[ad_1] The Federal Bureau of Investigation had arrested two people over hurling an IED at New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani’s Gracie Mansion during a rowdy weekend protest. Both arrested individuals are children of immigrants. New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch told reporters on Saturday that an anti-Islam protest was organised by people associated […]
[ad_1] A Russian missile strike damaged a Turkish-owned vessel in the Ukrainian Black Sea port of Odesa on Friday. This prompted calls from Ankara to halt attacks on civilian infrastructure. The attack occurred hours after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan raised the issue personally with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin.“Russia launched a missile strike on […]
[ad_1] Bayraktar Kizilelma UAV during the trails (Courtesy: Sputnik India) Bayraktar Kizilelma, Türkiye’s first uncrewed fighter jet, shot down a jet-powered aircraft with a beyond-visual-range (BVR) air-to-air missile during trials, marking the first time an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has achieved such a feat.In a statement on Sunday, Turkish defence company Baykar, the developer of […]
[ad_1] A choking heatwave left astonished locals in southeastern Turkey calling for state help to pay their air conditioning bills after the temperature surged past 50 degree celsius.“We cannot cope with the heat,” ice-cream maker Recep Esiyok, 59, told AFP in Silopi, where meteorologists measured 50.5C on Friday — a national record.“I’ve been living in […]
[ad_1] ISTANBUL: Turkish authorities escalated their crackdown on the opposition-run Istanbul municipality Saturday over alleged corruption charges, detaining 30 people. Those held include a former MP of the main opposition Republican People’s Party, or CHP, and the mayors of three CHP-run districts of Istanbul. State-run Anadolu Agency reported that the detentions were part of four […]
[ad_1] Turkish nationals appear in Greek court after shooting incident with police in Thessaloniki (Photo: AP) Five Turkish nationals appeared in court in northern Greece on Thursday following a wave of police raids and arrests triggered by a shooting incident reportedly targeting Greek intelligence officers. Three of those arrested were charged and later sentenced to […]
[ad_1] Mystery deepens after British woman dies during Turkish trip but returns without heart (Pic credit: GoFundMeUK) A trip turned into a nightmarish mystery for a British family after 28-year-old Beth Martin, a mother of two, died suddenly in Turkey and returned home without her heart.Beth had only just touched down in Istanbul on April […]
[ad_1] A Turkish student from Tufts University in Massachusetts — released from a Louisiana immigration detention center, Friday — has returned to Boston and has vowed to continue her case in court.Rumeysa Ozturk, a PhD student, was held for more than six weeks after being arrested by immigration officers close to the university in March.Ozturk […]
[ad_1] Ozturk was arrested dramatically in front of her apartment by masked ICE agents. US district judge William Sessions has granted bail to Tufts student Rumetsa Ozturk, a Turkish student who is in the country on a student visa which the ICE revoked and arrested her after she wrote an op-ed in a university newspaper.Her […]
[ad_1] Judge transfers case of detained Turkish PhD student Rumeysa Ozturk to Vermont (Picture credit: AP) A federal judge on Friday ordered the case of Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish doctoral student at Tufts University, to be moved from Massachusetts to Vermont, where she was briefly held after her arrest by immigration officers last week.Ozturk’s lawyers […]
