Former State basketball player Adreian Payne was murdered on Monday 

Adreian Payne

Former Michigan State basketball superstar Adreian Payne changed into shot and killed early Monday morning in Orlando, Florida. A source confirmed Payne’s loss of life to the Free Press on Monday morning. Around midday, the Orange County Sheriff’s Office in Florida introduced it and replied to a call at 1:37 a.M. Of a person who … Read more

Cocaine, meth at ‘record availability’ in EU: report

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The market for cocaine and methamphetamine is growing in Europe, driven by record levels of trafficking and resulting in violence and health problems, according to an EU report released on Friday, For the fourth year in a row, the biggest amount of cocaine ever confiscated in the EU, Norway, and Turkey was 214.6 tonnes, according … Read more

Turkey: Record inflation reaches two-decade high of 70%

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According to figures released on Thursday, Turkey’s annual inflation rose to 69.97 percent in April, above expectations and reaching a two-decade high, fueled by the Russia-Ukraine conflict and soaring energy and commodity costs following last year’s currency crash. A 500 basis point interest rate easing cycle, which began last September under President Tayyip Erdogan’s pressure … Read more

4,000 uprooted by fighting in Iraq’s Sinjar: Kurdish official

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An official from Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region said Tuesday that fighting between the Iraqi army and Yazidi fighters connected with Turkey’s banned separatist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has uprooted thousands. The Yazidis are a Kurdish-speaking non-Arab, non-Muslim minority who were massacred by Islamic State group jihadists in 2014. Clashes left one Iraqi soldier dead on … Read more

Turkey police detain dozens after May Day clashes

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More than 160 protestors were detained by Turkish police on Sunday as they attempted to stage a May Day rally in defiance of a ban enforced by the governor’s office. AFP images showed riot police clashing with protesters near Istanbul’s Taksim Square, pinning some of them forcefully to the ground before rounding them up in … Read more

Turkey summons German ambassador

Turkey’s Foreign Ministry summoned Germany’s ambassador to Turkey on Friday in a dispute over Turkish businessman and campaigner Osman Kavala’s life sentence, according to the state-run TRT media. Germany summoned Turkey’s ambassador to Berlin on Friday to express its displeasure with the Turkish activist’s sentence. According to anonymous Turkish diplomatic sources, Turkey’s Foreign Ministry told … Read more

Saudi Arabia and Turkey reset relations after Khashoggi killing

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Saudi Arabia’s crown prince and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan have pledged to patch things up, vowing to put an end to a feud between the two regional heavyweights that has erupted since the murder of journalists Jamal Khashoggi. Erdogan met with the kingdom’s de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, on his first … Read more

Deadlock in talks to run Afghan airports: officials

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Officials say talks between the Taliban and a Qatar-Turkey partnership to run Afghanistan’s five airports, including the capital, have come to a halt after the Islamists insisted on using their fighters to protect the facilities. Kabul’s only airport was trashed in August when tens of thousands of people rushed to evacuate on any available flight … Read more

Haven gold shines on Ukraine, inflation: industry data

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Gold demand shone inside the first region as buyers sought shelter from the Ukraine battle and a long time-high inflation, enterprise records confirmed Thursday. Demand jumped with the aid of approximately a 3rd to 1,234 tonnes in the first 3 months of 2022 from a year in advance, the World Gold Council stated in a report. The … Read more

Erdogan tells Putin ‘ready to take initiative’ on Ukraine

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Following his assistance in arranging a Russian-US prisoner swap, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan informed Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday that Ankara was ready to do more to help end the war in Ukraine. Erdogan’s office said that Putin “thanked” the Turkish leader in a phone call for helping put together Wednesday’s exchange of … Read more

France opposes life sentence of Kavala in Turkey

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France criticized a Turkish court’s life sentence for leading civil society leader Osman Kavala on Tuesday, saying his incarceration breached Turkey’s international commitments. “France firmly opposes the life sentence,” said the foreign ministry of France, urging Kavala’s “immediate release” and the dismissal of all allegations against him. He had been jailed for almost four and … Read more

Turkish intellectual Kavala, Erodgan’s unlikely sworn foe

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Osman Kavala, sentenced Monday to life in prison without the possibility of parole, has been thrust from relative obscurity into a symbol of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s intolerance of dissent in the wake of a failed 2016 coup. Bearded, tender-spoken, and gaunt, the 64-yr-old intellectual’s destiny modified the instant he landed in Istanbul from … Read more

Trainer plane crash kills two in Turkey’s Bursa

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A single-engine aircraft crashed into a residential district in Turkey’s northwestern town of Bursa, killing the flight instructor and scholar but inflicting no other accidents, the neighborhood governor stated. Television pics showed orange flames and thick plumes of smoke growing over a residential road within the metropolis of extra than two million people, with large crowds … Read more

Guterres to visit Ankara Monday before trips to Moscow and Kyiv

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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday will visit Turkey, a vital mediator looking for a quit to Russia’s conflict with Ukraine, earlier than heading to Moscow and Kyiv, the UN stated in an assertion. “The Secretary-General will visit Ankara, Turkey, where, on 25 April, he will be received by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan,” the UN … Read more

Turkey blocks Russian flights for Syria

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Turkey has said that it will shut off its airspace to Russian passenger and military aircraft traveling to Syria. According to local media, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said the embargo would be in place for three months. Russia’s large-scale air campaign in favor of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is harmed by the move, which … Read more

Turkey closes airspace to Russian planes flying to Syria: minister

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Turkey has closed its airspace to Russian civilian and army planes flying to Syria, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu became quoted as pronouncing Saturday by nearby media. “We closed the airspace to Russia’s military planes — and even civilian ones — flying to Syria. They had until April, and we asked in March,” Turkish media quoted … Read more

Mosque blast kills 33 in Afghanistan

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A blast ripped through a mosque at some point of Friday prayers in northern Afghanistan, killing 33 people and wounding 43 more, a Taliban spokesman said, only a day after the Islamic State institution claimed separate lethal attacks. Since Taliban opponents seized manage of Afghanistan last year after ousting America-backed authorities, the wide variety of … Read more

Turkey’s jailed rights defender makes final appeal before verdict

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One of Turkey’s most well-known detainees appeared in court on Friday for what could be his final hearing in a case that has come to symbolize Ankara’s tense relations with the West. Osman Kavala, a Paris-born activist and philanthropist, was relatively unknown when he was detained at Istanbul’s airport in October 2017 after returning from … Read more

Turkey’s opposition leader loses power over unpaid bills

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Turkey’s opposition leader stated on Thursday that his power supply had been reduced after he stopped paying energy payments in protest at utility bill hikes that he blamed squarely on the president. Kemal Kilicdaroglu of the secular Republican People’s Party (CHP) has seized on Turkey’s monetary travails to try to mount a serious venture against … Read more

Greece accused of ignoring migrants stranded on border river

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A Greek rights organization on Wednesday accused the government of ignoring dozens of asylum seekers, which include numerous children, stranded on the united states of America’s river border with Turkey. The Greek Council for Refugees (GCR) stated it had asked officers on Monday to rescue 46 people, which include 10 minors, stuck on an islet … Read more

Iraq summons Turkey envoy in protest at Kurdistan offensive

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Iraq on Tuesday summoned Turkey’s ambassador to Baghdad in protest at a new  Turkish offensive concentrated on rebels in the north’s independent Kurdistan region. Turkey on Monday said it has released air and floor offensive toward militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in northern Iraq. Iraq surpassed Turkish ambassador Ali Riza Guney a … Read more

Turkey launches operations against Kurdish militants in northern Iraq

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Turkey began the new week by launching a massive cross-border land and air attack against Kurdish insurgents in northern Iraq. Along with artillery, T129B helicopters, drones, and F-16 jets, Turkey’s Special Forces and special commando groups were sent as part of the mission, which allegedly targeted PKK sites in northern Iraq’s Metina, Zap, and Avashin-Basyan … Read more

Turkey launches new offensive against Kurdish rebels in Iraq

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Turkey on Monday stated it has released a brand new air and floor offensive towards outlawed Kurdish militants in northern Iraq involving special forces and fight drones. Defence Minister Hulusi Akar stated commando devices, unmanned aerial vehicles, and attack helicopters were pounding Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) hideouts in 3 restive regions close to the Turkish … Read more

Turkey renews offensive against Iraqi Kurdish insurgents

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ISTANBUL: Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said on Monday that Turkey has launched a fresh air and ground attack against illegal Kurdish insurgents in northern Iraq. Akar claimed that the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) hideouts in the Metina, Zap, and Avashin-Basyan regions of northern Iraq are being pounded by commando units and special forces backed … Read more

Migrant found dead after shooting at Greece-Turkey border

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According to Greek authorities, a lady migrant was found dead after gunfire erupted as she and others attempted to enter Greece by boat from Turkey. According to authorities, the event occurred late Saturday on the Evros River, some 70 kilometers (40 miles) northeast of Alexandroupolis, Greece. The woman is thought to have been on board … Read more

Tunisian artificer turn rags into friendly rugs

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Najet unravels an antique pair of jeans, raw material for a dressmaker carpet: conventional, eco-friendly crafts are being adapted for new markets thanks to a venture born inside the Tunisian desolate tract. “I learned to weave at a young age, from my mother,” said the 52-year-old from the oasis town of Nefta, 500 kilometers (310 … Read more