Shorouk Express While a 1998 U.N. Security Council resolution does proscribe the sale or supply of weapons to Kosovo, an agreement from the following year, U.N. Security Council Resolution 1244, states that this prohibition “shall not apply to arms and related matériel for the use of the international civil and security presences.” Belgrade and Ankara…
Shorouk Express On 12 May 2025, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) announced plans to dissolve. Three weeks later, Turkish social media lit up with images of opposition party members lined up before police officers – an echo, for many, of 2009, when Kurdish politicians were similarly paraded following mass arrests. The parallel was both deliberate and…
Shorouk Express On The Ground newsletter: Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly international news dispatch At least one person died and more than a dozen buildings collapsed after a 6.1 magnitude earthquake struck northwestern Turkey’s Balikesir province. At least 29 people suffered…
Shorouk Express BAKU, Azerbaijan, August 11. Search and rescue operations have been completed under the rubble of a building that collapsed during an earthquake in the Sindirgi district of Balikesir province in Türkiye. The life of one of the four people pulled from the rubble could not be saved, Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said,…
Shorouk Express Russia says ceasefire not enough to end war Russia has told the UN Security Council that a ceasefire alone is not enough to end Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine. “To achieve a sustainable and lasting settlement of the Ukrainian crisis, we need to address its root causes,” Russia’s UN envoy Vassily Nebenzia told…
Shorouk Express While Putin never responded publicly to the ceasefire demand, a social media post from United States President Donald Trump, who has been pushing the two parties to agree a deal to end the war, said the Russian leader “doesn’t want” a ceasefire. He nonetheless demanded Zelenskyy accept the offer, and the Ukrainian leader…
Shorouk Express The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) announced Monday that it will disband and disarm, ending 40 years of conflict with Turkey. The announcement follows a February call by PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan, who has been imprisoned on an island near Istanbul since 1999, for the group to hold a congress and formally dissolve. According…
Shorouk Express The opposition protests have spread despite the government banning gatherings for four days. Much of the opposition activity has centered around universities, and many of those connected to the demonstrations are now finding their X accounts suspended, observers report. The majority of the suspended accounts were “university-associated activist accounts, basically sharing protest information,…
Shorouk Express “Tonight, the calendar New Year begins, but for us it starts when all the demands of the student protest are met,” the students of the University of the Serbian city Novi Sad announced on New Year’s Eve in front of thousands of other citizens, as Aleksandar Latas reported for the Serbian daily Danas….
