News: AKP spokesman Atalay said about the recent meetings with HDP [Peoples' Democratic Party] regarding the resolution process, "in a sense it is an intention renewal, the commitment continues". (Source: Al Jazeera) Comment: The initiated resolution process between the government and HDP-PKK [Peoples' Democratic Party and Kurdistan Workers' Party] in Turkey was about to freeze due to the killings of 48 people during the demonstrations between 6-8 October which were…

News The Daily Mail posted a news story today, 12th November, 2014, that fills the heart with sadness: "Hundreds of mourners to attend funeral of Welsh Guardsman, 85, following public appeal after church failed to trace any friends or family". The article stated that Mr. Morgan was a former British soldier who served his country many years ago, and listed other examples of former soldiers and war heroes that died…

News: A key aide to the leader of Islamic State (Isis) has been killed in a US strike on a convoy near the Iraqi city of Mosul that destroyed 10 vehicles carrying a number of the group's top militants. Colonel Patrick Ryder, a spokesman at US Central Command, said on Saturday: "I can confirm that coalition aircraft did conduct a series of air strikes yesterday evening in Iraq against what…

News On the 7th November, the Bangkok-based advocacy group Fortify Rights published a briefing that stated that Myanmar authorities were complicit in the trafficking and smuggling of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar's Rakhine state. They described state security forces extracting payments from Rohingya fleeing the persecution of their regime, or from traffickers operating boats offshore in exchange for passage out to sea. There are even reports of Myanmar naval boats escorting…