Turkey’s pro-Kurdish party is to boycott a parliamentary vote on a controversial new draft constitution aimed at giving President Recep Tayyip Erdogan greater powers, in protest over the arrest of its MPs. “We will not use our vote for this illegitimate reform while our deputies are unjustly under arrest and ...
Huge crowds of mourners streamed into the streets of Tehran to pay their final respects to Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei led mass prayers for the body of Ayatollah Rafsanjani, a former Iranian president and chairman of the Expediency Council, who ...
