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
A city in China’s remote western Xinjiang region has temporarily banned men with beards and women with Muslim headscarves from taking public buses. The extreme security measure to be implemented for the duration of a sports competition slated to kick off in northern Xinjiang’s Karamay city on August 8 is the latest example of the kind of religious intolerance that some say has