Tag: Turkey

• 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.

• Monday, November 14th 2022 - 09:47 UTC

  Bomb goes off in Istanbul, killing at least 6 people

  

  At least six people were killed Sunday in a terrorist attack in a key district of Istanbul, while 81 others have been reported injured.

• Saturday, November 5th 2022 - 10:08 UTC

  “Ukraine's grain corridor” in the Black Sea sponsored by UN and Turkey resumes operations

  

  Russia has finally agreed to resume the agreement allowing safe passage of Ukrainian crop exports, abruptly reversing course after Turkey and the United Nations pushed ahead with the shipments over Moscow’s objections.

• Monday, September 12th 2022 - 10:14 UTC

  Turkey rejects scrapping Brazilian air carrier because of undeclared hazardous materials

  

  The decommissioned Brazilian navy air carrier Sao Paulo, originally the Foch, a French Clemenceau-class carrier, built in the late 1950s and commissioned in 1963 is being towed back to Rio do Janeiro, unable to reach Turkey to be scrapped.

• Thursday, August 4th 2022 - 20:56 UTC

  Brazil's decommissioned carrier leaves Rio to be scrapped

  

  Brazil's Navy Thursday bid farewell to the Sao Paulo aircraft carrier, which has been decommissioned and sold for scrap. Türkiye is the structure's final destination.

• Thursday, June 30th 2022 - 09:25 UTC

  Kurdish refugees, victims of Sweden and Finland NATO access process?

  

  After Turkey unblocked the NATO accession process for Sweden and Finland, now fears have arisen that the two Nordic states could have conceded too much to Ankara over deportations.

• Thursday, June 9th 2022 - 09:46 UTC

  Venezuela can become port of entry into LatAm, Maduro tells Erdogan

  

  Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro Wednesday offered Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to turn Venezuela into a port of entry into Latin America.

• Saturday, June 4th 2022 - 09:03 UTC

  No more Turkey – it is now “Türkiye”

  

  The country is known as “Turkey” has conveyed to the United Nations its decision to change its name to “Türkiye.” In other words, the idea is that the local-language version of the country's name is used worldwide, instead of translations.

• Monday, May 16th 2022 - 09:22 UTC

  Turkey conditions Finland and Sweden NATO memberships: “they harbor terrorists”

  

  Finland and Sweden allegedly are determined to become full members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, dropping decades of full or observant neutrality regarding the powerful neighbor Russia and its current leader Vladimir Putin.

• Monday, May 2nd 2022 - 09:23 UTC

  Turkey entices Latin American leaders to get Putin, Zelensky to discuss end to war

  

  Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu insisted over the weekend that the Government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was conducting a series of efforts to organize a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky.