A pregnant Syrian woman and a baby who were brutally murdered in Turkey’s northwest were laid to rest in Syria’s Idlib on July 9
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Turkish citizenship will be granted to a total of 7,000 Syrians after months of work on the issue
Despite a number of fatal accidents earlier this year, hot air balloon tours in the sky of central Turkey’s popular tourism destination Cappadocia continued to attract a large number of tourists and boost the revenue from tourism in the region.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said he is planning to embark on a tour of the Arab Gulf in a bid to ease dialogue between Qatar and Saudi Arabia-led states, after the former rejected implementation of the 13-article conditions imposed by its neighbors amid rising tension
With the inevitable return of Iran to the energy market and the normalization of relations with Israel on track, the two countries present untapped potential for energy-hungry Turkey, says professor Gürkan Kumbaroğlu, ahead of the 22th world petroleum congress due to take place this week in İstanbul
Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has said the 25-day “justice march,” which was completed with a massive rally on Istanbul’s Asian side on July 9, marks a “new beginning” for the country
Germany began on July 9 to pull its troops out of a Turkish air base where they have supported international operations against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) following a row with Ankara over access, a German defense ministry spokesman said
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on July 8 that Turkey would not ratify the Paris climate accord, speaking at the end of the G-20 summit in Germany
“Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım has said Turkey’s domestic contributions in the defense industry have surpassed 60 percent.”
Over half of the construction of Istanbul’s third airport, which is projected by the government to be the largest in the world, has been completed, Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım has stated
Cyprus Mail, a Greek Cypriot newspaper, blamed Greek Cyprus President Nikos Anastasiades for the failure of an international conference for the reunification of the island, citing anonymous United Nations officials who said the Greek Cypriot president had insisted on “zero troops, zero guarantees,” despite the fact that the Turkish side announced its readiness to withdraw a large majority of troops and give up its intervention rights
Speaking at a meeting in Hamburg at the end of the G-20 summit on July 8, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has called Selahattin Demirtaş, the jailed co-chair of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), a “terrorist.”
LOCAL
HAKKARİ/BİTLİS
Four civilians were killed and another was wounded in an outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) attack in the southeastern province of Hakkari on July 8
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DIPLOMACY
HAMBURG
Turkey will not remain unresponsive to support to given to terror organizations in the region, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said.
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MOSUL -Reuters
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced on July 9 "victory" over Islamic State Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in the city of Mosul, his office said
WASHINGTON - Anadolu Agency
Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson will soon travel to Turkey to meet senior officials and discuss a range of bilateral and regional issues, the State Department said on July 5.
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BEIRUT
A ceasefire deal for southwestern Syria took effect at 11:00 a.m. on July 9, the latest international attempt at peacemaking in the country's six-year war
CARACAS – Reuters
Venezuela’s best-known jailed opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez celebrated a surprise return to his family after being granted house arrest on Saturday with a promise to fight on following three years’ imprisonment for leading anti-government protests
JERUSALEM – The Associated Press
Israel’s rabbinical authorities have compiled a blacklist of overseas rabbis whose authority they refuse to recognize when it comes to certifying the Jewishness of someone who wants to get married in Israel
SHANGHAI
U.S. and German medical experts who examined Chinese Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo said on July 9 it was safe to transport him abroad for cancer treatment, contradicting the assertions of Chinese doctors.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, United States
Supporters of the white supremacist Ku Klux Klan marched in Charlottesville, Virginia on July 8 to protest the planned removal of a statue of General Robert E. Lee, who oversaw Confederate forces in the U.S. Civil War
WARSAW
Authorities in Bialystok, Poland, evacuated about 10,000 people from their homes on July 9 after a 500-kilogram World War II-era bomb was found during construction work
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Turkey is no longer the country of 25 days ago, where an outside observer could see only President Tayyip Erdoğan and listen to what he said as Turkey’s political voice
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The New York Times story of a Syrian political opponent, Radwan Ziadeh, who was denied political asylum in the U.S. (June 24-25), says a lot about the evolution of the Syrian affair. Ziadeh was told that “he could not get political asylum in the United States because he organized a conference with Syrian opposition groups – even though the American government has supported members of the same groups in the Syrian civil war,” the NYT reported.
As long as the Greek Cypriots believe the island only belongs to them and the Turkish Cypriot people are a minority (that might be accorded a special status with some privileged rights), there can never be a bi-zonal or bi-communal federal settlement that the two sides have agreed to establish in principle back in 1977. We must confess it: The hope for a Cyprus federation died at Crans-Montana
On one side there is Bodrum; on the other side there is Marmaris. At the center of this paradise lies the Yatağan Thermal Power Station with its giant polluting capacity
Chief Sergeant Ömer Halisdemir took an order over the phone on the night of the July 15, 2016 coup attempt from Special Forces Commander Zekai Aksakallı: “I am giving you a historic duty in the name of our country and nation. Brigadier General Terzi is a traitor, an insurgent. Kill him before he enters the headquarters. There is martyrdom at the end of this. Give your blessing.”
In view of the stark realities of today, Turkey is a long way from securing full EU membership and both sides should explore down-to-earth and “win-win” strategies to avoid one crisis after another.
At a time when political tension is absorbing so much of our energy, it is fascinating that we still have the power to be affected or shocked by a piece of art
A couple of hours after main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu entered the provincial borders of Istanbul on July 7, with 40 kilometers left to go to reach his target, I was having lunch with a diverse group of people
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Turkey’s Mediterranean village of Kuyucak offers a feast for the eyes of local and foreign tourists with its beautiful lavenders, which flourish into their best shape in July
Academic Esra Gürakar speaks to HDN about her book ‘Politics of Favoritism in Public Procurement in Turkey: Reconfigurations of Dependency Networks in the AKP Era’
Burdur’s untouched Salda Lake is likened to Turkey’s Maldives as it has the clearest and healthiest water to swim in and has been visited by many people in recent years
Excavations in İzmir’s Smyrna Agora have unearthed Greek language texts on the walls of a basilica. The texts reveal a sweet competition among three ancient cities in the same region
Culture and Tourism Minister Nabi Avcı has launched the opening of the Byzantine Hall in the Zeugma Mosaic Museum in the southeastern province of Gaziantep
The Ağlı municipality in Kastamonu is taking care of four stork chicks, whose mother has died from an electric shock. The officials feed the storks with meat, bread and water and check on their health every three days
The surprising and unexpected structure of a bath used by the Seljuk sultans has been discovered on top of Takkeli Mountain in Konya.
‘Blue crab tours,’ in which tourists catch blue crabs, learn about them and then set them free is drawing popularity among visitors to Turkey’s southwestern coasts
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Arts and crafts retailer Hobby Lobby has agreed to forfeit thousands of illegally smuggled ancient Middle Eastern artifacts obtained from antiquities dealers for a Bible museum headed by its president, the company and U.S. officials said on July 5
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