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Turkey announces 4-day curfew over New Year's to combat COVID
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Ankara [Turkey], December 15 (ANI/Sputnik): Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced the introduction of a round-the-clock curfew in Turkey for the New Year holidays, from 9 pm on December 31 to 5 am on January 4.
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Will US and EU sanctions make Erdogan toe the line or make him more defian
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], December 14 (ANI): The past week must have been one of the worst for Turkey's arrogant President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as both the US and the EU, showing their frustration with his numerous unsavoury actions, decided to impose sanctions on Turkey.
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Autocratic Erdogan may soon be called by Biden to pay a price
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], December 7 (ANI): Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is becoming increasingly autocratic, reversing the secularist reforms of the founder of modern Republic of Turkey Kemal Ataturk, sends to jail thousands of journalists, writers, academics and people expressing opp
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EU Parliament Vice President calls for sanctions on Turkey during December
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Brussels [Belgium], November 28 (ANI/Sputnik): The European Union should agree on imposing sanctions on Turkey by the year-end in order to deter Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan from jeopardizing the regional peace any further, European Parliament Vice President Dimitrios Papadimoulis
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Erdogan accepts Turkish Finance Minister's resignation
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Ankara [Turkey], November 10 (ANI/Sputnik): Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accepted the resignation of Finance Minister Berat Albayrak, the Turkish leader's office said in a statement.
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Erdogan stifles further freedom of speech, slaps fines on Facebook, Twitte
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], November 9 (ANI): Turkey on Wednesday imposed 1.1 million euro fines on digital media giants including Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Periscope and TikTok because they did not appoint official representatives in the country, as required by a new digital media law ad
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Pakistan, Turkey wage "hypocritical" war against France
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Tel Aviv [Israel], November 2 (ANI): Following French President Emmanuel Macron's criticism of radical Islam after a school teacher was beheaded in France for showing his pupils cartoons of the Prophet as part of his class on free speech, two so-called champions of selective outrage against
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Erdogan's belligerent policies leave Turkey more isolated than ever
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Nicosia (Cyprus), November 02 (ANI): In the past few years Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has reversed the policy of his country from "zero problems with neighbours" and from a model of Muslim democracy and ally, into a country with almost zero friends and allies, while Ankara is currently
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Turkey Earthquake Victims Count Rises to 58
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Ankara [Turkey], November 1 (ANI/Sputnik): The number of those killed in Friday's earthquake in Turkey has increased to 58, the country's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday.
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Turkey puts death toll from Izmir quake at 37
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Ankara [Turkey], November 1 (ANI/Sputnik): Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said late on Saturday that the death toll from an earthquake in the western Izmir province had climbed to 37, with hundreds more injured.
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Death toll rises to 24 as 6.6 magnitude earthquake rocks Turkey's Aegean c
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Ankara [Turkey], October 31 (ANI): Turkey quake has resulted in the death of 24 people and at least 804 injured when a 6.6 magnitude earthquake rocked the Turkish Aegean coast on Friday, the Disaster Management Agency Authority (AFAD) said early on Saturday.
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Turkey says 12 killed, 438 injured in Aegean Sea earthquake
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Istanbul [Turkey], October 31 (ANI/Xinhua): At least 12 people were killed and 438 others were injured at a strong earthquake that hit Turkey's western province of Izmir on Friday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said.
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