27 members of the U.S. House of Representatives wrote to the Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, demanding that steps be taken to prevent the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) production of Turkey, claiming that they change the political balance in the region and harmed American interests. In the letter dated August 9, signatory members of the
Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu told journalist Muharrem Sarıkaya late on August 7 on private broadcaster HaberTürk that he favors metropolitan mayors from this main opposition party to continue “for the second term”.This response was interpreted as Kılıçdaroğlu blocking the way for İstanbul Ekrem İmamoğlu and Ankara Mayor Mansur Yavaş to run for
Turkey has been fighting forest fires for days. Drought was on the agenda before the fires. We still haven’t forgotten the death of the flamingos in Salt Lake. We are paying the heaviest price of the global warming bill in the Anthropocene era. When and how the fires will end is not easy to predict.
As a young journalist, I was assigned to the airport to report on the foreign dignitaries coming to attend Turkey’s 8th president Turgut Özal’s funeral.Some countries came in small delegations, while some others came with two jam-packed airplanes.Seeing my astonishment a veteran diplomat told me: “Set aside the United States, the more advanced a country
A group of journalists covering the wildfires in the Aegean coast of Marmaris were attacked by a pro-government mob late on Aug. 5. Commentators covering the poor measures against the fire that destroyed forests and fields in a peninsula were first interrupted by a group during live broadcast, who said they want to join the
The wildfires continue not only in the forests and on the shores of Turkey’s Aegean and Mediterranean regions, but also in every field. The fire in politics is visible when the seats in the cabinet of President Tayyip Erdoğan are shaken and the minister-lottery is played in Ankara. The fire in the field of foreign
Wildfires have destroyed forests on the Aegean and Mediterranean coasts of Turkey, claiming at least eight lives. Yet, a political fire burns in Ankara, with debate on a cabinet shift heating up. President Tayyip Erdoğan netted reactions for distributing packages of tea to the fire victims in Marmaris and his motorcade keeping ambulances and fire
The brutal murder of seven members of a family in the court of their house by their neighbor in the Central Anatolian province of Konya on July 30 fueled a debate on racism.The Dedeoğulları, a Kurdish family that moved to Konya some three decades ago, was the target of the massacre by Mehmet Altun, who
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