Salman Rushdie at the Vanity Fair party for the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival 01 May 2012 (Source: Wikipedia Commons) By Gary Raynaldo – DIPLOMATIC TIMES U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Iranian state institutions have “incited violence” against Salman Rushdie for generations, while
Women with headscarfs (credit: wikipedia commons David Stanley from Nanaimo, Canada – Iraqi Women) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Austria’s Constitutional Court struck down a law banning headscarfs in elementary schools, ruling it is unconstitutional. The law had prohibited girls from wearing “ideological or
Nice, capital of the Alpes-Maritimes department on the French Riviera, where an alleged terrorist attack took place inside a church in the city centre on 29 October, 2020. (Wikipedia Commons) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – The UN Secretary-General on
(credit: Wikipedia) Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, President of Turkey DIPLOMATIC TIMES STAFF France has recalled its ambassador to Turkey for consultations after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan insulted his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron suggesting he needs a “mental check”. President Erdoğan on Monday called on Turks to