Turkey, police storms the headquarters of two TV channels critical of Erdogan
A pochi giorni dalle elezioni legislative, due tv critiche nei confronti del presidente Erdoğan sono state assaltate e oscurate dalle forze dell’ordine.
Ferruccio de Bortoli. The war of the skies is never the solution
The region that includes Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and part of Turkey, where Kurds claim autonomy or even independence in the name of a greater Kurdistan, has been the focus of international attention for decades. The journalist Ferruccio de Bortoli shines a light on the issue ahead of the Turkish parliamentary elections on the 1st of
Israel, an Arabic song tops the charts
Since last summer, the streets and trendy bars of Tel Aviv were often filled with the hypnotic melody of an unexpected song: three female voices singing “Habib Galbi” (“Love of my heart”) in Yemeni dialect of Arabic with a heavy darbuka beat and digidub behind them. The band is called A-WA (pronounced “Ay Wah”, meaning “yes” in
The Persian Gulf will become a ghost town by the end of the century
Alla fine del secolo le temperature dell’area del Golfo Persico potrebbero essere insopportabili per gli esseri umani.
Why Turkey fears the Kurds more than the Islamic State
Turkish general elections have been held on 7 June, but since then no single political party, or bloc of allied parties, managed to create a government. Therefore, the President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan called on new elections on 1 November, in order to solve the political stalemate. Who knows if he ever imagined that such stalemate
Ankara, terrorist attack at pro-Kurdish peace rally: 97 people killed
È drammatico il bilancio dell’attentato subito il 10 ottobre, a tre settimane dalle elezioni, da migliaia di militanti pacifisti curdi nel centro della capitale turca.
4 Palestinians, 4 Israelis dead. 8 reasons why West Bank violence is out of control
September ended with the raising of the Palestinian flag at the United Nations, yet October has seen an escalation of violence in the West Bank, which forms the bulk of Palestinian territories. Clashes between Palestinians and the Israeli military have left two Palestinian teenagers dead and almost 500 Palestinians injured. In separate incidents another two
Love him or hate him. 5 moments that made Banksy a star
Banksy, thought to have been born in Bristol, England in the 1970s, has remained faceless and nameless throughout his career in spite of more or less convincing revelations of his identity. In a rare interview he gave to The Guardian in 2003 he revealed that he began doing graffiti in his early teens as a
What happened in Mina, in the stampede at the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca
Hundreds of people have died in a stampede on Thursday 24 September, during the Islamic pilgrimage, the Hajj, to the holy city of Mecca. The incident took place in the morning, around 9 (local time), in Mina, a small town five kilometres from Mecca, Saud Arabia. 717 people died and at least 863 were
Education under fire in the Middle East and North Africa: 13 million children affected
13 million children are out of school in the Middle East and North Africa because of conflicts in the region. This and other alarming data is highlighted by UNICEF in its report Education Under Fire, which looks at the state of education in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Palestine, Sudan, Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey.