Five prosecutors were appointed to investigate an underground coal mine explosion that killed 41 workers in northern Turkey, the country’s Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag said last night. “I would like to express clearly to the [Read More]
The death toll in an underground coal mine explosion in northern Turkey rose to 41, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday in the Bartin province, where the blast took place a day earlier. The [Read More]
An underground coal mine explosion in the northern Bartin province of Turkey trapped 49 miners on Friday, the local NTV broadcaster reported. “An explosion occurred at the minus 300-meter elevation at 6:15 p.m. local time [Read More]
Turkey and Qatar signed 11 new agreements during the eighth meeting of their Supreme Strategic Committee in Istanbul on Friday, state-run Anadolu Agency reported. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and visiting Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim [Read More]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday that the country’s Thrace region could be the best place to serve as an energy hub after his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin proposed to increase Russia’s gas [Read More]
Queer Cyprus, a civil society movement in the Turkish occupied north, is requesting that institutions drop their demand for prerequisites for legal recognition of gender. ‘The binary gender regime continues to create rights violations day [Read More]
Ukraine has considered expanding the range of goods for exports via its seaports and stands ready to discuss the issue with Turkey, the government-run Ukrinform news agency reports. “We are raising a question about the [Read More]
Emirali Gulmez, a retired Turkish citizen in his late 70s, lives alone in a slum on an always windy and chilly hill of Turkey’s largest city Istanbul. Gulmez’s tiny house is equipped with a natural [Read More]
Kıbrıs Postası, a Turkish Cypriot daily, has published an interview with the ‘minister of public works and transport’ Erhan Arikli, who stated that a Russian company has applied to operate direct flights from Russia to the [Read More]
Some European companies are mulling shifting production to Turkey amid the continent’s energy crunch caused by the Russia-Ukraine conflict, business professionals said. Turkey wants to put its geographic advantage to good use to accommodate more [Read More]
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