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The other evening, on my TV program on CNNTürk, one of the guests, Diyarbak?r Bar Association head Tahir Elçi said, at one point during the debate, ?The PKK is not a terror organization.? 

The aunt of a drowned Syrian boy whose death has sparked global outrage about the plight of refugees in Europe says she still hopes to bring the rest of her family to Canada.
                   

It was as if the entire world collapsed on me. Was it possible at all to look at that photograph of a little boy?s body washed up on a Bodrum beach without pain in the heart? Moments later, a young soldier was gently carrying in his arms the lifeless body of a little boy. He was three-year-old Aylan Kurdi.

Turkey's charge d'affaires to the embassy in the Egyptian capital Cairo married an Egyptian former beauty queen and actress on Aug. 2.  

A chieftain of the separatist gang has announced that they have unilaterally given up the ceasefire that they had unilaterally declared in 2013. The gang, the chieftain said, would attack military outposts, dams "constructed for military purposes," and the heavy machinery used in the construction of dams, roads and military outposts.

Saudi Arabia has two main threat perceptions: democracy on the one hand, Iran on the other. The Saudi regime swings between the two, according to a high level Turkish official.

Saudi Arabia on May 26 carried out its 88th execution so far this year, surpassing the total for all of 2014 despite activists' concerns that trials are not conducted fairly.

BELGRADE - Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al-Thani, Prime Minister of Qatar, invited his Serbian counterpart Aleksandar Vucic to visit Doha and contribute to further strengthening of ties between the two countries.

The official invitation was presented to Vucic on Thursday by Qatar's Ambassador to Serbia Sheikh Mubarak bin Fahad Jassim Mohammed Al-Thani.

Saudi Arabia's King Salman on April 29 named his powerful interior minister as heir in a major shakeup that also saw the world's longest-serving foreign minister replaced.  

DOHA - Serbia and Qatar have a strong interest in improving political relations and strengthening economic ties, Serbia's First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic said at the end of a visit to Doha on Monday.

Dacic spoke with Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani and Qatari Foreign Minister Khalid bin Mohammad Al Attiyah.