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President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who is in the USA to meet high-level executives on Nuclear Security Summit; met with American Jewish associations and academics, Erdogan who underlined the importance of Turkey's alliance and cooperation with the USA said, "Our relations with the USA today like in the past are of indispensable quality.

A 28-year long judicial fight of the secular activists in Bangladesh, calling for the removal of Islam as the state religion, has suddenly set off heated debate among the Islamists and secularists of the society. The long-standing legal battle finally came to an end on March 28 (2016) when the top court of Bangladesh rejected a petition demanding the removal of a constitutional provision recognizing Islam as the official religion.

Representatives from 56 nations and organizations gathered in Washington on Thursday for the two-day Nuclear Security Summit. The conference, aimed at “strengthening the global nuclear security architecture,” is President Barack Obama’s fourth and final one.