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Turkey dismisses 6,000 more workers over links to botched putsch

January 6, 2017 By administrator

Demonstrators shout slogans during a protest against a purge of thousands of education staff since an attempted coup in July, in front of the main campus of Istanbul University at Beyazit Square in Istanbul, Turkey, on November 3, 2016. (Photo by Reuters)

Turkey has expelled over 6,000 more police personnel, civil servants and academics as the government widens its crackdown on the opposition following the abortive mid-July 2016 coup.

According to a report published by Turkey’s Hurriyet Daily News, Ankara issued three decrees under emergency rule on Friday, dismissing 2,687 police officers, 1,699 officials from the justice ministry, 838 civil servants from the health ministry, 649 academics and 135 officials from the religious affairs directorate.

On Tuesday, the Turkish parliament, dominated by the ruling Justice and Development Party, approved the three-month extension of the country’s state of emergency, which was initially implemented a few days after the coup aimed at toppling President Recep Tayyip Erdogan failed. It also increases the time that suspects can be detained without charges brought against them.

The government can use emergency rule to bypass parliament in introducing new laws and to restrict or suspend rights and freedoms when deemed necessary. Back in October, parliament had extended the state of emergency for a second three-month period.

The putsch began when a faction of the Turkish military declared that it had seized control of the country and the government of President Erdogan was no more in charge. It, however, was suppressed a few hours later, followed by Ankara’s heavy-handed crackdown on those deemed to have played a role in the attempt, which was blamed on the movement led by US-based opposition cleric Fethullah Gulen. The Pennsylvania-based cleric, however, has categorically denied the allegation.

Over 240 people were killed on all sides during the hours that the coup attempt was underway.

More than 40,000 people have been arrested in Turkey on suspicions of having links to Gulen and the failed coup, while more than 100,000 have been sacked or suspended from work over the same accusations.

The crackdown has faced mounting criticism from government and rights campaigners, but Ankara says it will continue the purge to prevent a repetition of the attempt.

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Bulgaria officially dismisses reports on Erdogan’s invitiation

March 3, 2016 By administrator

f56d84b8a5195c_56d84b8a5199c.thumbBulgarian Foreign Ministry’s official spokesperson Betina Zhoteva rejected reports that  Bulgaria had invited Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to celebrate the Day of Liberation from Ottoman oppression. The official representative labeled the rumors as “crude manipulation” and ” not consistent with reality.” Zhoteva’s comments came at a telephone interview with TASS agency.

“Among participants in official celebrations are heads of diplomatic missions accredited in Sofia. Rumors about inviting the Turkish president are a crude manipulation and not consistent with reality,” Zhoteva said.

As reported earlier, Bulgaria invited Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to celebrate the Day of Liberation from Ottoman oppression but did not invite Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters earlier today that the Kremlin has not received an invitation from Bulgaria for Putin to attend the Day of Liberation of Bulgaria but respects this decision of a sovereign country.

Note, that the Day of Liberation in Bulgaria is a national holiday. Bulgaria got its independence after Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78.  As a result of the war, Ottoman Empire was deprived of a large portion of its territory, and the Bulgarian state was established on March 3, 1878.

 

Source Panorama.am

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Libya: The government dismisses the Turkish companies of all public projects (press release)

February 23, 2015 By administrator

 by Ara / armenews

The Libyan government recognized by the international community accuses Ankara of supporting its Islamist rivals, said Sunday she parted the Turkish companies of all public projects.

The government of Abdullah al-Theni decided to “review all the projects awarded to foreign companies and removal of Turkish companies of all projects in the Libyan state,” he said in a statement to Following a meeting of the Board of (…)

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Breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh Dismisses Baku’s Airspace Warning

November 14, 2014 By administrator

By RFE/RL

November 13, 2014

6D6CCF8D-A2EE-459C-8B5E-19B78F234BD1_w640_r1_s_cx0_cy13_cw0Authorities in Azerbaijan’s breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region have dismissed a statement by Baku warning that it declared the airspace over the territory closed.

David Babayan, deputy chief of staff to the president in the region’s self-declared government, said that planes were flying over Nagorno-Karabkh on November 13.

Azerbaijan announced on November 12 that it had closed the airspace after the Azerbaijani military shot down a helicopter belonging to the ethnic-Armenian-controlled territory’s forces.

Azerbaijan said the helicopter was shot down as it “attempted to open fire” on Azerbaijani forces and that its three crew members were killed.

The Nagorno-Karabakh “self-defense” forces said the helicopter was on a training mission, and Armenia’s Defense Ministry called the incident an “unprecedented provocation” by Azerbaijan.

Despite the Azerbaijani declaration of a no-fly zone, Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian made a surprise, but well-publicized visit to the Nagorno-Karabakh region on November 13.

Sarkisian’s press office said he traveled to the disputed region to visit units of the separatist defense forces and meet with the region’s leader.

Armenian-backed separatists seized the mainly Armenian-populated Nagorno-Karabakh region and surrounding areas from Azerbaijan during a war in the early 1990s that killed some 30,000 people and ended with a shaky cease-fire in 1994.

The fresh incident marks the first time a military aircraft has been shot down in the Nagorno-Karabakh region in at least 20 years.

The United States has expressed concern about the downing. U.S. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the incident was “yet another reminder” of the need to reduce tensions and respect a cease-fire in the region.

Psaki told reporters in Washington on November 12 that there could be “no military solution to the conflict.”

The Minsk Group of mediators from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) — which is co-chaired by France, Russia, and the United States — said the incident showed the “urgency to intensify efforts to find a lasting settlement” to the decades-old conflict.

The European Union’s External Action Service issued a statement saying that “it is essential that all sides show restraint and avoid any actions or statements which could escalate the situation. Furthermore, we call for an investigation into this incident.”

Azerbaijani and Armenian forces regularly exchange fire across their frontier and along the Karabakh front line.

An unprecedented spiral of violence this summer — with more than 20 troops killed from both sides — raised concerns of a new war.

It would also contribute to fears of increasing volatility on Russia’s doorstep, with ongoing conflict in Ukraine that Western governments accuse Moscow of having a hand in and Russia’s unrecognized annexation of Crimea; continued tensions over Moldova’s breakaway Transdniester region, where Russian troops are still stationed; and Georgia still grappling with Russian-backed separatists who declared independence in the South Ossetia and Abkhazia regions.

With reporting by RFE/RL’s Armenian and Azerbaijan services, AFP, Interfax, and Trend.az

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Iraqi prime minister dismisses top security officials, fighting rages on (video)

June 17, 2014 By administrator

 Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has forced several security officers to step aside on Tuesday – including Staff Lieutenant General Mahdi al-Gharawi, the top commander for 0,,17710283_303,00the northern province of Nineveh, the first to fall in the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) militant offensive.

Another senior army officer will face court-martial for abandoning their “professional and military duty,” Maliki said in a statement read on state television.

One of the commanders, Hidayat Abdulraheem, fled a battle and would be referred to the military court to be tried in absentia, he added.

Scores dead

Government troops said they had thwarted an insurgent attempt to seize Baquba, the capital of Diyala province north of Baghdad on Tuesday. Officials said militants briefly held areas of Baquba, before taking control of a large area of Tal Afar, a Shiite-majority town in the north.

Officials and locals reported that 44 prisoners, mostly members of ISIS, were killed at a police station in Baquba when an attempt by militants to free them failed. There are conflicting accounts on how they died.

In Tal Afar, militants have taken control of most of the town, but pockets of resistance remain, the AFP news agency reported. Soldiers, police and armed residents held onto parts of the airport, according to Nineveh provincial council deputy chief Nureddin Qabakan.

The Baiji oil refinery north of Baghdad has been shut down, officials said, adding that foreign workers have been evacuated. Reports suggest the compound is still being held by elite government troops, while the nearby town fell to ISIS fighters.

US deploys troops

Washington plans to deploy up to 275 military personnel to protect the US embassy in Baghdad. The troops will be tasked with providing support and security for employees at the consulate. The deployment is the first time the US has sent troops to Iraq since withdrawing forces from the country in 2011.

“This force is deploying for the purpose of protecting US citizens and property, if necessary, and is equipped for combat,” US President Barack Obama said in a letter to Congress lawmakers on Monday. “This force will remain in Iraq until the security situation becomes such that it is no longer needed.”

Militants from ISIS are moving towards the Iraqi capital after a week-long offensive that has overrun swathes of the country to within 60 kilometers (37 miles) of Baghdad.

The ISIS insurgents, who launched their lightening assault on June 9, have since captured Mosul, a city of over two million inhabitants, and a large area of land north of the capital.

jlw/jr (Reuters, AFP, AP, dpa)

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