Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) on Friday named senior lawmaker Muharrem Ince, known for his fiery and impassioned rhetoric, as its candidate to challenge President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in June 24 elections. The leader of the CHP Kemal Kilicdaroglu, who had already made clear he would not be ...
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says military approaches will fail to resolve the Syrian crisis, stressing that military intervention of certain countries has only prolonged the sufferings of people in the war-stricken state. Zarif was speaking at a joint news conference with his Russian and Turkish counterparts Sergei Lavrov ...