON - Turkey has launched Operation Olive Branch to protect its borders and prevent the establishment of a terror zone, the chief adviser to the president said Monday. Speaking on British Channel 4’s main news program, Prof. Dr. Gulnur Aybet said Turkey has explained the reasons for the operation to the world. “We have explained to the entire world why we are doing this, and as you know, the PYD and the armed extension of the PYD, the YPG, are a terrorist organization equivalent to the PKK, which is recognized as a terrorist organization by the United States and the European Union,” she said. “They do not represent the Syrian Kurds, so it is wrong for you to say they are the representatives of Syrian Kurds, and the PKK... Refugees cheer on anti-terror op SANLIURFA - The PYD/PKK terror organization must be dealt a crushing blow in Turkey’s current operation in northwestern Syria, for the good of the people, a Syrian Kurdish migrant said on Tuesday. “The head of the PYD/PKK is in Afrin, its arms are in Ayn-el Arab [Kobani], and its feet in Al-Hasakah. The PYD/PKK’s head must be torn off in Afrin,” Ibrahem Abdullah told Anadolu Agency, citing the names of places in northern Syria, including Afrin, the focus of the current operation. Abdullah, 67, one of hundreds of thousands of Syrian migrants who left his country, now lives in Turkey’s southeastern Sanliurfa province with his two sons. Due to the civil war in their country, many Syrian Kurdish families fled to Turkey, fearing returning to their homeland. Nearly 350,000 Kurds from Afrin, Syria left their country, and most of them fled to Turkey after oppression from the terrorist groups the PKK/PYD/YPG and Daesh. Abdullah, waiting for the pressure, violence and persecution of PYD/PKK terrorists in his country to end, lives with... MORE DETAILS Anadolu Agency Photo Anadolu Agency Photo Anadolu Agency Photo MORE DETAILS President’s senior adviser says PYD has used the war to take control of areas without a predominantly Kurdish population Bangladesh and Myanmar should reconsider repatriation deal, says Rohingya advocacy group Turkey’s organic food exports up 17 percent in 2017 UAE replaces museum world map omitting rival Qatar Anadolu Agency’s 2017 Almanac goes on sale Economy>> Middle East>> Culture and Art>>
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US officials arrive in Ankara to discuss Syria
Rohingya repatriation looms amid int’l concerns
Businesspeople back Operation Olive Branch
PYD/PKK supporters attack Turkish citizens in Germany
Turkey acts on right to ‘protect its borders’
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By Aysenur Saglam and Enes Duran
ANKARA - Leading representatives from the business world in Turkey voiced their support for Turkey’s ongoing military Operation Olive Branch in Syria’s Afrin region, on Tuesday.“We defend, and side with, our government’s decision to protect our national security,” Rifat Hisarciklioglu, chairman of the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey (TOBB), said in a news conference in the chamber’s
headquarters in the capital Ankara.Sixteen business-oriented organizations, including the Confederation of Turkish Trade Unions (TURK-IS), the Confederation of Turkish Tradesmen and Craftsmen (TESK), the Turkish Industry and Business Association (TUSIAD) and the Confederation of Public Servants Trade Unions (MEMUR-SEN) participated in the news conference.“Turkey has used its rights arising from international rules. The territorial integrity, sovereignty and...
BERLIN - Sympathizers of the PYD/PKK terror organization attacked Turkish citizens at Germany’s Hannover airport Monday after a verbal confrontation over Turkey’s military operation in northwest Syria.Police said dozens of protestors and passengers clashed after sympathizers of the PYD/PKK attempted to hold an unauthorized demonstration at the airport.Multiple videos posted on
social media showed the pro-PYD/PKK protestors shouting anti-Turkey slogans and punching Turkish passengers following a verbal exchange.Hannover police said officers had to use pepper spray to prevent further clashes and later opened a criminal investigation against a number of suspects.At least two people were slightly injured during the brawl.
By Sorwar Alam
ANKARA - Rohingya refugees continue to flee persecution in Myanmar but Bangladesh is preparing to send them back despite deep concern among the international community, according to a Rohingya advocacy group.“The repatriation deal is a nightmare for all Rohingya genocide survivors who fled to Bangladesh. We are
deeply concerned about it,” Hla Kyaw, chairman of the European Rohingya Council, told Anadolu Agency.He said Rohingya refugees currently taking shelter in Bangladesh “should never be returned to the killing fields before their safety, security and citizenship are guaranteed.”The bilateral deal, signed on Nov. 23 last year, stipulates some nearly impossible conditions for the verifying the
residency of the people the agreement calls “displaced persons from Myanmar” instead of their widely known ethnic identity of Rohingya.Though Tuesday is the deadline to start the repatriation, the process seems likely to take more time as many issues are yet to be finalized.Right groups including Human Rights Watch, the UN Refugee Agency and Amnesty International have...
ANKARA - A high-level U.S. delegation arrived here Monday to discuss a number of issues with officials, including cooperation and the Turkish military operation in Syria’s Afrin region, according to diplomatic sources.
The American delegation will also have a meeting at the Turkish General Staff.The Turkish group will be led by Deputy Foreign Ministry Undersecretary Ahmet Muhtar Gun at the meeting Tuesday, and the U.S. delegation will be...
By Ahmet Gurhan Kartal
LONDON - Turkey has launched Operation Olive Branch to protect its borders and prevent the establishment of a terror zone, the chief adviser to the president said Monday.Speaking on British Channel 4’s main news program, Prof. Dr. Gulnur Aybet said Turkey has explained the reasons for the operation to the world.“We have explained to the
entire world why we are doing this, and as you know, the PYD and the armed extension of the PYD, the YPG, are a terrorist organization equivalent to the PKK, which is recognized as a terrorist organization by the United States and the European Union,” she said.“They do not represent the Syrian Kurds, so it is wrong for you to say they are the representatives of Syrian Kurds, and the PKK...
Refugees cheer on anti-terror opSANLIURFA - The PYD/PKK terror organization must be dealt a crushing blow in Turkey’s current operation in northwestern Syria, for the good of the people, a Syrian Kurdish migrant said on Tuesday.“The head of the PYD/PKK is in Afrin, its arms are in Ayn-el Arab [Kobani], and its feet in Al-Hasakah. The PYD/PKK’s head
must be torn off in Afrin,” Ibrahem Abdullah told Anadolu Agency, citing the names of places in northern Syria, including Afrin, the focus of the current operation.Abdullah, 67, one of hundreds of thousands of Syrian migrants who left his country, now lives in Turkey’s southeastern Sanliurfa province with his two sons.Due to the civil war in their country, many
Syrian Kurdish families fled to Turkey, fearing returning to their homeland. Nearly 350,000 Kurds from Afrin, Syria left their country, and most of them fled to Turkey after oppression from the terrorist groups the PKK/PYD/YPG and Daesh.Abdullah, waiting for the pressure, violence and persecution of PYD/PKK terrorists in his country to end, lives with...
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President’s senior adviser says PYD has used the war to take control of areas without a predominantly Kurdish population
Bangladesh and Myanmar should reconsider repatriation deal, says Rohingya advocacy group
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Anadolu Agency’s 2017 Almanac goes on sale
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