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War-weary Turkish Kurds long for end to conflict

As they digest the resounding victory of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's party in Turkey's general election, residents of the mainly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir say they want only one thing from the new government: peace. A tentative peace had prevailed for two years, after peace talks...

Erdogan says world must respect Turkish election result

A jubilant President Tayyip Erdogan on Monday cast the return of Turkey to single-party rule as a vote for stability that the world must respect, but opponents fear it heralds growing authoritarianism and deeper polarisation. The AK Party, whose roots are in political Islam,...

Three Israelis hurt in stabbing near Tel Aviv: police

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: A Palestinian stabbed and wounded three Israelis near Tel Aviv Monday before being arrested, police said, the latest in a series of such attacks. The 19-year-old, from Hebron in the occupied West Bank, stabbed two people on the pavement and a third in a clothes store, a...