This Is Beirut, 03/09 18:48 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Turkey has submitted a request to join the BRICS group of major emerging market nations, the spokesman of the ruling party of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday. "Our president has many times stated that we want to become a BRICS member... The process is now underway," said Omer Celik, spokesman for the ruling Justice and Development ...
This Is Beirut, 24/08 20:39 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Two female journalists were killed and a man was injured on Friday in Iraqi Kurdistan in a drone strike targeting their vehicle, a bombing attributed to the Turkish military engaged against Turkish Kurdish fighters of the PKK, local officials told AFP. “It is not the Turkish military,” the Turkish Ministry of Defense in Ankara told AFP when ...
This Is Beirut, 15/08 17:59 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas told a special session of the Turkish parliament on Thursday that he would travel to Gaza. As he was speaking, Health Ministry officials in the Palestinian territory said the death toll from Israel's assault there had passed 40,000 people. "I have decided to go to Gaza with other brothers from the ...
This Is Beirut, 08/08 17:04 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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The Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, arrived in Ankara on Friday for a working visit, according to a statement issued by the Amiri Diwan of Qatar. The Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the Emir jointly appealed for greater international efforts to stop the Middle East conflict from escalating. The joint appeal came as the ...
This Is Beirut, 05/08 18:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused social media networks of "fascism" and censorship on Monday as his government blocked Instagram for a fourth day. The United States-owned platform, which has an estimated 50-60 million subscribers in Turkey, has been accused by government officials of censorship and failing to remove posts the ...
This Is Beirut, 04/08 11:46 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Instagram users in Turkey woke up Sunday to find the social media network blocked for the third consecutive day, following censorship accusations against the US company from a high-ranking Turkish official. The BTK communications authority announced on its website on Friday that the Meta-owned platform had been frozen, without giving any ...
This Is Beirut, 02/08 11:38 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Turkey on Friday blocked access to the Instagram social media network, the national communications authority said without explanation, following censorship accusations against the US company by a high-ranking Turkish official. The BTK communications authority said in a post on its website that "instagram.com has been blocked by a decision on the ...
This Is Beirut, 01/08 19:34 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Jailed US journalist Evan Gershkovich and a Russian intelligence colonel jailed for a Berlin murder were among two dozen prisoners freed Thursday in the biggest East-West prisoner swap since the Cold War. The prisoners were flown to Turkey's capital Ankara from Russia, the United States, Germany, Poland, Slovenia, Norway and Belarus under the ...
This Is Beirut, 21/07 13:16 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Turkey is pushing for diplomatic and economic influence on the world stage – not least in Africa, where it announced plans this week to search for oil and gas off Somalia. Over President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's two decades in power, Ankara has consolidated its foothold on the continent, quadrupling its number of embassies there. Here are five ...
This Is Beirut, 21/07 11:28 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
With the possibility of normalization between Turkey and Syria on the horizon, a number of problematic issues may block the path, according to analysts. After a long estrangement, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad may be edging towards a meeting, but analysts say normalization will likely be gradual ...
This Is Beirut, 20/07 17:27 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Cyprus on Saturday marked 50 years since Turkish troops invaded the Mediterranean island, with comments from the Turkish and Cypriot leaders demonstrating the stark divide that remains. The Greek-Cypriot president of Cyprus, who seeks a bi-zonal, bi-communal federation under a UN framework, said there was no other option but reunification. But ...
This Is Beirut, 10/07 14:50 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
An Iraqi court has sentenced to death a wife of slain Islamic State group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi on charges of detaining Yazidi women, the judiciary said on Wednesday. The wife of the polygamous Baghdadi was brought back to Iraq after being detained in Turkey, judicial sources told AFP under cover of anonymity because they were not ...