Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Ankara would approve Finland’s NATO membership as Finnish President Sauli Niinistö is expected to visit Türkiye. “We will keep our promise. After meeting with the President (Niinistö) upon his visit on Friday, we will keep our promise we made,” Erdoğan said on March 15, answering a question about Finland’s
Türkiye’s right-wing opposition İYİ Party leader Meral Akşener announced on March 3 that she defies the six-party opposition alliance over a presidential candidate, stirring debate that she left the alliance with her harsh tone. “I regret to say that at the point we have reached, the table of six has lost its ability to reflect
On February 20, Türkiye was jolted by another earthquake with magnitudes of 6.4 and 5.8 in the devastated city of Hatay, killing six people and injuring 294. The country’s Disaster and Emergency Management Authority, AFAD, announced that Hatay’s Defne district was shaken by an earthquake of magnitude 6.4 at 20:04 (GMT +3) on February 20.
Entering the second week after the two major earthquakes and thousands of aftershocks that devastated Türkiye and Syria, the death toll continues to rise amid a few reports on “miracle rescue” of victims taken out of the rubble defying the limits of the human body. Türkiye’s emergency and disaster authority, AFAD, announced on February 18
Following the two major earthquakes of 7.7 and 7.6 magnitudes that caused severe destruction in Türkiye and Syria, the death toll continues to rise. According to Türkiye’s disaster management authority, AFAD’s latest statement 18,342 people died, 74,242 people injured as of February 10 at 8:30 (GMT+3). 75,780 people were transfered from the earthquake-stricken provinces to other
Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu said that the recent decision of several western countries to close their consulates as a precaution against a possible terror attack, aims at “starting a new psychological warfare in Türkiye,” adding that “it is an international operation against Türkiye.” “The ambassadors who wanted to carry out a legal operation against
Türkiye condemned Sweden over the burning of a copy of the Quran, the holy Book of Muslims in front of the Turkish Embassy in Stockholm on January 21, further straining ties between the two countries as Sweden seeks Turkish approval to be a member of the defense alliance NATO. A Turkish Foreign Ministry statement said
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan signaled that Türkiye may hold its critical presidential and general elections on May 14, fueling further the debate on bringing the election earlier than its scheduled date on June 18. “Late Menderes (Adnan, former Prime Minister) came out of the ballot box with an overwhelming victory on May 14, 1950, by
The arrested chair of Turkey’s top medical association TTB, Şebnem Korur Fincancı, was sentenced to 2 years and 8 months in prison for “disseminating propaganda for an illegal organisation through the press” for speaking on a news programme about alleged chemical weapons use by the Turkish Armed Forces. The Istanbul 24th Criminal Court ruled for
Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan asked Russian President Vladimir Putin for a unilateral ceasefire in Ukraine to support peace and negotiation efforts, in a written statement by the Turkish Presidential Office on January 5. The statement was issued following a telephone conversation between Erdoğan and Putin. Türkiye has been in contact both with Putin and Ukrainian