LONDON (AA) – Stockholm University has apologized to a Turkish student whose internship application was rejected by a Swedish professor over the country’s pending NATO membership bid. Fatma Zehra S., a third-year undergraduate studying psychology at Istanbul’s Ibn Haldun University, was accepted by the EU’s Erasmus+ program for a summer 2023 i...
ANKARA (AA) – France has expressed concern over a recent decision by Israel to impose punitive measures on Palestinians for having requested an advisory opinion by the International Court of Justice on the Israeli occupation. “We express our deep concern regarding the Israeli government’s decision to impose punitive measures ...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Monday urged Bosnia and Herzegovina to “refrain from divisive rhetoric”. Stoltenberg’s remarks came after he met a Bosnian member of Bosnia’s tripartite presidency, Denis Becirovic, in Brussels. “The Secretary-General urged all political lead...
ANKARA (AA) – Türkiye has criticized Sweden along with other European states over tolerating what it considers “a continuing terrorist’ presence.” The country’s president has said that the extradition of “terrorists” is necessary for the Nordic country to earn the right to enter NATO. “We’v...
PARIS (AA) – Nearly 12,000 people held a march Monday in the French city of Strasbourg to show solidarity with anti-government protesters in Iran. The demonstrators marched towards the European Parliament building chanting slogans and demanding that the European Union declare Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a “terror...
ISTANBUL (AA) – A Turkish university student whose internship application was rejected by a Swedish professor over the country’s pending NATO membership bid is still waiting for an official apology. Fatma Zehra S., a third-year undergraduate studying psychology at Istanbul’s Ibn Haldun University, was accepted by the EU’s Erasmus+ program for ...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The Biden administration is preparing to ask Congress to approve a $20 billion sale of F-16 fighter jets to Türkiye in tandem with sales of F-35 fighters to Greece according to a recent . The sale “is larger than expected” and includes 40 F-16 fighters and modernization kits for 79 of the […]
LONDON (AA) – British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has called Iran’s execution of a British-Iranian national a “cowardly act.” The premier denounced the killing, terming it an act committed by “a barbaric regime with no respect for the human rights of their own people.” Earlier, the Iranian judiciary had announced t...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran summoned the British ambassador in Tehran on Saturday to protest the UK’s “unconventional interventions” in the country’s national security. It came hours after a dual Iranian-Britain national was executed on charges of espionage for the British intelligence agency MI6. Alireza Akbari, a former deputy...
ANKARA (AA) – Turkish Parliament Speaker Mustafa Sentop has cancelled his Swedish counterpart Andreas Norlen’s visit to Türkiye in response to “recent provocations” by supporters of the Kurdish nationalist group PKK in Stockholm. “Swedish Parliament Speaker Norlen’s official visit to Türkiye on January 17 wa...