Noam Chomsky

Turkish police have detained at least 18 academics who signed a petition calling for an end to military operations in southeastern Anatolia, while more than 130 academics are facing criminal charges. The moves come just days after President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an slammed the signatories for making "terrorist propaganda."

It is only the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and anti-national academics who are opposing the construction of new dams and hydroelectric power plants (HES), according to President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an.

Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu has slammed hundreds of academics and intellectuals who called on Ankara to end military operations in southeast Turkey, urging them to condemn acts of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) instead.

Academics and intellectuals who publicly called on the Turkish government to end security operations in southeastern Anatolia and return to the table for talks to resolve the Kurdish issue are the "conscience of the country," a co-chair of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) has said.

President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has strongly reacted to a petition signed by more than 1,000 local and international academics calling on the Turkish government to end the security operations being committed in southeastern Anatolia and to return to table for talks to resolve the Kurdish issue, describing the signatories as "ignorant." After an urgent meeting on Jan.

The current polarization in Turkey may have been triggered by the European Union's obstacles in the accession process, leading Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an to choose more authoritarian paths, prominent U.S. activist and linguist Noam Chomsky has told daily Hürriyet in an interview.How do you see Turkey in 2015?

Statehood Day marked in Serbia

BELGRADE -- Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic decorated a large number of domestic and foreign individuals and institutions on the occasion of Serbia's Statehood Day.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic decorated a large number of individuals and institutions from the country and abroad on the occasion of Serbia's Statehood Day on Sunday.

BELGRADE - Documentary 'The Weight of Chains 2' by director, scriptwriter and producer Boris Malagurski won rounds of applause by the audience at the premiere in Novi Sad.

The American left-wing philosopher and activist Noam Chomsky has said that the European Union's reaction to the new Greek government's bid to roll back austerity policies in the debt-hit country was ?extremely savage,? while warning of a far-right backlash.

?The reaction to SYRIZA was extremely savage,? Chomsky said in an interview with Democracy Now! on Tuesday.