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Tokyo Olympic Games will be held between July 24 Aug. 9 as scheduled, despite the ongoing coronavirus outbreak, Uğur Erdener, the vice president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) told YetkinReport, elaborating on the justifications of the Committee. In an exclusive interview, Erdener said that the IOC considered “no immediate need” to postpone the Tokyo
Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan is scheduled to deliver his first speech on corona outbreak on March 18, a week after the first case was spotted in Turkey on March 11. A night before, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca announced the first Corona-related death in Turkey; an 89-year-old man, reportedly living in Istanbul. The number of cas-es,
Dr. Gökhan Hotamışlıgil was quite sad when we spoke on the phone about the coronavirus on March 16. Most of Harvard University’s biomedical research laboratories, where Nobel Prize-winning studies were conducted, were temporarily closed due to the coronavirus. Out of all the laboratories of the medical school at Harvard University, one of the top universities
Ali Babacan announced the establishment of the Democracy and Enterprise Party (DEVA) at the Bilkent Hotel conference room in Ankara on March 11. The initials of the party’s name also have a meaning in Turkish: a cure, a remedy). He made his entry into the Turkish political life 19 years ago in the very same
Now its officially in Turkey, too, after 114 countries in the World. Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said in early hours of March 11 that the first Turkish patient, a male, had been disinfected during a travel to Europe, not to China. Perhaps it will be too speculative to question a link between the year
President Tayyip Erdoğan arrived in Brussels on March 9 for a series of top-level meetings. But the public influence of a video report by the Russian state broadcaster Rossiya, which claimed that Russian leader Vladimir Putin “kept him waiting for two minutes,” was in the back of his mind. It was no coincidence that the
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on March 6 that Europe was “not going to be blackmailed by Turkey over this problem”, meaning the Syrian (and other) refugees piled up on the two countries’ common border. He was also saying that the 2016 agreement to curb “irregular migration” was “dead” because Turkey ceased to stop
It is a cliché to say “a photo tells a thousand words” but it is true most of the time. Does this photo taken when the doors opened after talks between Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan and his Russian host Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin tell anything positive and promising to you? A face-to-face or “restricted
Murat Yetkin President Tayyip Erdoğan is scheduled to discuss the Syria and Idlib crisis with Russian President Vladimir Putin on 5 March in Moscow. Before this contact, there is more news that the forces affiliated with the Bashar Assad regime were attacking Turkish troops around Idlib, and that a U.S. delegation including the U.N. Permanent