Bloomberg Turkey suspended 9,000 police officers, including more than a dozen tasked with protecting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his family, extending a crackdown on suspected followers of a U.S.-based cleric who the government blames for orchestrating last year’s attempted coup. The officers were suspended for ties to the “terrorist network of Fethullah Gulen and for posing a threat ...

  Bloomberg Russia and the U.S. are preparing for a possible first meeting between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump before the two presidents attend July’s Group of 20 summit in Germany, according to Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov. “There are preparations,” Ryabkov said on Thursday in a text message. “The issue of whether the schedules of both leaders can ...

  Bloomberg The Defense Department’s inspector general is investigating whether former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn “failed to obtain required approval” for a speech to a Russia-backed media network, according to an April 11 letter released on Thursday by the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee. The Democrat, Elijah Cummings of Maryland, also released an October 2014 letter from ...