On February 9, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan suggested that Turkey would begin developing nuclear weapons should Iran obtain them. During a televised interview with CNN Turk, Fidan warned that Iranian nuclearization would upset the “balance of power” in the Middle East and likely initiate a regional nuclear arms race, …
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Democracy Digest: Brussels Takes Hungary, Slovakia to Task
The EU’s ‘awkward squad’ – namely, Hungary and Slovakia – were both targets for criticism this week by European institutions angry at how those two governments are subverting the rule of law and stymieing anticorruption efforts. On Thursday, a senior legal adviser to Europe’s top court, the ECJ, said that …
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Sources at humanitarian organizations and eyewitnesses told Agence France-Presse (AFP) that most families of foreign members of the Islamic State group have left al-Hol camp in the eastern countryside of al-Hasakah (northeastern Syria), after the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) withdrew from it in late January and it was taken over …
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