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Strip searches of women prisoners sparks anger in Turkey

Author:  Zaynab Khojji ID:  1608916409485778300 Fri, 2020-12-25 20:11 ANKARA: Claims that Turkish police routinely strip search women detainees have sparked a war of words between the government and opposition MPs. Pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party MP Omer Faruk Gergerlioglu recently said … read more

Most Turks want Syrian refugees to go home

Author:  Thu, 2020-12-24 22:43 ANAKARA: A new poll showed a hostile picture among Turks to the integration of Syrian refugee population in the country. The survey, entitled “Dimensions of Polarization in Turkey 2020,” was conducted by Istanbul Bilgi University in … read more

Israeli court halts desecration of Muslim cemetery

Thu, 2020-12-24 22:28 AMMAN: The Jerusalem District Court issued a temporary restraining order against the city’s Israeli-run municipality on Thursday, forcing the municipality to cease its conversion of the waqf-owned Al-Yousefieh cemetery into a park. In a press statement issued … read more