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Turkey turns down Haitian murder extradition request

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Haitian
  • Samir Handal was arrested at Istanbul Airport in November after arriving from the United States.
  • President Jovenel Moise was shot last July at his home in Port-au-Prince.
  • Handal’s lawyers argued that Interpol’s “red notice” has been lifted.

 

A Turkish court denied an extradition request for a suspect detained in connection with the murder of Haitian President Jovenel Moise last year according to local media.

Samir Handal was arrested at Istanbul Airport in November after arriving from the United States with Haitian, Jordanian, and Palestinian passports.

At the time, Haiti’s serving foreign minister Claude Joseph called Handal “one of the people of greatest interest to the investigation”.

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Police break up Istanbul Pride march, detain over 150

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Pride march

Turkish police on Sunday forcibly stops Pride march in Istanbul. The governor’s office had banned the march around Taksim Square. Police detained protesters, loading them into buses. Turkish police on Sunday forcibly intervened in a Pride march in Istanbul, detaining more than 150 demonstrators and an AFP photographer, AFP journalists on the ground and an … Read more

Iran top diplomat to visit Turkey after Israeli charges of attacks

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Iran

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian will visit Ankara on Monday. Visit comes four days after Israel thanked Turkey for foiling an alleged Iranian assassination plot. Israel advised its citizens to leave Turkey due to the “real and immediate danger” posed by Iranian operatives.   Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian will visit Ankara on Monday after … Read more

Iran rejects Israeli charges of attacks in Turkey

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Iran Rejects

Iran dismisses as “ridiculous” claims made by Israel’s foreign minister that Iran was planning attacks in Turkey. Foreign ministry spokesman says baseless allegations are part of a pre-designed plot to destroy relations. Tensions have ratcheted up after a string of high-profile incidents that Tehran has blamed on Israel.   Iran dismissed as “ridiculous” claims made … Read more

Israel thanks Turkey for thwarting Iranian assassination plot

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Israel thanks Turkey

Israel last week urged its citizens to leave Turkey because of the “real and immediate danger” coming from Iran. It is still keeping Istanbul at its highest level of travel warning while putting the rest of Turkey on the second-highest alert. The two countries are also probing the prospects of reviving an abandoned gas pipeline … Read more

Turkey detained eight Iranians targeting Israeli tourists

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turkey

The eight were arrested at three homes in Istanbul’s popular Beyoglu neighbourhood. Iran has blamed Israel for the murder of Revolutionary Guards Colonel Sayyad Khodai. The reported detentions are likely to come up during Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid’s visit to Ankara. ISTANBUL: Turkey nabbed eight people suspected of working for an Iranian intelligence group … Read more

Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman to visits Turkey

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Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman will visit Turkey for the first time since Jamal Khashoggi’s murder. Saudi Arabia is seeking investment and central bank support from the exact countries it once opposed. Erdogan’s government, which is based on Islam, slowly released gory details about the murder. Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler will travel to Turkey … Read more

Turkey arrests 31 ex-military for suspected coup links

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military

The suspects were apprehended in 16 provinces in concurrent operations led by prosecutors from the western city of Izmir. Turkish security services have detained 31 former military officers, including a former colonel. Prosecutors alleged that the arrested military servicemen were suspected members of a movement led by U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen and blamed for July … Read more

Israel urges nationals to leave Turkey over Iran attack threat

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Israel

Israel’s Foreign Minister Yair Lapid urges Israeli citizens in Turkey to leave. He cites reports of Iranian operatives planning attacks on Israelis in Istanbul. Tehran has accused Israel of carrying out a series of assassinations. Yair Lapid, Israel’s Foreign Minister, urged Israeli citizens in Turkey to leave “as soon as possible” amid reports that Iranian … Read more

Turkey says lifting of Russian sanctions on grain exports ‘legitimate’

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russian sanctions

Turkey and Russia call for an end to sanctions to let Ukrainian grain enter global market. Sanctions imposed on Moscow’s financial system have hampered Russian grain and fertiliser exports. Cavusoglu offered to organise a meeting to examine the UN plan’s contents in Istanbul. Turkey’s foreign minister termed Russian requests for an end to sanctions to … Read more

Anti-femicide group goes on trial in Turkey

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Turkey

Several hundred women protested outside Istanbul’s main court on Wednesday, accusing a famous Turkish anti-femicide campaign group of acting outside the law and morals. Prosecutors had filed a lawsuit in April against We Will Stop Femicide Platform, one of the country’s leading feminist organizations. If convicted, the group could be shut down. Protesters outside the … Read more

Turkey expects Finland ,Sweden to take steps in support of NATO bids: FM

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russian sanctions

Mevlut Cavusoglu, Turkish Foreign Minister, stated that Turkey wants Sweden and Finland to take tangible actions and cease “supporting terrorist organisations” in exchange for Ankara’s lifting of objections to the two nations’ NATO membership. “Both countries need to take concrete steps. Our expectation is not something impossible. They have to stop supporting terrorism if they … Read more

Turkey police detain dozens after May Day clashes

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Turkey

More than 160 protestors were detained by Turkish police on Sunday as they attempted to stage a May Day rally in defiance of a ban enforced by the governor’s office. AFP images showed riot police clashing with protesters near Istanbul’s Taksim Square, pinning some of them forcefully to the ground before rounding them up in … Read more

Executions, detentions hang over Saudi legal reforms

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Saudi

Saudi Arabia is pushing to redesign its harsh justice system however reforms are overshadowed by means of executions and hard treatment of dissidents, elevating questions about how a lot will exchange. The nation is known for its strict interpretation of Islamic sharia law, which paperwork the premise of its judicial gadget. But in recent months … Read more

Germany summons Turkish envoy over Kavala’s jailing

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Germany

Germany summoned Turkey’s ambassador on Friday over the imprisonment of Osman Kavala, a vocal critic of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan according to a foreign ministry official, “I can tell you that we summoned the Turkish ambassador to the foreign ministry today and made the government’s position very clear once again,” the spokesman told a … Read more

Turkey’s Erdogan meets Saudi leaders

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saudi

In his first visit after the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to “develop” relations. The Saudi state news agency SPA released photographs of Erdogan hugging Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the de facto ruler who US intelligence agencies say ordered … Read more

Erdogan tells Putin ‘ready to take initative’ on Ukraine

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Turkish President

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Russia’s Vladimir Putin on Thursday that Ankara was capable to do more to end the war situation in Ukraine after helping arrange a Russian-US prisoner swap. Erdogan’s official stated that Putin “thanked” the Turkish leader on a  phone call for help, to put together Wednesday’s exchange of ex-Marine Trevor … Read more

Erdogan to visit Saudi Arabia on Thursday: Turkish official

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Erdogan

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will fly to Saudi Arabia on Thursday, an official told AFP, in his first visit on account that Riyadh critic Jamal Khashoggi’s killing within the state’s Istanbul consulate in 2018. The two-day trip comes after an Istanbul court docket this month ruled to halt the trial in absentia of 26 … Read more

Turkish intellectual Kavala, Erodgan’s unlikely sworn foe

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Osman Kavala

Osman Kavala, sentenced Monday to life in prison without the possibility of parole, has been thrust from relative obscurity into a symbol of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s intolerance of dissent in the wake of a failed 2016 coup. Bearded, tender-spoken, and gaunt, the 64-yr-old intellectual’s destiny modified the instant he landed in Istanbul from … Read more

Jailed Turkish campaigner awaits verdict after marathon trial

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Turkish

A main Turkish rights defender expects to learn Monday if he can stroll free after more than four years in prison without conviction or whether he’s going to spend the rest of his days behind bars. The marathon trial of Paris-born philanthropist Osman Kavala has gnawed on Turkey’s ties with Western allies given his arrest … Read more

Turkey’s jailed rights defender makes final appeal before verdict

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tURKEY

One of Turkey’s most well-known detainees appeared in court on Friday for what could be his final hearing in a case that has come to symbolize Ankara’s tense relations with the West. Osman Kavala, a Paris-born activist and philanthropist, was relatively unknown when he was detained at Istanbul’s airport in October 2017 after returning from … Read more

Russia attacking Ukraine with weaponry smuggled in by Iran

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According to members of Iranian-backed Iraqi militias and regional security agencies with knowledge of the operation, Russia is getting munitions and military gear from Iraq for its war effort in Ukraine via Iranian arms smuggling networks. Following the collapse of Moscow’s campaign last month, the Guardian has learnt that RPGs and anti-tank missiles, together with … Read more

Turkey’s inflation woes pit tenants against landlords

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turkey

ISTANBUL: Kicked out in the middle of a harsh Turkish winter, 30-year-old Erdem Yilmaz calculated that he spent two and a half months’ salary to urgently relocate to a new home in Istanbul. The father of a two-year-old is not the only Turk in this situation after last year’s currency crisis. Disputes between homeowners and … Read more

Istanbul skyline row erupts over new build near iconic mosque

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blue mosque

ISTANBUL – The soaring minarets of the 16th-century Suleymaniye mosque paint the postcard image of Istanbul, but that is now blighted by rickety wooden scaffolding at a nearby construction site, sparking fury on social media. The latest row over Istanbul’s skyline has seen opponents of the new building attack botched restoration work and calls for … Read more

Turkey says migrant toll at Greek border up to 19

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greece

ISTANBUL – The frozen bodies of seven more migrants have been discovered close to the Greek border, Turkish officials said on Thursday, bringing the death toll in the diplomatically-charged incident to 19. Turkey accuses border guards in neighbour Greece of allowing the migrants to die in the winter cold after stripping them of their clothes … Read more

Car crashes into tram tracks due to a driver’s mistake in Istanbul

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Car

After the fire service and police were notified, the car was eventually taken out. Fortunately, no one was injured. Surveillance video from Istanbul, Turkey’s capital, shows a car driving on tram lines, much to the surprise of people who are on the platform waiting for a tram. Read more: Murree Incident: How to survive in … Read more

Turkish crisis turns books into vanishing luxuries

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Turkish

ISTANBUL: Turkish doctoral student Gulfer Ulas saw the first edition of her favourite Thomas Mann collection published for 33 liras. She found the second print of the same two-volume set selling months later at her Istanbul book shop for 70 liras (about $6 at the latest exchange rate). The jump exemplifies the debilitating unpredictability of Turkey’s … Read more

Lira plunges again after Erdogan defends rate cuts

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Erdogan

ISTANBUL: Turkey’s troubled lira nosedived on Monday after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan justify not to raise the interest rates to stabilise the currency. Erdogan has pushed the central bank to sharply lower borrowing costs, despite the annual rate of inflation soaring to more than 20 per cent. Economists believe the policy could see consumer price increases … Read more

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