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A leading Kurdish lawyer was shot dead on Saturday in southeast Turkey after unknown gunmen opened fire on a gathering in the mainly Kurdish province of Diyarbakir. Tahir Elci, head of the bar in southeastern […]

Lebanon’s Druze leader, Walid Jumblatt, has claimed that Turkey shot down the Russian jet on orders from NATO, and would never have done so on their own accord.  Jumblatt, a member of parliament and leader […]

French authorities have arrested 24 climate change activists ahead of the UN climate change warming conference in Paris next week, citing the state of emergency powers and scrapping of the human rights convention as justification.  […]

France has decided to “opt out” of the European Human Rights Convention, citing the recent Paris attacks as justification for its extreme decision.  France is still in a state of emergency, with police raids being […]

Vladimir Putin has authorized Russia’s military to bring down the current Turkish government, which includes plans to rid Turkey of its leader President Recep Erdogan, in response to Turkey’s shooting down of the Russian Su-24 warplane.  […]

Turkey’s president Recep Erdogan has lashed out at Vladimir Putin, warning him not to “play with fire” in response to Putin’s accusation that the U.S. supplied Turkey with information about the flight path of its downed […]

Russia have said they have a renewed determination to completely obliterate ISIS in Syria, following the downing of Russian Su-24 jet by Turkey a few days ago.  Ex-general Sabit Muhammad told Russian media sources that Russia […]

Turkish police used pepper spray against activists who showed up to show support for the Turkish journalists who were arrested for treason following the publication of what Turkey deemed, “top secret” information about the transport […]

A Swedish court has ruled that internet service providers cannot be forced to block file-sharing website The Pirate Bay, despite the music industry’s demands that Europe block them for alleged copyright violations.  The District Court […]

Demonstrators in Greece have set fire to American and Turkish flags to express their strong condemnation of the recent downing of a Russian jet by Turkey. They also demanded that Greece pull out of NATO. […]