There are certain documents in Turkish history that deeply affected the fate of our state, pushing political figures to chart a new course, and opening up new opportunities; these letters were destined to become historical documents, shaping our reality to the present. One of the most important of these is dated April 26, 1920, signed by Mustafa Kemal (Atatürk), and ...
When Greece was founded in 1830 at the end of an uprising against the Ottoman Empire, a King Otto, a German noble, was put on the throne. Three years before this, the Ottoman-Egyptian joint naval squadron anchored off Pylos/Navarino had been attacked and burned by the British, French and Russian joint fleet as a consequence of which the Ottoman naval ...
On April 27 Haftar declared himself the ruler of Libya. In a video message, Haftar pointed to street demonstrations in areas under his control, and claimed he “accepted the mandate of the Libyan people” to govern the country. He said the agreement, signed by the warring sides in Libya under the auspices of the UN, has “lost its rule.” Hafter ...
Turkey ended the week on a positive note: on April 24, according to the numbers announced by the Minister of Health Fahrettin Koca, for the first time since the beginning of the Coronavirus pandemic, the daily number of people who had recovered from the virus surpassed the number of daily new cases. One of the important events of the last ...
Saleh’s proposals On April 23, Aguila Saleh Issa, Chairman of the House of Representatives of Libya (HoR) – the parliament in Tobruk in eastern part of the country, made an unexpected political proposal. He called for the reestablishment of the Presidential Council and Government, for a change of the Constitution and for the organization of presidential and parliamentary elections afterwards. ...
By Emrah Alan Today is the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. 100 years ago, the National Assembly banded together around Mustafa Kemal in the midst of a life and death struggle. After the Turkish war of independence, Turkey became the center of social revolutions which affected nearly all the oppressed nations struggling against ...
By Zhiqiang Zou As the novel coronavirus pandemic has run rampant globally, confirmed cases of COVID-19 have exceeded 2 million worldwide, with the death toll reaching nearly 166,000. Since the first case was reported in Turkey on March 11, the number of confirmed cases has grown rapidly. As of April 16, 74,193 COVID-19 cases have been reported in Turkey, and ...
US reopening President Donald Trump on Thursday announced a directive for the states to start opening their economies. The US president said the country was now ready to move to the next phase in the war against coronavirus. It was time, he said, “to open up. America wants to be open, and Americans want to be open.” Trump committed his ...
At the beginning of the last week, the Saudi authorities blocked access to two online news portals, TRT Arabi and Anadolu Agency, both owned by the Turkish state. According to Anadolu, until now the Saudi authorities have not made any statements regarding blocking these websites, so it is not officially clear what has caused the Saudi authorities to take this ...
Coronavirus By the end of the week, the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the world was almost 1,700.00 while deaths have exceeded 106,138. The European region (with over 880,000 cases) remains the record holder, followed by the American regions (over 573,000). The largest number of infected in the USA is more than 492.00 cases (according to official statistics alone, ...
As of this week, 1,101 people have died of the Coronavirus in Turkey, with the total number of confirmed cases reaching 52,167 and 5,138 more people having tested positive with the virus in the past 24 hours, the Health Ministry announced on Twitter. According to the official announcements, a total of 2,965 patients have recovered and have been discharged from ...
As is the case in the rest of the world, Turkey continues its struggle against the Covid-19 pandemic. Turkey has so far registered 27,069 coronavirus cases, while the death toll stands at 574. Last Friday, President Erdogan announced new measures to curb the spread of the coronavirus, including a 15-day ban on vehicles leaving or entering 31 cities. Cities such ...