France’s support for Morocco’s occupation of Western Sahara By Ali Rıza Taşdelen Tension between Algeria and France is escalating. The arrest of an Algerian consular official by the French security forces set off the latest flare-up. In response, Algeria expelled 12 French embassy employees on April 13. France retaliated by expelling twelve Algerian diplomatic and consular staff and recalled its ...
By Ali Rıza Taşdelen Between May 1-5, 2024, we spent four days at the Polisario Front’s Boujdour Refugee Camp on Algerian soil, near the Western Sahara border. As representatives of Aydınlık newspaper and Ulusal Kanal from Türkiye, we attended the meeting organized by the Sahrawi Journalists Union with the theme “A Media Perspective on the Western Sahara Issue and Developments”. ...
May 10, marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Saguia el Hamra and Rio de Oro (Polisario), the legitimate representative of the Saharawi people in their struggle for self-determination. Likewise, this coming May 20 people will commemorate half a century since the beginning of the armed struggle against the Spanish colonial power. ...