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Disaster prompts president to lift moratorium on death penalty, a move human rights groups say is ‘a retreat into barbarism’
TURKEY claimed yesterday to have killed nearly 200 Islamic State (Isis) guerillas in cross-border shelling in revenge for Tuesday’s Istanbul bombing.
Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said that the extremists had been “rendered ineffective” — a government code for killed — in the past 48 hours.
“Turkey will continue to punish with even greater force any threat that is directed against Turkey or its guests,” Mr Davutoglu said, in reference to the 10 German tourists killed in the Istanbul suicide bombing.
Israel angered after US president lifts sanctions on Turkey, opening way for potential sale of F-35 fighter jets
VIJAY PRASHAD details how US support for Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa allowed him to break the resistance of the autonomous Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)
