This is Beirut, 24/10 13:28 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Turkey Bodrum Migrant Sink Boat
At least 14 migrants died when their inflatable dinghy capsized in the Aegean Sea off the Turkish resort of Bodrum, the governor's office said Friday, raising an earlier toll of seven dead. "The lifeless bodies of 14 irregular migrants were recovered," the office of the Mugla governorate said on X, saying the coastguard was alerted ...
This is Beirut, 24/10 13:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Turkey Istanbul Ekrem Imamoglu Jail Spy
Istanbul prosecutors have opened a new investigation into the city's jailed opposition mayor Ekrem Imamoglu on charges of espionage, state news agency Anadolu said on Friday. The probe is the latest targeting Imamoglu, who was arrested in March as part of a corruption investigation and has remained behind bars ever since. His jailing, which ...
Marie de La Roche Saint-André, 24/10 09:45 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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Long sidelined by the United States on Gaza and in wider regional affairs, Turkey is staging a forceful comeback, driven both by the fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and the Gaza agreement brokered by US President Donald Trump. Ankara has played a pivotal role as intermediary between Hamas and Washington, helping to persuade the ...
This is Beirut, 23/10 19:00 - Reading : less than a minute
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More than a dozen Muslim and Arab states condemned on Thursday a pair of Israeli bills calling for the annexation of the occupied West Bank, in a joint statement reported by the Saudi state news agency. The 14 countries, including Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Turkey, as well as the Arab League and Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, said they ...
Liliane Mokbel, 23/10 11:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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De-dollarization — whether an enduring trend or a fleeting declaration — reflects a growing determination among emerging powers to reduce global dependence on the US dollar, long the cornerstone of international trade and finance. The initiative seeks to rebalance a monetary system historically dominated by the greenback and move toward a more ...
This is Beirut, 17/10 22:15 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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Hamas insisted it was committed to returning all the hostage remains still unaccounted for under Gaza's ruins, as a Turkish official said specialists dispatched to help find bodies were on Friday awaiting Israeli permission to enter. Responding to a call from Hamas for help locating the bodies of the 19 hostages, buried under the rubble alongside ...
This is Beirut, 17/10 09:04 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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Turkey has deployed dozens of disaster relief specialists to help search for bodies under the mountains of rubble in Gaza, as US President Donald Trump fired a warning at Hamas Thursday over a spate of recent killings in the territory. Trump characterised the killings as a breach of the ceasefire deal he spearheaded, under which the ...
Natasha Metni Torbey, 15/10 20:00 - Reading : 7 minute(s)
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The peace plan co-signed on Monday in Sharm el-Sheikh by US President Donald Trump and the leaders of Egypt, Qatar and Turkey raises a crucial question: How would Hamas be disarmed? The Trump plan lays out a stark reality: Gaza must be demilitarized. To achieve this, a stabilization force will need to be created. On paper, the plan seems ...
Liliane Mokbel, 15/10 16:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Turkey Lebanon economy gold silver
Lebanese buyers are increasingly turning to precious metals, especially gold and silver, whose international prices have been climbing steadily to record highs. These days, it can take up to a week to obtain a gold bar and nearly two weeks for a kilogram of silver. A few weeks ago, people had to spend over an hour in line to make a purchase. The ...
This is Beirut, 09/10 17:30 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan Gaza Israel
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday said Turkey would participate in a "task force" to oversee the implementation of a ceasefire deal reached between Israel and Hamas. "We will hopefully join the task force that will monitor the implementation of the agreement on the ground," Erdogan said. Turkey, which has been closely involved in the ...
This is Beirut, 08/10 18:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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In a joint press conference on Wednesday, the foreign ministers of Turkey and Syria addressed a wide range of issues, from ongoing negotiations in Gaza to developments in southern Syria and the future of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan warned that Israel’s military operations in southern Syria pose a ...
This is Beirut, 08/10 17:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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By backing the ongoing indirect negotiations in Egypt between Israel and Hamas, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Turkey is drawing on its long-standing ties with the Palestinian Islamist movement. Erdogan said Wednesday that he had been “explicitly” asked by Donald Trump to convince Hamas to engage in peace talks with Israel. The ...