Tag: Turkey

• Monday, January 29th 2024 - 10:40 UTC

  Turkey to receive 40 US F-16s for accepting Sweden’s membership of NATO

  

  Turkey will receive 40 new F-16s and upgrades to 79 of the jets in its existing fleet, the United States State Department said in a press release. The US$ 23 billion operation follows on Turkey's ratification of NATO membership for Sweden.

• Monday, July 10th 2023 - 22:03 UTC

  Sweden in NATO, if Turkey joins the European Union, Erdogan insists

  

  Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday added European Union membership o the list of demands he wants fulfilled in exchange for finally backing Stockholm's accession to NATO.

• Thursday, June 8th 2023 - 15:59 UTC

  Sweden closer to NATO as it yields to Turkish president Erdogan demands

  

  Sweden's Supreme Court on Wednesday approved the extradition of a supporter of the Kurdish Workers Party, (PKK) to Turkey. The decision clears the way for the government in Stockholm to meet Turkey's demand that it hand over several individuals it considers “terrorists” as a prerequisite for approval of Sweden's request to become a member of NATO military alliance.

• Thursday, May 18th 2023 - 14:03 UTC

  Turkey brokers a two month extension of the Black Sea grain shipments benefitting Ukraine exports

  

  Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Wednesday that a two-month extension of the UN-back grain deal, allowing shipments of grain from Ukraine to the global market, had been reached.

• Monday, May 1st 2023 - 09:55 UTC

  Turkish secret service guns down ISIS leader

  

  Türkiye's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Sunday announced that his country's secret service -known as MIT- had “neutralized” ISIS leader Abu al Husein al Qurashi, in an operation in Syria.

• Saturday, February 18th 2023 - 10:16 UTC

  Survival: Trio rescued after 13 days trapped in rubble

  

  Three people, including a child, were found alive under rubble Saturday in Turkey's southern Hatay province, 13 days after the earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria on Feb. 6, local media reported.

• Thursday, February 16th 2023 - 12:18 UTC

  Multicultural Falklands organizing 'multicultural takeaway' in support of humanitarian needs in Turkey and Syria

  

  Generous Falkland Islands are again organizing to aid human tragedy, this time to collect funds to help with the recovery of the tragic earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria, with an estimated loss of plus 41,000 lives and millions of dollars as hundreds of thousands were left homeless with the collapse of hundreds of buildings.

• Wednesday, February 8th 2023 - 08:24 UTC

  Death toll crosses 8,100 threshold in Turkish/Syrian quakes

  

  The latest reports from Türkiye and Syria two days after the series of earthquakes and aftershocks that hit the region mention at least 8,100 people confirmed dead as hopes of finding any new survivors under the rubble of collapsed buildings are turning slimmer by the minute.

• Tuesday, February 7th 2023 - 10:54 UTC

  Earthquake death toll reaches 4,300, more victims feared under the rubble

  

  The number of casualties from the series of earthquakes hitting Türkiye and Syria early Monday has been updated to 4,300, it was reported. Due to the time the quake occurred (4.17 local time), most people were sleeping in their homes and many were unable to escape. Rescuers are searching for survivors in the rubble.

• Monday, February 6th 2023 - 09:17 UTC

  Earthquake rocks Türkiye and Syria killing around 1,200 people

  

  Over 1,200 people died in Türkiye and Syria as hundreds of buildings collapsed in the areas hit by an earthquake of 7.8-degree magnitude with its epicenter in the border city of Gaziantep. Rescue teams were searching for people trapped under the rubble. Humanitarian aid was reported on its way from various parts of the world. There were a total of 22 aftershocks, some of them strong.