In national elections, Turkey’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) headed by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan suffered its first electoral defeat since coming to power in 2002, Agence France-Presse reported Sunday. The result has scuttled Erdogan’s plan to push through the constitutional changes he yearns for to create a presidential system...

Iran prevented a group of European Union lawmakers from holding a press conference with the foreign media in Tehran, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported yesterday. AFP reported that an Iranian security official threatened “action against reporters and photographers if they tried to film the incident.” Having called a press conference at their...

The European Union issued a “cautionary” statement to Iran, saying the Islamic Republic must account for all of its past nuclear work if there is to be a comprehensive nuclear deal, the Associated Press (AP) reported today. It was obtained by The Associated Press ahead of its delivery at a...

Israel’s foreign ministry blasted the Swiss government for funding an exhibit by the anti-IDF group Breaking the Silence, Agence France-Presse reported Wednesday. Israel’s newly appointed deputy foreign minister Tzipi Hotovely is determined to prevent the exhibit from taking place, ordering both the ministry and Israel’s embassy in Bern to examine ways of...

A Swedish parliamentary committee claimed that the country’s recognition of Palestine last year violated the nation’s constitution, The Times of Israel reported Wednesday. On Tuesday, the Riksdag’s Committee on the Constitution published its annual paper [Swedish], which lists several instances in which the center-left government of Prime Minister Stefan Loefven...

Israeli academics are seeing signs of an undeclared boycott against them, Ha’aretz reported today. These signs include turning down invitations to attend conferences held in Israel, ignoring requests to write recommendation letters for Israeli scholars seeking promotions, and rejecting submissions from Israeli scholars in peer-reviewed journals. Hostility toward Israel is...