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January 30, 2014

Turkey’s former Chief of the General Staff gets life sentence

A Turkish court has convicted the country’s former Chief of the General Staff to life imprisonment. Retired General Mehmet İlker Başbuğ was sentenced for his role in the “Ergenekon...

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January 30, 2014

Turkey appoints new armed forces leadership

The Turkish government has appointed a new armed forces leadership within the framework of comprehensive changes to emphasise its control over the military, which has at times dominated political...

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January 30, 2014

EU special envoy visits Rabaa Al-Adawiyya to search for weapons

Muslim Brotherhood spokesman, Gehad Al-Haddad, said he accompanied the EU envoy, Bernardino Lion, to Rabaa Al-Addawiyya to verify whether or not there were weapons hidden by pro-Morsi supporters. Speaking...

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January 30, 2014

Constitutional amendment in Turkey to prevent military coups

Turkey’s President Abdullah Gül has approved a legal amendment intended to prevent the army from carrying out military coups d’état. Article 35 of the Turkish Army’s Internal Service Code...

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January 30, 2014

Ashour: Ashton’s meeting with Morsi implied recognition of his legitimacy

EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton’s meeting with deposed president, Mohamed Morsi, was due to take place in secret, chief editor of Middle East News Agency, Abdul-Wahed Ashour, has...

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January 30, 2014

Morsi tells Ashton that he holds Europe and America responsible for bloodshed

Sources in Egypt claim that ousted President Mohamed Morsi told EU Foreign Affairs chief Catherine Ashton that he holds European and American support for the coup which removed him...

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January 30, 2014

Michael Mansfield: Legal redress for violation of right to life in Egypt can be challenged in the African Court on Human and People’s Rights

In the weeks since President Mohamed Morsi was deposed, Egyptian protesters have taken to the streets with increasing frequency. Their demands for a return to electoral legitimacy have been...

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January 30, 2014

Saudi Arabia dangles lucrative arms deal in front of Russia in exchange for dropping Assad

Saudi Arabia has reportedly offered to buy arms worth up to $15 billion from Russia, and provided a raft of economic and political concessions to the Kremlin – all...

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January 30, 2014

Dutch Foreign Minister: If Egypt fails, Arab success in democratization is unlikely

Dutch foreign minister, Frans Timmermans, left Cairo after a two-day visit in which he discussed the situation in the country, bilateral relations, and other regional issues with interim President...

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January 30, 2014

Israel launches campaign to convince EU to rethink settlement boycott

Reuters have reported that Israel has asked the European Union to rethink its plans to impose sanctions on Israeli organisations based in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, a step that...

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