Ethnic groups in Asia

While Israel and Iraq do not hold any official diplomatic relations, the countries’ two beauty queens on Tuesday made a bold move by deciding to pose together for a picture each posted to her official Instagram account while attending this year’s Miss International Beauty Pageant in Japan.

A 21-year-old Serbian citizen has been stabbed to death in Vienna, Austria, in a fight that broke out in the night between Saturday and Sunday.

A 22-year-old Bulgarian citizen was seriously wounded during the incident, that involved a group of Afghans and Chechens.

Athens lashed out Tuesday against the annual celebrations of Turkish Cypriots marking 53 years since Turkish jets dropped napalm bombs on the island.

A Foreign Ministry statement said the celebrations, with the participation of Turkish-Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci, were an "affront to international justice."

STUNNING footage shows how inhabitants of a remote island in the Indian Ocean try to kill anybody attempting to visit them.
The villagers of North Sentinel Island, located between India and Burma, fired arrows at a passing camera crew who tried to document their way of living from the sea and air.

Turkish authorities have arrested two Chinese citizens in relation to the mass shooting at a night club in Istanbul on New Year's Eve, reported BGNES.

The detainees are Uyghurs - a Turkic ethnic group in northwest China.

War, as American satirist Ambrose Bierce wrote, may be "a by-product of the arts of peace." Since the Turks (in the majority) and Kurds (in the minority) shook hands to live happily ever after with the foundation of a common state based on a common religion they, in a time of peace, have always prepared for war.

A 13-year-old Syrian boy, who was beheaded after refusing to give a man his weekly wage of 50 Turkish liras, or roughly $17, in the southeastern province of Gaziantep, was laid to rest on March 27.

A Turkish man wanted by Russia for allegedly killing one of the two pilots of the Russian jet downed by Turkey near the Turkish-Syrian border in late 2015 has appeared at a funeral ceremony in Istanbul, saying he would go back to Syria.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces have intensified the shelling of K?z?lda?, a strategic point in northwestern Syria controlled by Turkmen forces, daily Hürriyet has reported.

Regime forces had made significant progress around Turkmen Mountain and its environs during clashes over the last 12 days before eventually facing Turkmen resistance just in front of the Turkish border.

Turkey has called for a U.N. Security Council meeting to discuss attacks on Turkmens in neighbouring Syria, sources in the prime minister's office said, days after Ankara summoned the Russian ambassador in protest over "intensive" bombing of villages.