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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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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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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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There’s been an outpouring of grief following the confirmation of Christian Atsu’s death. John Terry led tributes to the former Chelsea and Newcastle United winger Atsu, who was confirmed to have died in the earthquakes that hit Turkey earlier this month. Atsu was reported to be missing in the immediate aftermath of the tremors that […]
Continue ReadingFormer 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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Turkish rescuers on Saturday pulled three people, including a child, alive from the rubble 13 days after a massive quake claimed tens of thousands of lives, but one later died, a Turkey media platform reported. The channel did not provide any further details. A journalist for Turkish television channel NTV later reported that one of […]
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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 […]
Continue ReadingTurkish 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 […]
Continue ReadingRescuers on Sunday pulled a seven-month-old baby and a teenage girl from the rubble nearly a week after a powerful earthquake devastated huge areas of Turkey and Syria, killing more than 28,000 people. UN relief chief Martin Griffiths warned that the death toll was likely to at least double, while denouncing a failure to provide […]
Continue ReadingEmergency workers in Turkey on Thursday rescued a mother with her two children after they had spent about 78 hours under the earthquake rubble. Pictures show how helpers carried the woman and the children on a stretcher and in slings to the ambulance amid applause from bystanders. They had been holding out under the rubble […]
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