Hardline

Brexit hardliner Boris Johnson, whose family roots reach back to an Ottoman interior minister Ali Kemal, won the contest to lead Britain's governing Conservative Party on July 23 and will become the country's next prime minister, tasked with fulfilling his promise to lead the U.K. out of the European Union.

Centrist Potami party on Saturday urged the SYRIZA government to "to stop playing with fire" by clashing with practically every European partner instead of dealing with the country's legitimate problems.

Hüseyin Üzmez, a sexual abuse convict and former columnist of the hardline Islamist daily Yeni Akit, has died in an Ankara hospital