Turkish President Erdogan Calls for Renewed Ties with Uzbekistan President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Said on Friday Ties Be- Shavkat Mirziyoyev in Samarkand

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takes over schools of FETO Obama, Merkel demand end to Syrian regime’s bombings Peace in Syria requires the consent of the people but the Bashar al-Assad regime cannot purchase people’s consent through killing them, outgoing U.S. President Barack Obama said Thursday. Speaking at a joint news conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin , Obama ex- pressed determination... >>MORE DETAILS

FETO school staff lose court appeal in Pakistan A high court in the capital Islama- bad has rejected an appeal to extend visas of dozens of Turkish teachers and administrative staff employed So far, over 80 FETO organizations worldwide have been shut down or transferred to the Turkish government by Fetullah Terrorist Organization All FETO-linked schools in Chad were taken over by a Turkish education country and Turkey, an official with the foundation told Anadolu Agen- (FETO)-linked schools in Pakistan, a judicial source said.The Islamabad foundation on Friday in accordance with a protocol signed between the cy/Turkey’s Maarif (Education) Foundation Deputy... >>MORE DETAILS High Court on Thursday... >>MORE DETAILS Turkish President Erdogan calls for renewed ties with Uzbekistan President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday ties be- Shavkat Mirziyoyev in Samarkand. Uzbekistan’s Dec. 4 tween Turkey and Uzbekistan should be developed af- poll follows the death of former ruler Islam Karimov in ter the Central Asian country’s presidential election to September. Karimov had run the country for 27 years. be held on Dec. 4. “In this new period, we must work Mirziyoyev will run in the election for Liberal Demo- to improve our relations in all areas,” Erdogan said cratic Party which the late Karimov had represented. during a meeting with Uzbekistan’s acting President Erdogan said, following the Uzbekistan... >>MORE DETAILS

Turkey denounces Belgian Russia, regime airstrikes kill 94 in Aleppo in 48 hours PM’s remarks on Erdogan Turkish Foreign Ministry spokes- fact that the leaders of EU countries, man Huseyin Muftuoglu on Thurs- who comment on other countries day denounced Belgian Prime Min- every day -- regarding it as a right ister Charles Michel’s response to for them -- are interpreting [Erdo- FETO/PDY’s extradition backer President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s gan’s remarks] as an intervention recent remarks about terrorist ac- in their own country … constitutes Flynn tapped for Trump Cabinet tivity in the EU country. Describing an example of the double-standard Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn has been the Belgian leader’s comments as politics of the EU countries …. “We tapped by President-elect Donald an example of a “double standard” evaluate Michel’s remarks in this Trump to be his National Security in EU politics, Muftuoglu said:“The perspective.” >>MORE DETAILS Advisor, according to multiple re- ports Thursday.The Democratic for- Over 5,300 new companies mer Defense Intelligence. >>MORE DETAILS Questions asked of British Ninety-four civilians have been ian regime warplanes -- within the formed in Turkey in October killed in airstrikes on besieged dis- same period. Following three weeks police after pro-PKK rallies Some 5,314 new companies were set last year. The union also said 983 tricts of eastern Aleppo over the past of relative calm, opposition-held The activities of PKK sympathizers up in Turkey in October, the Turk- companies went out of business 48 hours, local civil defense sources parts of Aleppo have come under in London over the past two weeks ish Union of Chambers and Com- in the month, which was an in- said Thursday. Najib al-Ansari, an fierce bombardment since Tuesday is coming under more scrutiny, with modity Exchanges (TOBB) said in crease of 52.64 percent compared Aleppo-based civil defense official, afternoon, according to local sourc- questions being asked as to why a report released on Friday. The to the same month last year. The told Anadolu Agency that at least es. Al-Ansari said the latest spate of backers of an illegal group are al- number of newly-established com- chamber’s report showed 352 for- 150 others had been injured in air- attacks featured the use of cluster lowed to gather and mobilize pub- panies in October rose by 3.53 per- eign-partnered or foreign-funded strikes -- which, he said, were being and vacuum munitions, as well as licly. Groups of protestors carrying cent compared to the same month new companies being...>> MORE DETAILS conducted by both Russian and Syr- barrel bombs. >>MORE DETAILS PKK flags. >>MORE DETAILS