Turkey closes Syria border after violence flares in both countries
Amman. Jordan/Istanbul, Turkey Reuters Turkey closed its main border crossings into north-west Syria on Tuesday after Turkish troops came under fire from Syrians angered by violence against their compatriots in Turkey, a Syrian opposition source and residents said. In Turkey, police detained 474 people involved in attacks targeting the Syrian community across the country overnight, […]
Turkey: Land disputes, climate change pressure nomads to settle
LIZ COOKMAN, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports that as drought and tensions with local farmers threaten their pastoralist lifestyle, the last of Turkey’s nomadic Yoruks fear they may soon have to settle down…