Turkey has dismissed 1,389 personnel from the armed forces for suspected links to the US-based cleric it blames for orchestrating a failed coup, state-run Anadolu Agency reported on Sunday. It gave no other details. The report comes hours after President Tayyip Erdogan said he planned several changes to the armed ...
Beijing has confirmed it is investigating a Japanese suspected of “endangering China’s national security”, following Japanese reports that he had been detained, the latest irritant in relations between the two nations. The foreign ministry gave the confirmation in a statement quoted by China’s Global Times newspaper late Saturday, but did ...