Foundation for political, economic, and social research. Good morning everyone. Distinguished guests, friends, and colleagues, welcome. Im the executive director of the Seta Foundation at washington, d. C. We would like to welcome you all on behalf of our institution. Thank you for joining us today important conference of the july 15 coup attempt. This conference will debate a subject that continues to define turkeys domestic and Foreign Policy in significant ways. The last years coup attempt exposed the extent to which the followers went to grab power at the expense of popular will. The attempt made it clear for turkey that this organization as no longer a moment with networks in the state democracy but now apply terror as a means to achieve its goals by attacking its own people. Turkey continues to fight. Gainst this unique challenge today it will be fortunate and a unique opportunity to hear from the general guler among us in the audience the commander of the Gendarmerie Forces in t
For a fourth term. Reporter i will have the all the sport. Golf first major of the year underway. The defending champion has picked up where he left off. We will have all the action from augusta two boats carrying mainly pakistani migrants have arrived in turkey from the agreeing island of lesbos. It is all part of the deal with the e. U. To stem the number of refugees reaching europe. While the first bachelor of 202 refugees were sent to dikili on monday from lesbos and another island. Hundreds of refugees right across the greek islands broke out of camps into Holding Centers in protests against the deportations. Under the terms of the e. U. Deal all refugees and migrants who enter greece through irregular routes after march 20 face being sent back to turkey. Were live in dikili as the rev jeels arrive. First we cross to refugees arrive. First we cross to lesbos. There are still new arrivals coming in. Reporter yes. Today 124 people were deported to turkey like you mentioned the major
And a new law for turkey giving the government sweeping new powers over social media platforms well look into the motives. With the help of bbc turkish, we will look at the motivation behind that. Welcome. Now this hasnt happened before. Four of the most powerful people in technology are giving evidence to the us congress. They are jeff bezos of amazon, tim cook of apple, Mark Zuckerberg of facebook and Sundar Pichai of google. And the question at the heart of all this is whether these companies are simply too big. Theres no dispute that they are big. Together these four companies represent 5 trillion within the us economy. The New York Times describes the hearing as a. The chairman of the committee doesnt see it that way. Simply put, they have too much power. This power staves off new forms of competition, creativity, and innovation. How these tech bosses stand up to scrutiny could be a defining moment in theirfuture relationship with government. They have never all been quizzed toget
Good evening. Im Chris Matthews in washington. On the eve of two american political conventions, dual explosions on the world stage tonight. A military coup under way as i speak in turkey. We will be following that. That follows the killing of 84 people in last nights terrorist attack in france. Two nato countries, two u. S. Allies, both under assault. All this on the day that Presumptive Republican president ial nominee donald trump confirms his selection of Vice President ial running mate, indiana governor mike pence. What will this International Turmoil do to our president ial election here in this country . What choice would encourage the American People to make and who,
trump or clinton, will the voters choose as our leader afterwards . We are watching people in turkey pouring into the streets after this military coup or in the midst of it, i should say. Reports of soldiers opening fire on citizens. Lets get the latest from nbc news producer Aggelos Petropoulos on the ground in is
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