Items by Anadolu Agency
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- July 1, 2024 Anadolu Agency
Western nations have forsaken ‘core values’ in Gaza: Veteran Malaysia statesman Mahathir Mohamad
Veteran Malaysian statesman, Mahathir Mohamad, in a broadside at the Western nations said “core values”, including the right to and sanctity of life, have been abandoned by the US and European nations in Gaza. Mahathir, who led Malaysia three times as one of the world’s longest-serving prime ministers, told Anadolu...
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- June 28, 2024 Anadolu Agency
Vote left or abstain: Muslims face stark election choice in France
For France, the writing seems to be on the wall: the general elections, starting this Sunday, could well bring the far-right to power. Not only would it plunge the country into unchartered political territory, but for minority communities, especially Muslims, it could prove to be a death knell for their...
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- June 27, 2024 Anadolu Agency
How could Iran's foreign policy shape up after the presidential election?
Iran’s snap presidential election on Friday is shaping up to be a closer-than-expected contest between one reformist and two conservative candidates, with pre-election polls showing them evenly poised. Masoud Pezeshkian, a veteran lawmaker and the consensus candidate of the reformist alliance, started off as a low-profile contender, but has gradually...
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- June 27, 2024 Anadolu Agency
Israel’s ‘genocidal policies’ have to change for peace in Palestine: Nobel Peace laureate Mairead Maguire
Peace for Palestinians is possible, but only if the Israeli government gives up its “genocidal policies”, according to Nobel Peace laureate, Mairead Maguire. “You cannot build peace on genocide and that, tragically, is what’s happening to the Palestinian people,” Maguire, co-recipient of the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize, said in an...
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- June 20, 2024 Anadolu Agency
UN experts warn States, firms to stop supplying arms to Israel or face accountability
The transfer of weapons and ammunition to Israel may constitute serious violations of human rights and international humanitarian law, as well as State complicity in international crimes, possibly including genocide, UN experts said on Thursday. In a statement released in Geneva, UN experts reiterated their call for an immediate halt...
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- June 13, 2024 Anadolu Agency
Western media’s language, narrative erase Israel responsibility, - Palestinian-American journalist
The language and narrative used in the Western media’s coverage of Palestine over the years try to legitimise Israel’s crimes, according to a renowned Palestinian-American journalist and activist, Ali Abunimah. The founder of the Electronic Intifada website, Abunimah told Anadolu that the mainstream media’s use of passive language conceals Israel’s...
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- June 7, 2024 Anadolu Agency
8 months of death and destruction in Gaza
As eight months have passed since Israel launched attacks on the Gaza Strip, the Tel Aviv administration continues to force Palestinians to starve, deliberately targeting civilian settlements and killing tens of thousands of Palestinians, including children and women. Since 7 October, Israel’s bombing of Gaza has killed 36,654 Palestinians, including...
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- June 3, 2024 Anadolu Agency
Gaza ceasefire plan: More tactical pressure or end of US support for Netanyahu?
The new roadmap for a Gaza ceasefire presented by US President Joe Biden has one man particularly worried: Benjamin Netanyahu. In his Friday speech detailing the proposal, Biden made sure to emphasise that the three-phased plan was an “Israeli proposal”, but that has done little to keep people from reading...
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- May 31, 2024 Anadolu Agency
PM: We are working to connect the East to Europe through Iraq, Turkiye
Iraqi Prime Minister, Muhammed Shiya Al-Sudani, stated that Iraq’s mission of being a historical trade route between the East and the West will be revitalised with the Development Road Project, and added: “The Development Road Project will bring together Iraq and Turkiye. It means connecting the East and Europe...
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- May 31, 2024 Anadolu Agency
US doctors back from 'catastrophic' Gaza urge Biden to halt Israel war
Doctors who have recently returned from humanitarian missions in the Gaza Strip have reiterated their call for the Biden administration to put an end to Israel’s deadly war on the besieged Palestinian enclave. “The situation in Gaza, when I was there in March, was already catastrophic and I think we’re...
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- May 29, 2024 Anadolu Agency
US aid pier mired by series of debacles amid mounting 'extraordinary' costs
The goal was to ramp up deliveries of badly needed humanitarian assistance. But hundreds of millions of dollars and thousands of military man hours later, US President Joe Biden’s temporary pier along the Gaza coast is now bound for an Israeli port after suffering embarrassing failures that left it adrift...
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- May 28, 2024 Anadolu Agency
'Creative extremism' amplifies voices in support of Gazan people
As Israel’s attacks on Gaza drew reactions from around the world, the use of “creative extremism” since the beginning of the attacks has played a crucial role in raising awareness about the plight of Gazans. According to information compiled by Anadolu, the concept of “creative extremism” involves pushing the boundaries...
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- May 24, 2024 Anadolu Agency
'Landmark, extraordinary, crucial': Legal scholars hail ICJ order against Israel Rafah offensive
The International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) new ruling which orders Israel to cease its military operation in Rafah and allow “unhindered” aid into Gaza has been welcomed by legal scholars and experts. Commenting on the World Court’s Friday rulings, legal expert, Mark Kersten, called it a “landmark decision”. “Whatever doubt existed...
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- May 22, 2024 Anadolu Agency
West divided over ICC arrest warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant
While the International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Defence Minister, Yoav Gallant, have elicited various responses from Western countries, criticism of the ICC by nations such as the US and the UK indicates that the international community is facing a test of...
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- May 17, 2024 Anadolu Agency
How the 'Angel of Mostar' came to the aid of Gaza children
In the early 1990s, amid the chaos and devastation of war in the Balkans, a British woman emerged as an unlikely hero. Sally Becker, then 30, became known as the “Angel of Mostar” for her daring efforts to deliver aid and evacuate wounded children and their mothers from the besieged...
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- May 16, 2024 Anadolu Agency
‘Pro-Palestine student movement challenging the West's colonial past and present’
The global student movement in solidarity with Palestine is bringing to the fore important questions about the Western world’s hypocrisy and its colonial past and present, according to a prominent Greek social anthropologist and activist. The students are “faced with incredible repression” because of their depth of knowledge and determination...
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- May 15, 2024 Anadolu Agency
'Gaza genocide is second Nakba, but even worse'
Every year, on 15 May, Palestinians observe the anniversary of the Nakba, or Catastrophe in Arabic, when hundreds of thousands were uprooted from their homes and lands by armed Zionists in 1948. But in 2024, 76 years after that harrowing experience took place, this anniversary rings different. Tens of thousands of...
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- May 13, 2024 Anadolu Agency
Will Netanyahu continue to be impervious to mounting pressure for Gaza cease-fire?
While Israel has not clearly shown any intent when it comes to ending its deadly war on Gaza, there is now a certain sense of expectation in some circles that it could soon change its tune. That is stemming from two main factors: Hamas’s acceptance, last week, of a Qatari-Egyptian...
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- May 13, 2024 Anadolu Agency
FACTBOX - Which countries have joined South Africa's genocide case against Israel?
Over the past few months, South Africa’s genocide case against Israel for its ongoing war on Gaza has snowballed into a larger global affair as a raft of countries have either formally applied to intervene or declared their intention to do so. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) gave a...
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- May 10, 2024 Anadolu Agency
'I am anti-Zionist Jew, not anti-Semitic', pro-Palestine Jewish activist says
“If you criticize Israel, you are called anti-Semitic. I want to break this discourse because I am an anti-Zionist Jewish,” said Jewish activist, Dalia Sarig-Fellner. The Austrian activist of Jewish origin is known for the effective demonstrations she organised in Austria to make the voice of the Palestinian people heard...
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- May 10, 2024 Anadolu Agency
Why massive pro-Palestine student movement is facing violent repression
Martin*, a research assistant at the University of Amsterdam, has a busted lip and bruises all over his body. He was caught up in the thick of things as Dutch police launched a violent crackdown on a pro-Palestine camp a few days ago – violent to the point that they...
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- May 3, 2024 Anadolu Agency
Legal experts debunk Israeli, US claims challenging ICC jurisdiction
For days now, there is growing speculation that the International Criminal Court (ICC) is poised to issue arrest warrants against top Israeli officials for the ongoing war on Gaza. Most of the hype has been fuelled by Israel itself, first with regular reports by Israeli news outlets about increasing apprehension...
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- May 2, 2024 Anadolu Agency
Gaza protests on US campuses: Truman, TikTok, and time
Israeli writer and academic, A.B. Yehoshua’s short story, “Facing the Forests”, is an allegory about the Israel-Palestine conflict. Controversial when published in 1963, Yehoshua exposed the reality that Israel was constructed on territory taken from others: the “forest” of the story represents the Israeli state and society, and the...
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- May 2, 2024 Anadolu Agency
International Court of Justice severely limits the transfer of arms to Israel
On 30 April, 2024, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued its Order on Provisional Measures in the case concerning Alleged Breaches of Certain International Obligations in respect of the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Nicaragua v. Germany). Two months earlier, Nicaragua had instituted proceedings before the ICJ because of Germany’s strong...