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Turkey has launched a wide-ranging purge of the army and civilian state institutions following the failed coup aimed at unseating President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Ankara blames the rebellion on his arch-foe, the US-based Turkish preacher Fethullah Gulen, accusing him of running the "Fethullah Terror Organisation" (FETO). |
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) Vice President Joe Biden and U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch are scheduled to speak at a Baton Rouge vigil honoring the three law enforcement officers who were killed by a gunman during a shootout outside a convenience store. Louisiana Gov. |
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Turkey's top military commanders met Thursday to replace almost half of their generals in a radical shake-up after the failed coup, as authorities shut down dozens of media outlets in a widening crackdown. The hastily convened meeting came after the government ordered the discharge of 149 generals.... |
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ANKARA: Turkey's top military commanders met Thursday (Jul 28) to replace almost half of their generals in a radical shake-up after the failed coup, as authorities shut down dozens of media outlets in a widening crackdown. The hastily convened meeting came after the government ordered the discharge.... |
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REUTERS. "There is one word I wish to say to clarify." "When I speak about "war" I'm speaking about a war for real, not a "war of religions." It is," he continued, "a war about (economic) interests, money, natural resources and the domination of peoples." All religions, he said, "desire peace. Other people want war. |
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ANKARA : Turkey’s top military commanders will decide Thursday on one of the most radical shake-ups in the history of the country’s armed forces, as authorities shut down dozens of media outlets in a widening crackdown after a failed coup. The government ordered the closure of a total of 131.... |
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EPA People pay tribute at a makeshift memorial near the Saint Etienne church, where priest Jacques Hamel was killed, in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, near Rouen. Picture: Ian Langsdon Rouen - A grandfather was forced to film two IS fanatics on a smartphone as they slaughtered an elderly French priest.... |
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The hastily convened meeting came after the government ordered the discharge of 149 generals -- nearly half the armed forces' entire contingent of 358 -- for complicity in the putsch bid. In a separate move, a total of 131 newspapers, TV channels and other media outlets were being shut down. |
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The second culprit behind an ISIS-linked attack that killed a priest in a church was a teenager reportedly known to security services as a potential Islamist militant. French judicial sources told NBC News that 19-year-old Abdel-Malik Nabil Petitjean, was identified from his DNA. |
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to transfer their trust in him to the Democrat he wants to succeed him: “Tonight, I ask you to do for Hillary Clinton what you did for me,” he said. Mr. Obama rebuked Donald Trump by name eight times while offering his ringing endorsement of Mrs. Clinton.
Her running mate, Tim Kaine , offered his impression of Mr. |
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By Noemie Olive. SAINT-ETIENNE-DU-ROUVRAY, France (Reuters) - Knife-wielding attackers interrupted a French church service, forced the priest to his knees and slit his throat on Tuesday, a murder made even more shocking as one of the assailants was a known would-be jihadist under supposedly tight surveillance. |
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