Araz News: Turkish Defense Minister İsmet Yılmaz of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) was elected the country’s new parliamentary speaker in the fourth round and with the covert support of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) on July 1 in a...
Araz News: A judiciary official of the Iranian city of Shiraz, Fars province said since the beginning of the Islamic month of Ramadan (which started June 18), some 500 people have been arrested around the city for breaking their fasting...
Araz News: In the 2015-2016 education year, Kurdish and Kurdish literature courses will be available in Iranian Universities. According to the statement of the president of The State of Iran Kurdistan University, this university is going to register students in...
Araz News: At least 116 people were killed on June 30 when an Indonesian air force transport plane crashed into a major city shortly after take-off and exploded in a fireball, officials said. Buildings were left in ruins and cars...
Araz News: Iranian Minister of Communications and Information Technology Mahmoud Vaezi rejected rumors about filtering Telegram mobile app in the country. “Unfortunately there are some rumors in social networks about restriction or filtration of Telegram by the ministry of telecommunications. These...
Araz News: A member of Iran’s Guardian Council says President Hassan Rouhani has sent Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei a letter in which he discusses the issue of a disputed law called “enjoying good and forbidding wrong.” Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi...
Araz News: The protest at the Baghramyan Avenue in Yerevan will continue until “all three demands of the protesters” are met, Maxim Sargsyan, on of the leaders of the activists, told reporters June 30, according to RIA Novosti. “We will stay...
Araz News: The financial crisis in neighboring Greece is surely going to affect Turkey, the country’s European Union Minister Volkan Bozkir said on Tuesday. Bozkir told Anadolu Agency that Turkey is closely watching developments in Athens, adding that Turkey desires...
Araz News: Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has announced that a National Security Council (MGK) meeting will today discuss whether the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) should carry out a cross-border operation into northern Syria following the recent clashes along the Turkish...
Araz News: A petition has been launched on www.change.org by a boy named Mehmet Efe as a call upon China and the international community to stop what it calls China’s “apartheid-style” rule in East Turkestan, officially known as the Xinjiang...
Araz News: Iran has amputated the fingers of the hand of two convicted thieves in a prison in northeastern city of Mashhad. The punishment was carried out on June 28, Iran ’s Khorasan newspaper reported. One of the convicts whose...
Araz News: The OSCE Minsk Group is working on organizing a meeting between Azerbaijani and Armenian presidents. James Warlick, Minsk Group’s U.S. co-chair, has said mediating a new meeting between Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan is the...
Araz News: The closing ceremony of the first European Games was held in Baku on June 28. The ceremony was held at the Baku Olympic Stadium. The closing ceremony was attended by the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, and Azerbaijan’s First...
Araz News: An Iranian official said threats from Saudi Arabia are finding new ways of expression and Iran has to prepare new methods to fightback. Saudi Arabia’s foot print has been found in Iran’s domestic conflicts, Brigadier General Qolamreza Jalali, commander...
Araz News: So far some 400 fighters which have been killed by Syrian opposition groups including Islamic State (IS) insurgents have been buried in Iran, the country’s official IRNA news agency reported. On June 25, five fighters from Fatemiyoun military...
