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L’auteur de l’attentat de Nice le 14 juillet, le Tunisien Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, “a bénéficié de soutiens et de complicités”, et semble avoir projeté son acte il y a “plusieurs mois”, a annoncé ce jeudi à Paris le procureur chargé de l’enquête, François Molins. Lors […]

Même si la tentative de coup d’Etat en Turquie perpétrée la semaine dernière par un groupe de militaires mécontents a subi un échec, un autre coup d’Etat bat son plein dans ce pays, celui que les partisans du président Erdogan mènent contre les opposants d’un […]

CLEVELAND – Donald J. Trump, on the eve of Accepting the Republican nomination for president, Explicitly raised new issues on Wednesday about His commitment to NATO allies Defending automatically If They are attacked This, he Saying Would first look At Their contributions to the alliance. […]

L’ancien chef de la Brigade « Al-Farouk » , Abdul Razzak Tlass, ancien lieutenant de l’armée régulière syrienne qu’il a déserté en 2011, aurait, selon le site syrien SPC, récemment obtenu l’asile politique en France. Une photo diffusée sur Facebook le 11 juillet dernier le […]

The Turkish government’s crackdown after a military coup attempt widened into a sweeping purge on Monday, cutting a swath through the security services and reaching deeply into the government bureaucracy and the political and business classes. The sheer numbers being detained or dismissed were stunning: […]

When the army cut off traffic in Istanbul on Friday night by shutting two bridges in the opening moments of a coup, the municipality ordered ferries to work overtime. City trucks blocked roads near army barracks. Buses and subways operated free of charge, and local […]

Whenever they appear, black swans are always unsettling. As defined by the Lebanese-American author Nassim Nicholas Taleb, black swans are unexpected, hard-to-predict events that don’t fit the understood flow of history. In just the last week, there have been three. In Turkey, the first attempted […]

Le président Recep Tayyip Erdogan a évoqué dimanche soir un possible rétablissement en Turquie de la peine capitale, officiellement abolie en 2004 dans le cadre de la candidature d’adhésion d’Ankara à l’Union européenne, afin de lutter contre le “virus” factieux. “En tant que gouvernement et […]

678 soldiers and ten officers, led by a colonel, were arrested at Ataturk International Airport. Under interrogation, many soldiers stated that they had no idea they were taking part in a coup, rather that they were taking part in a military exercise. Nevertheless, the authoritarian […]