A bus crashes into vehicles in southern Turkey, leaving 10 dead and 39 injured
A passenger bus crashed into vehicles on a highway in southern Turkey, killing at least 10 people and leaving 39 others injured, officials said Monday. Source link
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Illegal Alien From Turkey is More Worried About Open Border than Joe Biden – HotAir
You know things are pretty bad on the southern border when one of the illegal aliens exploiting it voices concern about how easy it is to invade this country. Talk about stating the obvious, yet it is something that President Biden refuses to acknowledge. The southern border is wide open. There are not enough border […]
Turkey Goes All In Against Israel – HotAir
Has Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan finally lost his mind entirely? It seems possible after he addressed the Turkish Parliament yesterday. Railing against the war in Gaza, Erdogan proclaimed to his legislators that it’s Israel that poses the true threat of escalation. He claimed that if they succeeded in defeating Hamas, they would not stop […]
Erdogon Defends Hamas; Treating 1000 Hamas Fighters in Turkey – HotAir
This is…disturbing. On so many levels. Turkey, a NATO country, is accepting Hamas terrorists and treating them in its hospitals. How did 1,000 Hamas terrorists end up in Turkey? If this is true it’s incredibly concerning and shows the systematic way that the Hamas massacre has been backed. https://t.co/wglt1jlhs0 — Seth Frantzman (@sfrantzman) May 13, […]
Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis in Turkey for talks as the regional rivals seek to improve relations
ISTANBUL — Greece’s leader arrived in Turkey’s capital on Monday for talks with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as both countries pursue a normalization program and seek to put aside decades-old disputes. Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis was welcomed by Erdogan and a military guard of honor at the presidential palace in Ankara before the leaders’ […]
Turkey opens another former Byzantine-era church as a mosque
ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan formally opened a former Byzantine church in Istanbul as a mosque on Monday, four years after his government had designated it a Muslim house of prayer, despite criticism from neighboring Greece. Turkey formally converted The Church of St. Saviour in Chora, known as Kariye in Turkish, into […]
A Poacher’s Worst Nightmare Unfolds as K-9 Trots Into the Turkey Woods
When there’s a job that needs to be done, give it to a dog. In Miami County, Kansas, a K-9 named Indy, with a bit of help from Game Warden Mitch Falls, busted turkey poachers on April 20. “Indy was at it again Saturday evening! Just after 6pm, a landowner in Miami County reported turkeys […]
Turkey detains 4 people as part of probe into landslide at gold mine that left at least 9 missing
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Authorities on Wednesday detained four people in connection with a massive landslide that engulfed a gold mine in eastern Turkey, leaving at least nine workers missing, Turkish state media reported. The landslide struck the Anagold Madencilik company’s Copler mine in the town of Ilic in Turkey’s mountainous Erzincan province on Tuesday. […]
U.S. Kurdish allies in Syria say they are under attack by Turkey
The commander of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces accused Turkey of launching airstrikes against civilian targets in the northeast part of the country, including oil facilities that underpin much of the local economy. Gen. Mazloum Abdi briefed journalists in Washington on Thursday about the U.S.-backed force’s operations alongside coalition allies to prevent a resurgence of […]
U.S. OKs F-16 fighter jet sale to Turkey, F-35s to Greece after Turkey backs Sweden’s entry to NATO
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration has approved the sale of F-16 fighter jets to Turkey following the Turkish government’s ratification this week of Sweden’s membership in NATO. The move is a significant development in the expansion of the alliance, which has taken on additional importance since Russia‘s invasion of Ukraine. The State Department notified Congress […]