Author: Anadolu Agency
Türkiye’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Sunday said Syria’s territorial integrity is “non-negotiable,” and reaffirmed that there’s no place for the PKK/YPG terror group in the country. “This is not a time to wait and see. We must take action. The territorial integrity of Syria is non-negotiable. We want to reiterate that there is no place for the PKK/YPG in Syria,” Fidan said in a joint news conference with Ahmed al Sharaa, leader of the new Syrian administration, in the capital Damascus. “This terrorist organization is occupying the lands of the Syrian people and stealing their natural resources. In today’s…
Russian President Vladimir Putin is holding talks with Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico in Moscow, the Kremlin announced on Sunday. “Vladimir Putin met Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico in the Kremlin. On the Russian side, Presidential Aide Yuri Ushakov took part in the meeting. Robert Fico is in Moscow on a working visit,” the statement said. In a separate statement, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said “we can easily assume that all issues of the international agenda and the future of the transit of the Russian gas via Ukraine will be discussed” in the meeting scheduled several days ago. Serbian President…
Tens of thousands of Serbians gathered on Sunday in the capital Belgrade demanding accountability over the Nov. 1 collapse of a canopy at a railway station in the northern city of Novi Sad that killed 15 people. Farmers, artists and tens of thousands of people gathered at the Slavija Square on the call of students and farmer unions. “Your hands are bloody,” read one of the banners at the protest venue. People also carried signs that read: “Do you have a clear conscience?” and “Students are the voice of understanding.” President Aleksandar Vucic lifted the secrecy of all documents related…
Egypt’s Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov discussed over phone on Sunday the latest developments in Gaza and Syria, as well as bilateral relations, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry said in a statement. The Egyptian diplomat highlighted Cairo’s “intensive efforts” to achieve an “immediate and lasting cease-fire, enabling the delivery of humanitarian aid to the strip.” Egypt, besides Qatar and the U.S., is part of mediation efforts aimed to end Israel’s war in Gaza that continues since the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attacks. Regarding the situation in Syria, where a new administration has taken charge after the…
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Sunday that Russian President Vladimir Putin has expressed a desire to meet with him as soon as possible to discuss the war in Ukraine. “President Putin said that he wants to meet with me as soon as possible,” Trump said during a speech in Arizona. “We have to wait for this, but we have to end that war. That war is horrible, horrible,” he added. Throughout his campaign to seek a second term as president, Trump repeatedly pledged to end the war in Ukraine within 24 hours if elected. “The number of soldiers being…
US President-elect Donald Trump appointed Brian Burch, an outspoken conservative and president of CatholicVote who is vocal critic of Pope Francis, as the US ambassador to the Vatican. The Vatican, often referred to as the “Holy See,” serves as the headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church, and is led by Pope Francis. . “I am pleased to announce that Brian Burch will serve as the next United States Ambassador to the Holy See,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Friday. Stating that Burch, a vocal critic of pope, is a “devout” Catholic, US President-elect added that Burch has earned “numerous”…
Türkiye is expected to receive larger foreign capital and resource inflows next year as its economy becomes increasingly more stable and incentives investors, Erdal Bahcivan, chairman of the Istanbul Chamber of Industry (ISO), told Anadolu. Bahcivan said the global economy is entering disinflation with inflation going down, especially in the EU. “The political uncertainties in France and Germany will reveal what will happen to Europe, while, the second Trump era’s more protectionist and closed economy becomes a strong discourse, it may bring along a number of other question marks that we cannot fully predict,” said Bahcivan. He highlighted that Türkiye’s…
An investigation by the Israeli army on Saturday disclosed several failed attempts to intercept a ballistic missile launched from Yemen, which struck central Tel Aviv. The missile, fired by Houthi forces, landed in a stadium in the Jaffa area early Saturday creating a large crater, injuring 20 people, and damaging numerous apartments, according to Israeli daily Haaretz. The investigation revealed that the missile was detected and an alert was issued for the central region, according to the Israeli army report. It noted that initial interception attempts using upper-atmosphere defense systems failed outside Israeli borders. Subsequent attempts at lower altitudes also…
The suspect who drove into a crowd of people at a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, killing five people and injuring more than 200 others, is a 50-year-old Saudi doctor described as anti-Islam, and a supporter of far-right and Zionism. German media has named the person as Talib A, who knocked over dozens of people on Friday evening before being arrested by police. The suspect came to Germany in 2006 and had been working as a psychiatrist in Bernburg, south of Magdeburg. His social media posts often expressed concerns about the rise of Islam in Germany. He shared posts in…
Pope Francis on Saturday condemned the recent Israeli airstrikes on Gaza, expressing sorrow over the bombing of children in the Gaza Strip the previous day. “Yesterday, children were bombed. This is not war. This is cruelty. I want to say this because it touches my heart,” he told members of the Roman Curia, the Vatican’s central administration. He also lamented that Israeli airstrikes had prevented Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the highest representative of the Catholic Church in the Holy Land, from entering Gaza. Israel has killed more than 45,000 people, most of them women and children, in Gaza since the Oct.…