ANKARA: Turkish police on Sunday fired tear gas to break up a women’s rights march in Ankara with some 15 protesters reportedly detained.
The protesters, mainly from the Ankara Women’s Platform, a NGO promoting women’s rights, had gathered in the Turkish capital for the march called ahead of International Women’s Day on March 8.
“We are getting stronger in solidarity,” read one banner as riot police moved in and fired tear gas after the group ignored calls to disperse, AFP photographers at the scene said.
Fifteen women were detained by police, the private Dogan News Agency reported.
In Istanbul Sunday, a group of around 1,500 women rallied in the Bakirkoy district on the European side of the city, an AFP journalist reported.
The group was protesting Turkey’s military operation in Syria targeting Syrian Kurdish militia, considered a terror group by Ankara.
“There is a war on our border. We cannot remain indifferent,” one woman protester Meltem said.
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Turkey riot police break up women’s rights march
Turkey riot police break up women’s rights march
Iran security chief meets Oman ruler after US talks
MUSCAT: Iran’s top security official met Oman’s ruler in Muscat on Tuesday, days after a new round of talks there between officials from Washington and Tehran.
Ali Larijani, who heads the Supreme National Security Council, and Sultan Haitham bin Tariq “discussed the latest developments in the Iranian-American negotiations,” the official Oman News Agency said.
Larijani was also due to meet Omani Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi, who mediated Friday’s indirect talks between US and Iranian officials.
Larijani and Sultan Haitham also explored “ways to reach a balanced and just agreement between the two sides, and emphasized the importance of returning to the table of dialogue and negotiation.”
Larijani will head to Qatar after Oman, according to Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman Esmail Baqaei.
The trip comes after Iran and the United States resumed dialogue in Oman on Friday for the first time since the 12-day Iran-Israel war last June, which was briefly joined by the US military.
Ali Larijani, who heads the Supreme National Security Council, and Sultan Haitham bin Tariq “discussed the latest developments in the Iranian-American negotiations,” the official Oman News Agency said.
Larijani was also due to meet Omani Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi, who mediated Friday’s indirect talks between US and Iranian officials.
Larijani and Sultan Haitham also explored “ways to reach a balanced and just agreement between the two sides, and emphasized the importance of returning to the table of dialogue and negotiation.”
Larijani will head to Qatar after Oman, according to Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman Esmail Baqaei.
The trip comes after Iran and the United States resumed dialogue in Oman on Friday for the first time since the 12-day Iran-Israel war last June, which was briefly joined by the US military.
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