Turkish Culture and Tourism Ministry has pulled back a video showing tourism employees wearing masks with a motto reading “Enjoy. I’m vaccinated.”The promotion video triggered reactions on the social media and added to the criticism against Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavşoğlu’s previous remarks ensuring tourists on not encountering tourism personnel who are not vaccinated. “Sanitized resorts
Despite international calls to Israel, the clashes in East Jerusalem continued for a fourth day, and 24 Palestinians, including nine children, are reported dead in the air strikes on Gaza.The Palestinian Red Crescent announced that more than 700 people were injured in Israel-occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank.The clashes were triggered by Israel’s efforts
Clashes between protesting Palestinians and Israeli police at al-Aqsa Mosque in Eastern Jerusalem continued for another day on May 10 amid international calls to ease tensions.The recent violence erupted on Israeli attempts to replace dozens of Palestinians, giving their homes to Jewish settlers in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of Eastern Jerusalem.Stéphane Dujarric, the official spokesperson
Turkish Interior Ministry declared the closure of the liquor stores during the lockdown as part of the new measures against the rising Covid-19 pandemic, which will start at 7 pm on April 29 to end on May 17.The liquor stores are not included on the exemption list to be valid during the lockdown, Minister Süleyman
The Turkish Parliament condemned U.S. President Joe Biden’s April 24 recognization of the “Armenian genocide” on April 27, one day after President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s reaction to the decision.Along with Erdoğan’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), and its election ally Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) and Meral Akşener’s
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan declared a full lockdown until May 17, following an April 26 cabinet meeting on measures to prevent the spread of the Covid-19 cases.The lockdown begins at 7 p.m. on April 29.“The number of cases should go down to less than 5,000 per day” Erdoğan said, adding that Turkey should not fall
The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF, Russia’s sovereign wealth fund), has announced that newly founded VisCoran İlaç will produce Russian Sputnik V vaccine in Turkey with local partners.The production will start in the upcoming months at several facilities, the company said, one day after Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca announced that Sputnik V will be
U.S. President Joe Biden called Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on April 23, a communication awaited since Biden came to power on Jan. 20 amid a pile of problems between the two countries. The two leaders “agreed on working together to expand cooperation based on strategic nature of bilateral relations, mutual interests,” read a statement
A scandal concerning human trafficking to Germany with “grey passports” normally provided for short-term duties abroad on demand by authorities -including municipalities- broadens with new cases. A prosecutor from Germany’s Hannover has launched a probe into one person, as parliaments of Lower Saxony and Bavaria also discussing the issue.Last week it was reported in the
As the debate over some $128 billion spent from the reserves last year heats up, main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu said he was “not content with” a recent statement by Central Bank Gov. Şahap Kavcıoğlu.“The Central Bank should have made this statement long ago. No statement has been made on this