Turkey on Friday lifted passport restrictions on nearly 60,000 people with alleged ties to failed coup in 2016, the Interior Ministry said.
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Gaziantep of Turkey centre, Tonye Jekiri, and Gombe Bull’s rising star, Buchi Agu, may be in line for their D’Tigers debut when the team files out against Côte d’Ivoire on Friday.
A 1,200-year-old Bible was found during an anti-smuggling operation in South-eastern Turkey, the Governor’s Office said on Tuesday.
Turkish authorities are seeking to detain 60 active-duty military personnel, including pilots, with alleged links to the 2016 failed coup, state news agency Anadolu said on Monday.
The committee said 70 per cent of the jailed journalists were charged with anti-state activities, including being part of groups considered as terrorists by authorities
The minister disclosed this in Istanbul, Turkey, on Monday while speaking at the ongoing 3rd UNWTO/UNESCO World Conference on Tourism and Culture, jointly organized by the two UN agencies.
Numan Kurtulmus, the Deputy Chairman of President Tayyip Erdogan’s AK Party, made the accusation on Wednesday, in Istanbul.
Reuters correspondent, Huseyin Aldemir, reported that people attended the symbolic funeral prayer for Khashoggi at the courtyard of Fatih Mosque in Istanbul on November 16.
US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo said the action was taken under the authority of Executive Order 13818, which implements and builds upon the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act.
Erdogan, speaking to newsmen on his way back from the World War I commemorations in Paris, said audio recordings of the case have been shared with Saudi Arabia, the US, France, Canada, Germany and Britain.
Erdogan told reporters on his plane while returning from a weekend visit to France that he discussed the Saudi journalist’s killing with the US, French and German leaders at dinner in Paris.
A 23-year-old Nigerian footballer, Ekundayo Ebenezer Mawoyeka, has died after suffering a heart attack during a match in Turkey at the weekend.
He told Turkey’s Anadolu news agency that it had been accepted that Khashoggi, who disappeared in Saudi Arabia’s Istanbul Consulate on October 2, was targeted in a pre-meditated murder.
CIA Director, Gina Haspel, heard an audio recording of the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi during her visit to Turkey, two sources told Reuters on Thursday.
Japanese diplomats in Turkey confirmed the released man was Jumpei Yasuda, a 44-year-old freelancer who was reported to have been captured by an AlQaeda affiliate after entering Syria from Turkey in 2015.
President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday Turkey will bring justice on those responsible for the killing of Saudi journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, from those who ordered it to those who executed it.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday met with visiting US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Ankara, amid disappearance of a Saudi journalist, which has attracted worldwide concern.
Barcelona midfielder Arda Turan, currently on loan with Turkish club Basaksehir, has been charged over a clash with a prominent singer, and prosecutors are seeking up to 12-1/2 years in jail for the Turkey international, state media reported on Tuesday.
These countries ties had been strained by disputes over Syria, Iran and Ankara’s planned purchase of Russian military equipment.
UEFA will make its final decision on the venue for its 2024 flagship tournament when its executive committee meets on Thursday at its headquarters in the Swiss town of Nyon.