Authorities took into custody 42 people for allegedly bribing the police to avoid inspection and allowing a concrete mixer and earth moving trucks into normal traffic flows, in violation of the law.
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“Journalism is not a crime,” chanted several hundred people gathered outside the central Istanbul court to protest against the prosecution of writers, executives and lawyers of the staunchly secularist Cumhuriyet newspaper.
Outgoing Justice Minister, Bekir Bozdag, joined the list of deputy prime ministers, alongside Defence Minister, Fikri Isik and Health Minister, Recep Akdag.
The state of emergency, put in place days after the July 15, 2016 coup attempt, granted the government wide-ranging powers, allowing it to rule by decree and carry out mass arrests and purges.
He said that there were no fewer than 100 Nigerian companies operating in Turkey while about 75 Turkish firms were in Nigeria.
Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the leader of the Republican People’s Party, told a huge crowd that Turkey was living under dictatorship and pledged to keep challenging the government after completing a 25-day protest march from Ankara to Istanbul
Some 50,000 people have been arrested since the failed putsch in July and around 150,000 sacked or suspended, including soldiers, police, teachers and public servants, over alleged links with the movement of U.S-based cleric Fethullah Gulen
The government accused Gulen of orchestrating last year’s abortive coup and his pushed the U.S. to extradite him.
Gulen has denied links to the putsch attempt by a members of the military.
An official said Turkey is going to build a 70-km wall along the border near eastern Agri Province and Igdir Province, and will also close the rest of border with lights, towers and iron fences
Investigation regarding the incident is being carried out by both parties
The attempt blew into the open on Friday night when some soldiers announced the taking over of government in the media and deployed armoured tanks around the country, especially in Istanbul and Ankara
PM Binali Yildirim earlier denounced an “illegal action” by a military “group”, stressing it was not a coup
“Let me on behalf of myself and on behalf of the Turkey nation extend my condolences to you for the inhuman attacks of January 21 and February 9
“It is also under pressure to stop their perilous onward journeys to Europe and to prevent radical militants from sneaking over what was long a porous border to carry out attacks in Turkey or abroad,” it said
In a statement issued by the Orji Uzor Kalu Media Centre, Abuja on Friday, signed by Rubby Obinna, Kalu said the two countries should behave wisely after Russia had accused Turkey of shooting down her warplane near the Syrian border on November 24, 2015
A Nigerian club side, Red Tigers has claimed the ownership of Super Eagles and Fenerbahce of Turkey striker, Emmanuel Emenike and not the defunct Delta Force FC as it is widely believed.
Super Eagles are taking no chances ahead of Saturday’s AFCON 2015 qualifying tie against the Red Devils of Congo as the African Champions trained under a heavy rain on Thursday in Calabar.
Nigerian striker, Obafemi Martins, has been linked with potential move to Turkey this summer. The Eagle Online gathered that Besiktas…
Usman Bumba, a Deputy Controller of the NCS in the command, told newsmen at the Lapite waste dump site, venue of the destruction exercise, that the new consignment was intercepted on June 6 on the old Abeokuta-Bakatari Road
What has changed that Turkey has become the puppet for imperial design to rip Syria apart so as to achieve two things: one to deprive Iran of an ally in the Middle East and two, to provide Israel the comfort of a weakened Iran and Hamas?