Turkey seeks 2,352-year jail term for opposition leader
Istanbul’s chief public prosecutor filed a sweeping indictment against the city’s jailed mayor, Ekrem İmamoğlu, accusing him of 142 offences tied to corruption and organized crime, and seeking a total prison sentence exceeding 2,000 years. İmamoğlu, a prominent opposition figure…
Turkey’s begins public ‘fat check’ on overweight people
Turkish health workers have been deployed across each of the country’s 81 regions with weighing scales and tape measures as the drive to assess 10 million people by July 10 is underway to prevent some 50 percent of the population…
Turkey clears Sweden’s way to NATO
After blocking Sweden’s bid to join NATO for months, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has agreed to send the protocol on Sweden’s accession to the alliance to Turkey’s parliament, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Twitter on July 10….
As Russia rumbles, Ukraine inches closer to NATO membership
While Russian is facing internal turmoil over disloyalty and treachery among key instruments used by Kremlin to galvanize global influence, Ukraine has been working to foster its relationship with the world’s most powerful military and economic alliance, NATO. Ukrainian president,…
Soccer star Christian Atsu, pulled from earthquake rubble
Ghanaian professional footballer export, Christian Atsu, has been pulled from the rubble of a building after the earthquakes in Turkey that have killed at least 4,800 people. His club’s vice-president Mustafa Özat told Turkish radio that Atsu who plays for…
Earthquakes: The world unites in aid to Turkey, Syria
Sopuruchi Onwuka, with agency reports Nearly 3500 people have been confirmed dead and tens of thousands of others reported with severe injuries in the neighbouring countries of Turkey and Syria after series of 6.0, 7.5 and 7.8 magnitude earthquakes came…
