Turkey angry at US comments on protests

Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu tells US Secretary of State John Kerry that Turkey is 'not a second-class democracy'.

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has contacted US Secretary of State John Kerry to object to recent statements from Washington expressing concern over Turkey's handling of mass anti-government protests, a foreign ministry diplomat said.

"Turkey is not a second-class democracy," Davutoglu told Kerry in a phone call late on Tuesday, the diplomat said on condition of anonymity on Wednesday.

Kerry on Monday said he was concerned by reports of excessive use of force by Turkish police to quell the biggest protests since Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's decade in power, urging all sides to "avoid any provocations or violence."

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2013/06/201365151623201431.html

Q+A: Pakistan's nuclear weapons, safe or not? An assault on a naval base in ...

Q+A: Pakistan's nuclear weapons, safe or not?

An assault on a naval base in Karachi is the latest militant attack on military installations inPakistan, raising fears about the safety of the country's nuclear arsenal.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/23/us-pakistan-attack-nukes-idUSTRE74M07J20110523