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President Erdogan Declared Winner Of Turkey’s Runoff Election

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has won the country’s presidential runoff election on Sunday. With the victory, Erdogan will extend his 20 years at the top of Turkey’s political landscape. Erdogan received 27,513,587 votes, or 52.14% of the votes cast, according to figures released by the country’s Supreme Election Council, beating challenger Kemal Kilicdaroglu who had […]

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Ex-Barcelona player, Turan,becomes Eyüpspor coach

Former Barcelona midfielder, Arda Turan, has become the new coach of a Turkish second-tier side, Eyüpspor. This was disclosed on Friday by the Club Vice President, Fatih Kulaksız. The new appointment is his first coaching assignment at the club. Until his appointment, he had played for Atletico Madrid, Galatasaray, Medipol Başakşehir, and Barcelona. “We signed […]

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Earthquake: Nigeria donates $1million to Turkey

A delegation of President Muhammadu Buhari, led by the Minister of the Federal Capital Minister, has delivered $1million support fund to the Turkish government. Bello and other members of the delegation were received by the Turkish Foreign Affairs Minister, Ambassador Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in Ankara, the Turkish capital. The visit […]

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How Christian Atsu cancelled flight leaving Turkey hours before death

Former Chelsea and Newcastle star, Christian Atsu, was killed by the disastrous earthquake that struck southern Turkey and northern Syria on February 6. According to Mirror UK, his flight was scheduled to fly out of Turkey just hours before the devastating earthquake in the region. Atsu played for Hatayspor in their Turkish Super Lig clash […]

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Turkey Rescues Two Persons 11 Days After Quake

Turkish rescuers on Thursday pulled a 17-year-girl and a woman in her 20s from the rubble of last week’s devastating earthquake, as hopes fade of finding more survivors. Aleyna Olmez, 17, was rescued 248 hours after the 7.8-magnitude quake flattened entire cities, killing nearly 40,000 people across southeastern Turkey and parts of Syria. “She looked […]

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Turkey arrests building contractors 6 days after quakes

Turkish officials detained or issued arrest warrants for some 130 people allegedly involved in shoddy and illegal construction methods as rescuers on Sunday continued to pull a few survivors from the rubble, six days after a pair of earthquakes collapsed thousands of buildings. The death toll from Monday’s quakes that hit southeastern Turkey and northern […]

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