Foreign Ministry

Turkish opposition questions why policeman were sent by Erdo?an to meet Gadhafi

A deputy leader of the main opposition party has questioned the testimony of a suspect in the case over the wiretapping of then-Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo?an, who said Erdo?an sent him to Libya to meet Moammar Gadhafi several times in private. 

5 million Turkish people wiretapped in one year: Interior minister

Some 5 million people in Turkey were listened in on in 2012, Interior Minister Efkan Ala has stated, referring to a calculation that around 250,000 people who were wiretapped spoke to at least 20 people on the phone. He blamed officers affiliated with the movement of U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen for the scandal.

Republic of bans

From 2010 to July 2014, there were 149 publication and broadcast bans in Turkey. As of January 2015, this number exceeded 155. In four years, there have been 155 bans. 

Turkey is now the hell of media bans. 

Not the full 155, but several selected examples will come to mind. 

Ankara condemns Sargsyan remarks in Turkish-Armenian war of words

The spokesperson of Turkish President Erdo?an and the Foreign Ministry strongly reacts to remarks by Armenian leader Sargsyan Both the spokesperson of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an and the Turkish Foreign Ministry strongly reacted to recent remarks by Armenian leader Serzh Sargsyan in response to an invitation by Erdo?an. 

Turkey's test with the Holocaust

This week, Jan. 27 was International Holocaust Remembrance Day. It was the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz exterminatiom camp by Soviet soldiers. It was also a historic day for Turkey since for the first time its capital, Ankara, hosted a Holocaust commemoration ceremony.

Dacic: Attack on Gen. Dikovic aimed at weakening VS, gov't

BELGRADE - Serbia's First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said Friday that political stability was one of the basic conditions for Serbia's progress and any attempt at damaging the reputation and credibility of the Serbian Armed Forces (VS) was an act against the prosperity of the country.

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