Eighty-three PKK terrorists have been killed and a large number of weapons and ammunition seized as part of Turkey’s cross-border anti-terror operations Claw-Tiger and Claw-Eagle, Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said Sunday.

The journalists who resigned from Index over threats to editorial independence are talking about crowd-funding an ‘Index 2.0’, but the record of successfully setting up such ventures is not encouraging.

The US Secretary of State will arrive in Central Europe on Tuesday for a tour of countries already onside with the White House push to counter Chinese influence in the region.