A picture provided by the Kremlin on 14 September 2021 shows Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) meeting with Syrian President Bashar Assad in the Kremlin. -/Kremlin/dpa The presence of foreign troops in Syria – the ones not invited by Damascus – are hindering Syria’s revival, Russian President Vladimir Putin told Bashar al-Assad during a surprise […]
Syria’s longest river used to flow by his olive grove, but today Khaled al-Khamees says it has receded into the distance, parching his trees and leaving his family with hardly a drop to drink. “It’s as if we were in the desert,” said the 50-year-old farmer, standing on what last year was the Euphrates riverbed. […]
By Ali Kucukgocmen VAN, Turkey (Reuters) – Afghans who manage to make the weeks-long journey through Iran on foot to the Turkish border face a three-metre high wall, ditches or barbed wire as Turkish authorities step up efforts to block any refugee influx into the country. The beefed up border measures in Turkey, which already […]
By Mehmet Emin Caliskan and Bulent Usta BOZKURT, Turkey (Reuters) – Families of those missing after Turkey’s worst floods in years anxiously watched rescue teams search buildings on Saturday, fearing the death toll from the raging torrents could rise further. At least 40 people have died from the floods in the northern Black Sea region, […]
Firefighters work to extinguish burning trees as wildfires have been raging for nearly 10 days near Mugla. Hakan Akgun/SOPA Images via ZUMA Press Wire/dpa More than 5,000 firefighters in Turkey, backed by aerial and ground support, battled the worst wildfires in over a decade on Saturday, while six fires are still out of control, Agriculture […]
Firefighters work to extinguish burning trees as wildfires have been raging for nearly 10 days near Mugla. Thousands of ground personnel, backed by firefighter planes, drones and helicopters, were striving to tackle massive wildfires across seven cities and provinces in southern TurkeyMugla is one of the regions hardest hit by the fires. Hakan Akgun/SOPA Images […]
Ankara’s surprise proposal to protect Kabul’s strategic airport after US forces leave Afghanistan gave Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan a chance to build a rapport with US President Joe Biden during their first meeting at a NATO summit in June Ankara (AFP) – Turkey is offering to protect Kabul’s strategic airport after US forces leave […]
Millions of Turks have been glued to their screens, watching a crime boss tell wild stories about international drug smuggling, murders and the murky ties between politicians and the mafia. But the gang boss starring in these videos is real, and his claims have set off a political tsunami that has unsettled President Recep Tayyip […]
[Verse 1] It’s do or die And I’m burning up inside I know that something really isn’t right I shake, I sweat I’m writhing in the bed For just a puff, just a little spike [Pre-Chorus] Pump it up into me Please daddy, please daddy Pump it up, pump it up Into me [Chorus] Could I have one more […]
By Dominic Evans and Orhan Coskun ISTANBUL (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden’s declaration that the massacres of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire constituted genocide is “simply outrageous” and Turkey will respond in various ways over the coming months, Turkey’s presidential spokesman said on Sunday. Biden broke on Saturday with decades of carefully calibrated White […]
US President Joe Biden on Friday spoke to an alarmed Turkey a day before he is expected to make the landmark recognition of the Armenian genocide. Saturday marks the 106th anniversary of the waning Ottoman Empire’s mass killings of hundreds of thousands of Armenians, whose descendants have pressed hard for the world to describe the […]
Thousands of Armenians marched Friday in Yerevan to commemorate WWI-era mass killings of their kin by Ottoman forces, the bloodletting which US President Joe Biden is reportedly set to recognize as genocide. The annual torch-lit march was held on the eve the 106th anniversary of the massacres in which — Armenians say — up to […]
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Egypt – Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov attends talks at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo. – -/Russian Foreign Ministry/dpa Moscow is warning countries not to supply weapons to Kiev, amid an escalation in the conflict in eastern Ukraine. “We urge all responsible countries that we communicate with – […]
The European Commission hit out Wednesday after its chief Ursula von der Leyen was left without a chair as Turkey’s president sat down for talks with her male counterpart. Video from Tuesday’s encounter in Ankara showed von der Leyen flummoxed as Recep Tayyip Erdogan and European Council president Charles Michel took two chairs in front […]
A senior Saudi official reportedly threatened to “take care of” Agnès Callamard, the United Nations special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings, after she investigated the assassination of Saudi journalist and U.S. resident Jamal Khashoggi, who was gruesomely murdered at the alleged behest of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The Guardian reported Tuesday that a U.N. […]
By Jonathan Spicer ISTANBUL (Reuters) – European leaders criticised what they called Turkey’s baffling and concerning decision to pull out of an international accord designed to protect women from violence, and urged President Tayyip Erdogan to reconsider. Erdogan’s government on Saturday withdrew from the Istanbul Convention, which it signed onto in 2011 after it was […]
Facebook’s move to censor social media posts of a Syrian militia group in 2018 at the request of the Turkish government raises serious questions about the company’s commitment to free expression, the chair of the Senate Finance Committee wrote in a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday. ProPublica reported last month that Sheryl […]
I go banananananana, I go crazy crazy crazy Crazy crazy crazy stupid stupid stupid [Chorus:] I go banananananana, I go crazycrazycrazy I go stupid stupid stupid yay yay yay yay. If you know you turnt uup, say yay ay yay If you know you turnt uup, say yay yay yeahhh I’m so turned up right […]
President Joe Biden is testing whether he can bring sweeping changes in Afghanistan, including a potential government involving the Taliban, in a high-risk strategy as he weighs whether to honor a May deadline to end America’s longest war. In a letter leaked to Afghan media over the weekend, Secretary of State Antony Blinken encouraged Afghan […]
A strong 6.3-magnitude earthquake hit central Greece on Wednesday, damaging several buildings, including schools, and prompting residents near the epicentre to rush into the streets. “Everything happened very fast, people ran out of buildings, there are still aftershocks,” Chrissoula Katsiouli, a staffer at the mayor’s office in the local town of Elassona told AFP. The […]
As Turkey launched a military offensive against Kurdish minorities in neighboring Syria in early 2018, Facebook’s top executives faced a political dilemma. Turkey was demanding the social media giant block Facebook posts from the People’s Protection Units, a mostly Kurdish militia group the Turkish government had targeted. Should Facebook ignore the request, as it has […]
A volley of rockets targeted the Kurdish regional capital in northern Iraq late Monday, authorities said, as security sources confirmed that at least one hit a military complex hosting US-led coalition troops. The attack was the first time Western military or diplomatic installations have been targeted in Iraq in nearly two months, after a string […]
Chestnuts roasting on an open fire Jack Frost nipping at your nose Yuletide carols being sung by a choir And folks dressed up like Eskimos Everybody knows a turkey and some mistletoe Help to make the season bright Tiny tots with their eyes all aglow Will find it hard to sleep tonight They know that […]
Many health officials are being asked whether or not they believe that the new COVID-19 variant that has been spreading rapidly in the U.K. could reduce the efficacy of the vaccines now being distributed. Socoiologist Zeynep Tufekci notes that so far, “many scientists” believe that this variant “will not decrease vaccine efficacy much, if at […]
Royal Canadian blended The spicy aroma had mended me Matured for years and imported Into my glass you poured it And you’re the only reason That I remain unfrozen Suppose it stands to reason That you would turn on me You’re so solid You’re so solid It burns inside of me Cause you’re so solid […]
: Chestnuts roasting on an open fire Jack Frost nipping at your nose Yule-tide carols being sung by a choir And folks dressed up like Eskimos. Everybody knows a turkey and some mistletoe Help to make the season bright Tiny tots with their eyes all aglow Will find it hard to sleep tonight. They know […]
[Intro] Uh, yo (AC, the motherf*ckin' diva) Yo [Verse] New gun come with a drum, but no beam (Brra) I get in the booth, no turkey, I go ham (Come on) Shoutout to the bitches who hate me but still dance (Ha) Get it how you live, keep f*ckin' that old man (Ah-hahaha) Frontin' ass niggas, showin' they whole hand […]
Robert C. Baker died on a Monday We all know his work, although few knew his name A Cornell professor who taught poultry science Forever enshrined in the poultry Hall of Fame 84 years worth of food innovations: Chicken dogs, turkey dogs and turkey ham Beyond them all stands Baker’s greatest creation For Baker begat […]
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo paid a fraught visit to Istanbul on Tuesday that included no official meetings and an agenda focused on religious freedoms that Ankara dismissed as “irrelevant”. Ties between Washington and its strategic NATO ally have remained tense despite a personal friendship between US President Donald Trump and his Turkish counterpart […]
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