Sweden can “no longer expect” Turkish support for its NATO bid after Koran-burning protests broke out in Stockholm, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has claimed. The protests had been given prior approval by Swedish authorities. However, burning the holy Islamic book was not
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his country will oppose Sweden’s bid to join NATO, citing pro-Kurdish protests in Stockholm this weekend. Turkey has long faulted Sweden for its tolerance of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, a group Turkey, the U.S.
Turkey on Tuesday denounced as “absurd” a decision by a Swedish prosecutor not to open an investigation into a protest by Kurds in central Stockholm where an effigy of the Turkish president was hung from a lamppost. Last week’s protest outside Stockholm
German riot police have managed to get themselves stuck in the mud during a stand-off with eco-activists in the village of Luetzerath in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Footage shared on social media shows officers struggling to free one another and themselves
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Thousands of police descended on the climate protest on Wednesday as German authorities moved to evict eco-activists who have been running a long-running protest over coal mining in the area. During the police operation, a Molotov cocktail was thrown along with stones and
Several hundred climate activists on Tuesday were trying to block the entry of heavy machinery into an abandoned village in Germany which is due to be cleared for the expansion of a coal mine after a German court rejected a last-ditch attempt
Tehran handed down two death penalty sentences this week to two teenagers who were involved in the nationwide demonstrations protesting the Khamenei regime and who were deemed to have waged “enmity against God” and “corruption on Earth.” Arshia Takdastan, 18, was sentenced
Women took to the streets of Kabul to protest the removal of their education though the demonstrations were quickly shut down by Taliban officials. Protesters from the Afghanistan Women’s Unity and Solidarity group said: “Today we come out on the streets of
A video has emerged showing women in the city of Herat, in western Afghanistan, being sprayed with water cannons at a protest against the Taliban’s banning of female students from the country’s universities. The footage captures the moment a woman is blown