Turkey’s main opposition leader on Saturday opened a four day “justice congress” highlighting alleged injustices under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, saying the country has a “thirst for justice”. Kemal Kilicdaroglu, head of the secular Republican People’s Party (CHP), spoke to thousands gathered for the event at an open-air site in ...
Iraqi forces, backed by Hashd Shaabi volunteer forces (also known as Popular Mobilizattion Forces” managed on Saturday to drive ISIL Takfiri group from its Tal Afar bastion, as they liberated the city center and raised the country’s flag atop its Ottoman-era citadel. “Units of the Counter-Terrorism Service liberated the Citadel ...