ISTANBUL, Jan 12 (Reuters) – President Tayyip Erdogan’s government has cracked down more aggressively on dissent and political opponents ahead of Turkish elections with censorship and prison sentences, Human Rights Watch said on Thursday. Presidential and parliamentary elections are set for no later than mid-June but Erdogan has said they could come earlier .Polls show …
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LONDON (AP) – Western fears that a Russian invasion of Ukraine is imminent have eased but not disappeared.Diplomatic efforts to avert war got new energy this week after Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russia was willing to discuss security issues with NATO, and Russia said it was withdrawing some of its troops gathered near Ukraine´s …
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A British woman accused of hurling her boyfriend 100ft to his death from a hotel balcony in Turkey has been conditionally released from custody. Mary Meyers Kayley, 31, denies killing her boyfriend Reece Pegram, 22, in Antalya in a fit of jealousy after a drunken argument on March 12, 2021. The British couple had been on …
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