Ethnic groups in Asia

By Nikos Xydakis

The Ukrainian crisis may herald the start of a second Cold War, while there is no shortage of analysts comparing the current international climate to that of 1914 in the runup to World War I.

The Chechen Republic of Ichkeria’s honorary consul in Ankara was killed last year while under the surveillance of Turkish intelligence, his wife has claimed in a new petition.

Two thirds of Russians against sending troops to Ukraine

MOSCOW -- Two thirds of Russians are against sending Russian troops to southeastern Ukraine, according to a poll cited by the Itar-Tass news agency.

It will be clear by the end of this weekend whether there will be a Kurdish force up against the possible candidacy of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. It is still a possibility despite the legal package that Erdoğan submitted to Parliament on June 26 in order to attract, or at least pacify, Kurdish voters for the presidential elections, the first round of which will be held Aug. 10.

The bill submitted to the Parliament for a solution to the Kurdish issue aims to provide a “legal platform” for the process named the “resolution process.”

I found the term I have been looking for almost for 15 years in Ruşen Çakır’s column the other day at daily Vatan.

The memory of late Kyrgyz writer Chingiz Aitmatov was honored in the Turkish capital as Kyrgyzstan’s President Almazbek Atambayev and senior governmental officials from Turkey attended the opening of monument.

Turkey’s Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç met with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in Warsaw during Poland’s celebration marking the 25th anniversary of the end of Communism on May 4.
      

Ukraine's embassy on Thursday commemorated 70 years since the deportation of Crimean Tatars and 153 years since national poet Taras Shevchenko was re-buried in the Ukrainian land.

Mustafa Dzhemilev, the leader of Crimean Tatars, has been refused entry into Russia, Crimea included.

Russian authorities have imposed a ban on Dzhemilev, who is an MP from Prime Minister Yatsenyuk and presidential candidate Tymoshenko's Batkivshchina, until 2019, RBC Daily has reported, citing the Mejlis (the Tatar assembly).