Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) fighters stand to attention during a ceremony in the Qandil area of northern, Iraq (Image credits: AP) The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group said on Sunday that it was withdrawing all its forces from Turkey to northern Iraq as part of a disarmament process.The group, which has waged an insurgency […]
Over the past 20 years, there has been a 67% rise in diabetes cases in Turkey, meaning that overall prevalence has almost doubled, to more than 16% of the population. The International Diabetes Federation now lists Turkey as the country with the highest diabetes prevalence in the European region. According to data from the World […]
United States President Donald Trump on Thursday urged Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan to stop buying Russian oil to push Moscow to end the war in Ukraine.“I would like to have him stop buying any oil from Russia while Russia continues this rampage against Ukraine. And they’ve been fighting and lost millions of lives already, […]
Turkish police fired tear gas and pepper spray to disperse protesters outside the Istanbul branch of the Republican People’s Party (CHP) on Monday, after a court ruling unseated its provincial leadership and appointed a trustee replacement. The police have also detained between 10 and 20 people at the scene, as per AFP. The court has […]
Turkey bear gets stomach troubles; lands in hospital on stretcher after overeating fruits (SOurce: X/@halktvcomtr) In an unusual sight, a 200-pound bear named ‘Okan’ from a zoo in Çekmeköy, Istanbul, was wheeled into a veterinary hospital in Turkey on a stretcher and scanned through an MRI machine after suffering stomach troubles. According to Istanbul University’s […]
Many travelers traveling between Istanbul’s Asian and European sides have relied on the distinctive white ferries that glide across the Bosphorus Strait for almost 200 years. The boats are nevertheless highly popular in spite of the increasingly crowded seas and competition from the bridges and the underwater metro line of the Turkish megacity.Sehir Hatlari, the […]
Wildfire in Greece (AP photo) Wildfires intensified across southern Europe on Wednesday, killing at least three people and forcing thousands to evacuate homes in Greece, Spain, Turkey and Albania. In Greece, firefighters worked through the night to protect the port city of Patras, the country’s third-largest city. Flames swept through pine forests and olive groves, […]
A magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck western Turkey on Sunday, causing damage in the country’s northwestern Balıkesir province. The tremors were felt as far as 200 kilometres south in Istanbul, according to officials. Videos from the affected area showed buildings collapsing during the quake. At least 29 people were injured.Officials reported that the earthquake destroyed approximately […]
Former Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar‘s widow, Samar Abu Zamer, entered the Hamas tunnel with children, later went to Turkey with a fake passport, according to Ynet. As conditions worsen under Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, reports indicate that families of high-ranking Hamas leaders have departed the territory, sparking local discontent.Ynet suggest that prominent Hamas officials’ families […]
Tech giant Google acknowledged that its earthquake alert system failed to issue critical warnings ahead of the devastating 2023 earthquake in Turkey, which claimed more than 55,000 lives and injured over 100,000 people.Although the Android Earthquake Alerts (AEA) system was active at the time of the twin quakes on 6 February, it failed to recognise […]
