Major steel mills in southeastern Turkey are resuming operations after production was halted earlier due to devastating earthquakes. According to the Turkish Steel Industry Association, almost all factories in the cities of Iskenderun and Osmaniye are restarting operations. The factories are close to the epicentre of the quakes but suffered […]
Greece denies that it is systematically driving migrants back to Turkey, after several media reports. This is what the Greek Minister of Merchant Shipping and Island Policy Yannis Plakiotakis told local media. “All complaints are being investigated, but none have been confirmed at the national or European level so […]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan did not travel to Glasgow on Monday as planned for the COP26 climate summit. However, state media report that the head of government has returned to Turkey from Rome, where he attended the G20 summit last weekend. State news agency Anadolu and other media […]
Muslims can return to pray for the first time in 86 years on Friday morning in Istanbul’s famous Hagia Sophia. The house of prayer was for a long time a museum, but despite international criticism, it is being used again as a mosque. Believers will have to deal with […]
The world-famous Hagia Sophia in Istanbul remains a heritage of the whole world, and the reopening of the ancient building as a mosque does not change that. This was said by a spokesman for Turkish President Erdogan in an interview with Turkish media. Muslims who come to pray do […]
The trial of twenty Saudi suspects accused of murdering Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi started on Friday in the Turkish city of Istanbul. Khashoggi was killed in the Saudi Arabian Consulate in Istanbul in 2018. The trial is by default because the suspects are not present. The main suspects are […]
