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Turkey reports first death from coronavirus
Updated : 5 years, 12 months ago IST
Ankara [Turkey], Mar 18 (ANI): Turkish Health Ministry on Tuesday reported the first death from novel coronavirus in the country, while 51 additional cases were diagnosed, raising the tally to 98.
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Erdogan sought to downplay coronavirus spread over fear of tourism industr
Updated : 5 years, 12 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], Mar 17 (ANI): Turkish Health Ministry remained in denial of the existing cases of coronavirus in the country despite evidence showing confirmed cases having travel history to Turkey, as authorities silenced whistleblowers and used media to push the narrative of the co
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Turkey shoots down two Syrian jets in Idlib, pilots eject safely: Report
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Hama [Syria], Mar 1 (Sputnik/ANI): Turkish armed forces shot down two Syrian planes in the northwestern Idlib province on Sunday, a state Syrian news agency said.
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9 killed, 37 injured in eastern Turkey after earthquake hits Iran border a
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Ankara [Turkey], Feb 23 (ANI): At least nine people died and 37 others sustained injuries in eastern Turkey on Sunday after an earthquake measuring 5.7 on the Richter scale struck Turkey-Iran border region, local media reported, citing the country's Health Minister.
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Turkey earthquake: 18 dead, over 550 injured; 35 aftershocks registered
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Ankara [Turkey], Jan 25 (ANI): The death toll in the 6.8 magnitude earthquake which struck eastern Turkey on Friday has risen to 18, while over 550 others have sustained injuries, country's Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said on Saturday.
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Death toll in Turkey quake rises to 14
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Ankara [Turkey], Jan 25 (ANI): The death toll in the 6.8 magnitude earthquake which struck eastern Turkey on Friday has risen to 14, while 55 others have sustained injuries, country's Disaster and Emergency Management Authority said, as cited by Anadolu Agency.
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4 dead as powerful 6.8 magnitude earthquake strikes eastern Turkey
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Ankara [Turkey], Jan 25 (ANI): At least four people died after an earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale struck eastern Turkey on Friday, country's Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said.
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6.8 magnitude quake strikes eastern Turkey
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Ankara [Turkey], Jan 25 (ANI): An earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale struck eastern Turkey on Friday, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said.
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EU denies reports of it cutting pre-accession aid to Turkey by 75%
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Brussels [Belgium], Jan 19 (ANI): The European Union (EU) on Sunday denied media reports that it had agreed to new reduction in pre-accession aid to Turkey by 75 per cent.
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Erdogan harassing pro-Kurdish party members to gain Turkish nationalists'
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Virginia [USA], Jan 17 (ANI): The major gains made by pro-Kurdish left-wing People's Democratic Party (HDP) in the 2014 presidential polls and 2015 general election of Turkey made President Recep Tayyip Erdogan use his power by punishing his Kurdish opponents through the judicial route to se
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Istanbul airport temporarily closed after passenger plane skids off runway
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Ankara [Turkey], Jan 7 (Sputnik/ANI): Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen International Airport has been temporarily shut down after a passenger plane skidded off a runway on Tuesday, the local media has reported.
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'Those not supporting Erdogan regime labelled as Gulen follower, given har
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 26 (ANI): M Behzad Fatmi, a Turkish political expert and commentator, has said that those people who are not throwing their weight behind the government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan are given a very severe punishment and is dubbed as a follower of the U
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