The death toll from a suspected suicide bombing at a wedding in the south east of Turkey has risen to 51 people, according to the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. He said the suicide bomber was a 12-14-year-old child. President Erdogan confirmed in a statement to the public broadcaster NTV that 51 people had died in the bombing, while 69 injured people are being treated at hospitals around... 

The Islamic State responded to statements by Pope Francis that their war is not religious in nature. ISIS disagrees. ISIS tells the Socialist Pope that the Islamic State is in a war against the infidels approved by Allah. Despite Pope Francis trying hard to appease Muslims by washing their feet and inviting Imams to Vatican he is still HATED by Islam and its followers because these people do not seek... 

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah agreed with Donald Trump in a speech on Saturday. The Shiite leaders told supporters the Obama administration founded ISIS. The Hill reported: The leader of Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group agreed with Donald Trump when he said President Obama founded ISIS. “This is an American presidential candidate who is saying this. What he says is based on facts and documents,”... 

President of Russia Vladimir Putin (right) and President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the news conference following the Russian-Turkish talks in the Konstantinovsky Palace. Speculation Turkey has given up hope of joining the EU, means it is looking for assistance and friendship elsewhere in the region, with Russia being a key factor in the game, said Peter Schulze from the University of Goettingen. Russian... 

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has issued an ultimatum to the US, saying it must choose between Turkey and the US-based Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom Ankara believes was behind the failed July 15 coup attempt. “Sooner or later the US will make a choice […] Either the coup-plotting terrorist FETO [Gulenist Terror Organization, term used by non-Gulenists] or the democratic country... 

Israeli builders Magal Security Systems, Inc. announced this week they would be interested in building Donald Trump’s great border wall on the border with Mexico. Magal Securities built the wall on the Gaza-Israeli border to keep terrorists out of Israel. The Jerusalem Post reported: Trump sparked outrage in Mexico with his campaign vow to build a wall along the southern US border to keep out illegal... 

Some 7,000 armed police in heavy vehicles surrounded the Incirlik air base used by NATO forces in Adana in what a Turkish minister called a “security check.” With no official explanation, speculations have arisen about a new coup attempt or VIP visit. Protesters chant ‘Allahu Akbar’ & ‘Go Home USA’ outside Incirlik air base. Hurriyet reported earlier that Adana police... 

Tensions continue to simmer between Washington and Riyadh: the publication of the 28 pages of the Congressional Inquiry into the 9/11 tragedy is just one link in the chain of events indicating that US-Saudi relations are deteriorating steadily. The US-Saudi relationship is on its way to an all-time low. The publication of the 28 pages of Congressional Inquiry into the 9/11 terrorist attacks and renewed... 

US and coalition airstrikes against the northern Syrian villages of Tokhar and Hoshariyeh have killed at least 56 civilians, including 11 children, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Other groups claimed the civilian toll was as high as 200. The villages are ISIS-held villages near the city of Manbij, which US-backed rebels are attacking. This civilian toll comes less than 24 hours... 

Turkey’s purge of Gulen supporters continued on Saturday with the closure of hundreds of private schools, charities and other institutions suspects of links with the US-based cleric. Ankara declared a state of emergency after a failed military coup. The decree issued by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is his first since the state of emergency was declared on Wednesday. He has ordered the closure... 

Turkey has revoked the licenses of 21,000 teachers working in private institutions, an Education Ministry official told Reuters. It’s the latest in a string of crackdowns on workers allegedly tied to the exiled cleric blamed for last week’s coup attempt. “The licenses of 21,000 teachers working in privately-run institutions have been cancelled. Tip-offs that these [people] are mostly... 

Despite a massive cyberattack on its website, WikiLeaks has published the first batch of nearly 300,000 emails from the Turkish ruling AKP party’s internal server and thousands of attached files in response to the Ankara government’s widespread post-coup purges. Some 294,548 emails pertaining to Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Justice & Development Party (AKP) were made public on... 

The pilots linked to the downing of the Russian Su-24 jet in November are among those who were arrested for plotting Friday’s attempted military coup in Turkey, Turkey’s Minister of Justice Bekir Bozdag confirmed Tuesday. “Among those arrested for plotting the military coup are the pilots who shot down the Russian jet,” CNN Turki cited Bosdag as saying. Earlier, mayor of the... 

Looking back at the failed Turkish coup, one question that nobody has been able to answer is why, if the coup was indeed a serious attempt at government overthrow, did the organizers not do the first thing that military coups have done since time immemorial: either capture, or simply eliminate the existing ruler, the vacationing president Erdogan? The following brief story will only add to the confusion... 

A crackdown on the military and the judiciary in the wake of a failed coup attempt has led to the detention of thousands of soldiers and judges and prosecutors, including commanders and top court members. Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ on July 17 said around 6,000 suspects, including at least 2,839 soldiers and thousands of judiciary members, have been detained as part of a wide-scale operation...