LONDON (AA) – Although nearly 60 years have passed, the trauma of the 1963 “Bloody Christmas” massacre is still fresh in the minds of Muslim Turkish Cypriots. Starting on December 21, following the Greek Cypriot coup of the Cyprus government, some 1% of the Turkish Cypriot population was killed and 25% displaced by Greek Cypr...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Joe Biden may become the first sitting US president to visit atomic bomb-hit Nagasaki in Japan early next year. Tokyo and Washington are “considering a visit by US President Joe Biden to Nagasaki in May 2023 when he travels to Japan for a Group of Seven summit in Hiroshima,” Kyodo News reported. […]
BERLIN (AA) – A German court has found a 97-year-old woman guilty of complicity in killings of more than 10,000 people at a Nazi camp. Irmgard Furchner, known as the “secretary of evil,” was given a two-year suspended sentence by the court in the northern town of Itzehoe. Furchner was 18 years old when she […]
ANKARA/LONDON (AA) – Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has apologized on behalf of the government for the Netherlands’ past involvement in slavery. “We can recognize slavery in the clearest terms as a crime against humanity,” Rutte said during a press conference in The Hague. He expressed regret that for centuries “the Du...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The city of Richmond, Virginia, the former capital of the slave-holding Confederate states during the American Civil War, removed its last city-owned Confederate monument on Monday. Confederate Gen. A.P. Hill’s statue at the intersection of Laburnum Avenue and Hermitage Road was removed early Monday, according to ...
DAKAR, Senegal (AA) – Even after centuries, traces remain in Africa of the slave trade maintained by Westerners up until the 1800s. While West Africa was used for years as the main slave hub, many countries expanded their colonies and transported slaves to the New World from ports in the eastern and southern parts of […]
WARSAW (AA) – Warsaw is planning an information campaign to show how much damage Nazi Germany inflicted on Poland during WWII as part of its demand for reparations from Berlin, the ruling party head has said. “We are preparing films on this subject, although of course it will take a while. We are preparing a […]
ANKARA (AA) – Greek authorities have turned the Murat Reis Complex, a spiritual center for Muslim Turks living on Rhodes Island, into a music facility. The center comprises a mosque, a dervish lodge, and a cemetery for soldiers. Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Neval Konuk, a lecturer at Istanbul-based Marmara University’s Faculty of Architec...
Sydney, Australia – (AFP): Hundreds of activists have rallied in Australia to decry colonial Britain’s destructive impact on Indigenous peoples, as the country held a public holiday to mark the death of Queen Elizabeth II. Chanting “Abolish the Monarchy”, they staged demonstrations in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra, pro...
BERLIN (AA) – Germany has signed an agreement with Nigeria to return ownership of over 500 looted Benin bronze artifacts. The deal signed by the Foundation of Prussian Cultural Heritage and Nigeria’s National Commission for Museums and Monuments will see almost a third of the artifacts remain in German museums on loan, while the rest […...
