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Turkey, Russia, Iran vow to back Syria’s sovereignty

Delivery of S-400 set for 2019

Deputy PM blames FETO in NATO incidents

Palestinians frequently attacked in W. Bank

Mladic convicted for genocide, war crimes

By Emin Avundukluoglu

ANKARA - Turkey’s national defense minister said on Wednesday that Russia’s first delivery of an air defense system to Turkey is expected in 2019.Turkey and Russia have signed deals for two S-400 air-defense systems, with one of them optional, Nurettin Canikli told parliament’s Planning and Budget Committee.The S-400 is Russia’s most advanced long-range anti-aircraft missile system and can carry three types of missiles capable of destroying targets, including ballistic and cruise missiles.“The first delivery of the S-400 air-defense systems is

planned to be accomplished in 2019,” said Canikli.The system can track and engage up to 300 targets at a time and has an altitude ceiling of 27 kilometers (17 miles). Canikli added that 8,570 FETO-linked personnel have been dismissed from the Turkish Armed Forces since last year’s defeated coup attempt.They include 150 generals, 4,630 army officers, 2,168 sergeants, 1,211 specialized sergeants and 411 civil servants, he said.FETO and its U.S.-based leader Fetullah Gulen orchestrated the defeated coup attempt of July 15, 2016 which left 250 people martyred and...

‘We see these attitudes, these kinds of things mostly as tactics of members of the FETO terror group,’ says Hakan Cavusoglu

By Fatih Hafiz Mehmet

ANKARA - The Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO) was involved in a recent NATO drill that led Turkey to withdraw its troops, Deputy Prime Minister Hakan Cavusoglu said Wednesday.Turkey withdrew 40 soldiers from last week’s computer-based exercise in Norway after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Turkish Republic founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk were depicted

as “enemies”.Speaking at Anadolu Agency’s Editors’ Desk, Cavusoglu said FETO, the group behind last year’s defeated coup in Turkey, played a role in the incident.“We see these attitudes, these kinds of things mostly as tactics of members of FETO,” he said, referring to Turkish military officers with FETO ties who had been previously posted to NATO. FETO, which staged the July 15 coup that resulted in 250 martyrs, used some countries as a “buttress” for their goals, he added.There were “circles that feel raw” about Turkey’s opposition to “the new world plan”, Cavusoglu said.NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg apologized to Turkey and Chief of Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar over the use of Erdogan’s name and Ataturk’s picture on an “enemy chart” during the drills.

By Talha Ozturk

BELGRADE - Former Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic was jailed for life by UN judges on Wednesday after being found guilty of crimes against humanity, including genocide.He was also found to have had “significant responsibility” for the genocide of over 8,000 Muslim men and boys committed at Srebrenica in 1995. Judges for the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) sitting in The Hague unanimously found Mladic guilty of...

By Diyar Guldogan

SOCHI -Turkey, Russia and Iran have reiterated their support for Syria’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.“The heads of state reaffirmed their strong commitment to sovereignty, independence, unity and territorial integrity of the Syrian Arab Republic,” according to a joint statement released following a trilateral meeting between the presidents of the three countries Wednesday.Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin and Iran’s Hassan Rouhani met in Russia’s Black Sea...

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