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ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey on Thursday rejected international criticism of its crackdown on protests by students opposing the appointment of a government loyalist to head Istanbul's top university, warning countries to stay out of its domestic issues. For weeks, students and faculty members of Bogazici University have been protesting ...
... the U.K. along with other countries in late December upon discovery of the new strain's spread and quarantined at least 4,603 passengers. Turkey also began to require a negative PCR test result for all international arrivals last week. Turkey has among the worst infection rates in the ...
... 000 children. The programs are managed by the Turkish Red Crescent in partnership with the Red Cross and UNICEF. Money does not go directly to Turkey's government. Turkey is home to almost 4 million refugees. Around 70 percent are women and children, and the overwhelming majority of refugees live ...
... House holiday tradition. Watch the turkey pardon live in the video player above at 2 p.m. ET. On Tuesday, Trump pardoned the annual Thanksgiving turkey in a White House ceremony. The two pardon candidates, turkeys from Iowa, arrived in Washington and are staying at an upscale hotel near the ...
... allies Turkey and the United States have been at odds over the past years over a number of issues, including on policy over Syria and Turkey’s decision to purchase Russia’s advanced anti-aircraft missile systems, which prompted Washington to expel Turkey from its F-35 stealth fighter program ...
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The death toll in last week’s Aegean Sea earthquake rose to 116 on Wednesday as rescuers in the Turkish city of Izmir finished searching buildings that collapsed in the quake. All but two of the victims were killed in Izmir, Turkey’s third-largest city. Two ...
... AFAD said nearly 6,400 personnel had been activated for rescue work and hundreds of others for food distribution, emergency help and building damage control. Turkey is crisscrossed by fault lines and is prone to earthquakes. In 1999, two powerful quakes killed some 18,000 people in northwestern Turkey. Earthquakes ...
... a small tsunami into a coastal district near Izmir, triggering street flooding in the streets. And the earthquake could be felt as far away as Turkey's biggest city, Istanbul, some 300 miles from Izmir, and in Greece's capital, Athens. Seismologists predict the shallow depth of the quake's ...
Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency said the earthquake was centered in the Aegean at a depth of 16.5 kilometers (10.3 miles) and registered at a 6.6 magnitude. The European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre said the quake had a preliminary magnitude of 6.9, with an epicenter ...
... bracing for slimmed-down festivities after the government told people not to meet in groups of more than six. Richard Calcott raises 2,000 Christmas turkeys each year at Calcott Turkeys in Tamworth, England. He bought his turkey chicks — known as poults — in February and March, and it was too ...
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