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YEARS 99 Faruk Zorlu ANKARA - A U.S. military delegation led by deputy commander of the U.S. European Command will visit Turkey’s southeastern Sanliurfa province as part of preparations to set up a Joint Operations Center. According to the Turkish National Defense Ministry, following a visit to the Turkish General Staff, the delegation led by Stephen Twitty will head to Sanliurfa... Aamir Latif KARACHI - Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday warned of “another Srebrenica-type massacre and ethnic cleansing of Muslims,” in Jammu and Kashmir following abrogation of long- standing special rights of the disputed region by New Delhi last week. More than 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were killed after Bosnian Serb forces attacked Srebrenica in July 1995, despite the presence of Dutch troops tasked with acting as international peacekeepers. Srebrenica was besieged by Serb forces who were trying to wrest territory from Bosnian Muslims and Croats to... Mahmoud Barakat ISTANBUL - The Yemeni government on Thursday held the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and southern separatists responsible for staging a “coup” on legitimacy in the interim capital Aden. In a statement, the Yemeni Foreign Ministry called on the UAE to immediately stop supporting the “rebel groups”... Elena Teslova MOSCOW - A commercial airliner made an emergency landing near the Russian capital on Thursday, injuring 55 passengers including 17 children. Ural Airlines flight A321 was headed from Moscow to Simferopol with 230 passengers on board when one of its engines was engulfed in flames while in the air, the Emergency Situations Ministry said in a statement. Managing to prevent the fire from spreading to the rest of the aircraft, the crew requested an emergency landing at Zhukovsky Airport, but undershot the landing strip by about one kilometer (0.6 miles). The burning engine detached from... Sena Guler ANKARA - The U.S. will not be able to stall Ankara on the establishment of a safe zone in northern Syria, Turkey’s foreign minister said on Thursday. “What we say is that a U.S. stalling tactic will not work. Unfortunately, they employed such stalling on Manbij [Syrian town], they did not keep their promise,” Mevlut Cavusoglu told a joint news conference with Nabeela F. Tunis, his counterpart from Sierra Leone. The Manbij deal between Turkey and the U.S. focuses on the withdrawal of YPG/PKK terrorists from the city to... Shuriah Niazi NEW DELHI - The entire state of Kashmir is currently a prison and under military control, a fact-finding team of Indian activists who visited the region since the imposition of a lockdown said Wednesday. In their report “Kashmir Caged” released at the Press Club of India, they said people expressed pain, anger, and a sense of betrayal towards... Friday Sunny 31°C WEATHER / ANKARA Friday, August 16, 2019 MORE DETAILS MORE DETAILS MORE DETAILS MORE DETAILS MORE DETAILS MORE DETAILS ‘US stalling on Syria safe zone will not work’ Kashmir in lockdown a military prison 55 injured amid emergency airline landing Pakistan’s PM warns of Srebrenica-style massacre in Kashmir US team to visit Turkey-Syira border UAE ‘responsible for Aden coup’ Turkish foreign minister says preliminary Turkey-US agreement on safe zone is just beginning, many topics need detailing Semiha Berksoy: Turkey’s first female opera singer Culture>> Asia-Pacific>> Pakistani mission in Turkey celebrates Independence Day Football: Turkey eyes to host UEFA EURO 2028 tournament Sports>>
