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The Economist
April 26, 2018
IF SIZE matters, which it does for Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, then the $12.5bn building site on Istanbul's northern fringe matters a lot. ... The glut of housing expected to spring up near the new airport, along the road connecting it to the Asian side of the city and along the planned route of theÃâà...
Stockholm Center for Freedom
April 26, 2018
Northern Diyarbakır, with its mountainous and woodland terrain, serves as one of the main bastions inside Turkey for the PKK, who demand self-rule and greater rights for Kurds. On hundreds of occasions, Turkey has enforced, at times for months, round-the-clock curfews in scores of Kurdish cities duringÃâà...
Hurriyet Daily News
April 26, 2018
Turkey has established a tent city in Syria's Afrin district for Syrians who fled from the Eastern Qalamoun region near the capital Damascus, Turkish General Staff announced on April 25. The tent city was set up by the Turkish Prime Ministry's Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD),Ãâà...
Al-Monitor
April 25, 2018
ALEPPO, Syria — The city of Afrin, which is part of the larger Afrin district in northern Aleppo province, is getting an interim governing council to help rebuild services now that Turkey has wrested control of the area from Kurdish groups that Ankara considers terrorists. The National Coalition for SyrianÃâà...
Kansas City Star
April 25, 2018
A Turkish court on Wednesday convicted journalists and other senior staff members from the opposition Cumhuriyet newspaper on terror charges, in a case that has exacerbated concerns over press freedom. Turkey's official Anadolu news agency said that 14 employees were found guilty of "aiding a terrorÃâà...
CNN
April 20, 2018
But Sally insists she thought nothing was amiss before she reached the Turkish border town of Sanliurfa. It was there that Elhassani refused to let her leave the hotel room, saying the city was "too dangerous." "Once we got to Sanliurfa everything changed," she says. "I was like a prisoner in the room.".
Daily Sabah
April 20, 2018
The ancient city of Aphrodisias, one of the most well protected ancient cities in Anatolia, is expecting a record number of visitors this year after being registered in UNESCO's World Heritage List. Located in Aydın's Karasu district, Aphrodisias peaked in the Roman period, although it dates back 7,000 years.
Irish Times
April 20, 2018
During the reign of Isis in northwestern Iraq, the terror group branded Yazidis “infidels”, killed the men and enslaved their women and children. Cockburn says the “names of Yazidi villages are being changed”, and says “many of the Sunni Arab fighters...who are under the command of the Turkish militaryÃâà...
Anadolu Agency
April 20, 2018
By Kerem Kocalar. GAZIANTEP, Turkey. Anadolu Agency's editors for foreign languages and international news paid a visit late Thursday to Turkey's southeastern province of Gaziantep close to the Syrian border. Gaziantep Governor Ali Yerlikaya and Fatma Sahin, mayor of Gaziantep city, informed theÃâà...
The Outline
April 20, 2018
Since 2016, the village has partnered with beekeepers throughout the province to produce what it's billing as some of Turkey's highest quality honey — sold locally and ... Once a year, the town even posts a giant list of Ovacık's revenue and expenditures for the public to see on the municipality's walls.
TRT World
April 20, 2018
The seven-year civil war in Syria has pushed tens of thousands of people out of their homes, making them refugees in various countries. Turkey received an influx of 3.5 million Syrians. About 13,000 of them are living in the Oncupinar Refugee Camp in Kilis on the Turkish-Syrian border. We recently visitedÃâà...
Daily Sabah
April 19, 2018
Frustrated with high fees, Bulgarians turn to neighboring Turkey to shop for medicine. Edirne, a Turkish city bordering Bulgaria and Greece, sees a rising number of Bulgarian patients seeking cheap prescription drugs. In daily excursions to Edirne, already a popular route for Bulgarian grocery shoppers,Ãâà...
Kansas City Star
April 17, 2018
The German Foreign Ministry says a German-Turkish dual national has apparently been arrested in Istanbul, an incident that comes as relations between the two countries have been strained by previous arrests of German citizens. The Spiegel Online news website reported Tuesday that Adil Demirci wasÃâà...
Kansas City Star
April 17, 2018
Turkey has failed to make progress and is even backsliding on bringing its laws into line with European Union standards as it seeks to join the bloc, the EU's executive arm said Tuesday. The Turkish government responded by saying the EU had never been "objective, equal or fair" toward Turkey.
Kansas City Star
April 17, 2018
Relations between Greece and Turkey are experiencing a "period of instability," the Greek prime minister said Tuesday, stressing that Greece will not negotiate over any part of its territory. Speaking from the small eastern Aegean island of Kastelorizo, which he visited to inaugurate a desalination plant,Ãâà...
Al-Monitor
April 17, 2018
American Pastor Andrew Brunson, who has become a political football between the United States and Turkey, finally got a chance this week to address ... When he appeared in court April 16 in Aliaga, a town 60 kilometers (38 miles) north of Izmir, Brunson was asked about his alleged Gulenist sympathies.
Kansas City Star
April 16, 2018
An American pastor on Monday denied accusations that he aided terror groups or spied against Turkey, speaking at the beginning of his trial in a ... the state-run Anadolu Agency quoted Brunson as telling the court in the town of Aliaga, some 60 kilometers (38 miles) north of the Aegean coastal city of Izmir.
Al-Monitor
April 15, 2018
ALEPPO, Syria — A Turkish company will build a power plant to provide electricity to the city of Azaz in northern Aleppo province, and Ankara hopes to eventually help provide electricity and other services to the cities and towns damaged in Turkey's Operation Euphrates Shield military intervention.
TRT World
March 31, 2018
Nowruz meaning "new day" in Persian marks the annual start of spring and is celebrated across a wide swath of the Middle East, Caucasus, South Asia and the Balkans. Turkey's eastern city of Van - dubbed as the "pearl of the east" - welcomed a record number of tourists over this year's Nowruz holiday.
CNN
March 19, 2018
(CNN) Syrian rebel fighters backed by Turkey went on a looting spree in Afrin on Sunday after seizing control of the Kurdish-held town following a ... in Operation Olive Branch -- the invasion of Afrin -- and that forces would push eastward towards other Kurdish-held towns in northern Syria and across theÃâà...
Anadolu Agency
March 10, 2018
The field hospital established by the Turkish Health Ministry in Cox's Bazaar city began admitting patients in February. "Rohingya ... The refugees are fleeing a military operation in which security forces and Buddhist mobs have killed men, women and children, looted homes, and torched Rohingya villages.
Toronto Star
March 10, 2018
Turkish-backed Syrian rebels man a checkpoint in the town of Jandairis from Kurdish forces, on March 9, 2018 in Syria's Afrin region, near the Turkish border. Ankara launched operation "Olive Branch" against the Kurdish People's Protection Units on Jan. 20, with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowing itÃâà...
Daily Sabah
March 10, 2018
Prepared by Turkey's İş Bank, the report revealed that house purchases by foreigners in 2017 saw increases each month as the interest of foreign citizens in the ... On a city-by-city basis, Istanbul led the way with 8,183 houses in 2017 and Turkey's largest metropolis was followed by the resort city of Antalya.
AMN Al-Masdar News
March 10, 2018
BEIRUT, LEBANON (9:50 P.M.) – The Turkish-backed rebels have been on a roll in the Afrin region recently, capturing large chunks of territory from the Kurdish-led YPG forces. On Friday, the Turkish-backed rebels continued their push towards Afrin city, seizing two towns in the northern part of this region inÃâà...
New York Times
March 10, 2018
Most of the journalists worked for news organizations that are considered friendly to Fetullah Gulen, a cleric living in seclusion in a small town in Pennsylvania. The Turkish government claims that Mr. Gulen leads a shadowy, violent movement aiming to overthrow President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
U.S. News & World Report
March 9, 2018
Turkey's state-run news agency said meanwhile that Turkish troops and allied Syrian opposition forces had entered the town of Jinderes, in the enclave's southwest, where they were engaged in street clashes with Syrian Kurdish forces. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that a siege ofÃâà...
Anadolu Agency
March 8, 2018
Turkish military and the Free Syrian Army (FSA) on Wednesday cleared all terrorists from Kafr Jana village in Syria's northwestern region of Afrin, ... 20, the Turkish military and the FSA have liberated 151 locations, including four town centers, 121 villages, 30 strategic areas, and one YPG/PKK base.
Anadolu Agency
February 18, 2018
After a year in Turkey, a Sudanese university student is now offering local children in his village free Turkish lessons on weekends. Halid Osman, a student at Khartoum's University of the Holy Qur'an and Islamic Sciences, returned home from a year studying in Turkey and decided to give lessons to childrenÃâà...
Anadolu Agency
December 31, 1999
"This is the second project in a series of projects under the program for sustainable cities, which aims to improve the economic, financial, environmental, and social sustainability of Turkish cities by enabling interested municipalities to access financing for their investments and to deliver improved services toÃâà...
Hurriyet Daily News
December 31, 1999
A rare albino seal has been spotted by the Turkish Search and Rescue Association (AKUT) in the western Turkish resort town of Bodrum. The 2.5-meter-long albino seal has been found swimming on a fish farm near the Torba bay.
Al-Monitor
December 31, 1999
Efforts to drive out the group known as the People's Protection Units (YPG) from Jindires are seen as critical to Turkey's goal of encircling Afrin amid growing debate as to whether Turkey's hawkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will follow through with pledges to capture the city of Afrin itself — a fight thatÃâà...
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