Turkey bending under pressure: Gabriel
Germany’s foreign minister Sigmar Gabriel welcomed a Turkish court’s decision to free a human-rights activist while vowing to continue seeking…
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EU hopes for renewed Uzbek ties
The EU and Uzbekistan are to hold the highest-level political meeting in Brussels since the death of Uzbek dictator Islam…
Chechnya asked to explain 27 deaths
Reports in the Novaya Gazeta newspaper that the security forces in Chechnya killed 27 people on January 26 must be…
Erdogan: we don’t need EU
Turkey will find it “comforting” if the EU rejects its membership bid, according to its combative president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan….
Amnesty rages at ‘grotesque’ arrest
Amnesty International says the Turkish police, in a “grotesque abuse of power”, have detained its country director and other campaigners….
Amnesty chief held for ‘Gulen’ links
The chairman of Amnesty International Turkey has been detained in the western city of Izmir along with 22 other lawyers…
Uzbek migrants can’t escape state spies
The 30 million Uzbeks labour under the state’s heavy hand. Uzbekistan is conducting unlawful surveillance of its citizens abroad and…