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Iftikhar Gilani
ANKARA - India’s strategic community is divided over the implications of the Modi-led government’s recent move revoking the special status that ensured autonomy and separate citizenship rights to Jammu and Kashmir. The move has already ratcheted up tensions in the region.
While Kanwal Sibal, a former foreign secretary, described the move as “bold and historic”, A. S. Dulat, the former chief of India’s Intelligence Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), said it was fraught with serious consequences.N C Vij, a former army chief, claimed that the issue of Kashmir was now over by this bold move.
Gozde Bayar
ANKARA - Turkey’s top diplomat will pay an official visit to the Sudanese capital Khartoum on Saturday, said a statement by the Turkish Foreign Ministry on Friday.Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu will visit Khartoum to attend the signing ceremony of a power-sharing deal between rival sides in the
country, the statement said.“H.E. Mevlut Çavusoglu, Minister of Foreign Affairs, will visit Khartoum on 17 August 2019 to participate in the signing ceremony of the Constitutional Declaration, which covers arrangements concerning the Transitional Civilian Authority, between the Forces of Freedom and Change and the Transitional...
Gokhan Ergocun
ISTANBUL - The pension fund of the Turkish Armed Forces has reached a preliminary agreement to acquire U.K.-based industrial giant British Steel, said
a written statement on Friday.In line with its regional leadership target, Ataer Holding, a subsidiary of Oyak, the pension fund, made an offer to buy the steel producer, said the statement.
Dilara Zengin
ISTANBUL - Turkey’s first national earth observation satellite, named Rasat, completed its 8th year in orbit.The satellite, with design life of 3 years,
scanned 15 million square kilometers and shot more than 2,800 images in 8 years, head of Space Technologies Research Institute of Turkey’s Scientific and Technological Research Council...
Nilay Kar
RAMALLAH/GAZA/JERUSALEM - The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) warned Thursday that calls by an Israeli government minister to change the status quo at Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque would lead to a “religious war”.In a written statement released after a meeting in Ramallah, the PLO’s Executive Committee said the recent calls are “an attempt to drag the region into a religious...
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