Syria denied as false and politically-motivated an Amnesty International report claiming that Syrian military police carried out mass hangings over the course of five years. In a statement published on Tuesday, the Syrian Justice Ministry rejected the account of mass hangings at Saydnaya prison as bogus and devoid of truth, ...
The Turkish authorities have ordered the dismissal of nearly 4,500 civil servants in the latest wave of a purge after last July’s attempted coup, according to a decree published on Tuesday. The Official Gazette said 4,464 people had been fired, including 2,585 employees of the education ministry, 893 members of ...
