Turkey

Turkey arrests over 200 suspects in a $3 billion investment scam as local media outlets are aggressively framing the international fraud ring as a covert "Mossad network."

Pakistan has said that there were no discussions about a military reaction from Islamabad under the Mecca agreement in response to the Houthis' attacks on Saudi Arabia.

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Turkish prosecutors say a global investment fraud network operating from Turkey was allegedly managed by Israeli citizens, and led to the arrest of nine Israelis.

Earlier this month, the US Treasury Department imposed sanctions on a small Turkish investment bank and two subsidiaries.

Instead of investing in infrastructure, rebuilding the country, or improving the welfare of civilians who suffered through 15 years of war, the extremist regime is focusing on an arms buildup.

“Inside a copper box, we found an extremely thin gold sheet, only 0.1 millimeters thick, most likely carrying a passage from the Bible,” said Michele Ruzgar Massa of Bilkent University.

The concept behind the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement seems more about starting a process than enabling these countries to rapidly deploy to any of their partners' homelands.

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said that freedom of passage should be allowed in the Strait of Hormuz, and the pre-war status quo should be reinstated.

Syria and Turkey have signed 40 agreements and memoranda of understanding, creating links between 22 Syrian ministries and agencies and their Turkish counterparts, SANA reported.