Eurasia

MOSCOW, June 6 (Reuters) – Russian authorities for the first time blocked nationalists from using a popular Internet blog to organise anti-migrant demonstrations, one of the leaders of a nationalist group told Reuters on Wednesday.

BEIJING, June 7 (Reuters) – Hundreds of students clashed with police and burnt cars in central China after street inspectors beat up a female student, a police officer and a witness said on Thursday, the latest in a series of public disturbances.

Babacan: Turkey must choose EU or Third World Turkey will be relegated to the status of “a Third World country” unless it applies EU standards of democracy and the rule of law, the country’s chief EU negotiator State Minister Ali Babacan said on Tuesday.

ANKARA (Reuters) — Turkey denied a report on Wednesday it had launched a major incursion into northern Iraq to crush Kurdish rebels, but a military source said troops had conducted a limited raid across the mountainous border.

The EU supports Turkey’s struggle against terrorism, but would discourage the country from launching an incursion into northern Iraq, diplomats said on Monday (June 4th) as a high-level meeting got under way in Ankara.

Former world chess champion and Russian opposition leader Garry Kasparov spoke today to a group of journalists at the Democracy and Security Conference in Prague. Kasparov is the leader of the opposition umbrella group Other Russia.

ISTANBUL — Turkish women are on the street protesting as never before as the fight to preserve Turkey’s secular status gives them a louder political voice that could translate into parliamentary seats in this summer’s elections.

TUNCELI, Turkey (Reuters) — At least eight Turkish paramilitary police were killed when Kurdish rebels attacked their headquarters in eastern Turkey on Monday, security sources said, in the worst attack of its kind in a year.

Turkish Military has threatened to conduct cross-border operation into northern Iraq, against both the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and Iraqi Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani.

ANKARA, Turkey — The Turkish Parliament on Saturday (June 2nd) approved an amendment that would shorten the deadline for organising a referendum on constitutional reforms from 120 to 45 days.