Massive crackdown continues in Turkey after failed coup

Here is a round-up of global news developments:

• Leader of Lebanon’s resistance movement Hezbollah has strongly criticized Saudi Arabia for its decision to normalize ties with Israel. Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said the act will benefit the Zionists. Nasrallah said the move will pave the way for other Arab nations to make similar decisions.
• The massive crackdown on suspected supporters of the recent abortive coup continues in Turkey. 60000 civil servants have been dismissed from different sectors. 130 media organizations have been shut down while one-hundred journalists have been detained this week alone. Three top tycoons of Turkey are among the detainees.
• A row between Ankara and Washington over the mid-July failed coup in Turkey intensifies. President Rejeb Tayyip Erdogan has accused a top US general of siding with the country’s coup plotters. The high-ranking US army general, however, has dismissed the Turkish government’s accusation.
• Yemeni military sources say at least four Saudi soldiers have lost their lives in separate attacks in border regions inside the kingdom. The Yemeni army says the attacks by its forces hit positions in Asir and Jizan regions in the Saudi territory.
• The number of civilians killed in airstrikes by the so-called US-led coalition in northern Syria has risen to 28. London-based monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, has said seven children are among the dead. The air raids by the US-led coalition targeted the Daesh-held village of Ghandurah in Aleppo province on Thursday.
• In an exclusive interview with Press TV, the Iraqi defense minister praises Iran’s role in fighting Daesh terrorists. Khaled al-Oubeidi says Tehran will help Baghdad liberate the Daesh-held city of Mosul. Al-Oubeidi added that Iranian advisors are present in the country with the consent of the Iraqi government.
• There is no end in sight to eurozone economy’s troubles as official figures show a point-three percent slowdown in growth in the second quarter of 2016. The analysis says the growth in the bloc halved in the April-to-June period. Youth unemployment also continues to run at very high levels.
• Hundreds of Muslims and Christians in the northern French region of Normandy have denounced the beheading of a French priest this week by two men linked to Daesh terrorists. They joined Friday prayers at a mosque and expressed their solidarity with the slain priest.

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