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Erdogan in surprise visit to Hagia Sofia after its reconversion into mosque
Jul 20, 2020 03:17Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan pays a flying visit to Hagia Sofia in Istanbul, the country’s most outstanding landmark and a UNESCO World Heritage site, after ordering revocation of the edifice’s nearly century-long status as a museum and its reconversion into a mosque.
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Turkish migrant boat sinking: Death toll rises to 50
Jul 19, 2020 03:09The death toll from a migrant boat disaster in Lake Van in eastern Turkey has risen to 50, the governor's office said on Saturday, after three weeks of search operations.
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Turkey’s Erdogan says Egypt involved in ‘illegal’ action in Libya
Jul 17, 2020 10:59Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Egypt is taking “illegal” action in Libya by supporting the rebels there.
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Reconnaissance plane crashes in eastern Turkey, 7 killed
Jul 16, 2020 02:46A Turkish reconnaissance aircraft has crashed in a mountain in eastern Turkey for unknown reasons, killing seven people.
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Turkish military forces deployed over dozen kilometers into northern Iraq: Top lawmaker
Jul 15, 2020 01:08The head of the security and defense committee at the Iraqi parliament has condemned Ankara’s ongoing cross-border operation in the country’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region against hideouts of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militant group, stating that Turkish forces are now deployed more than a dozen kilometers into the area.
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Roadside bomb hits Russian-Turkish patrol in Syria, injuries reported
Jul 14, 2020 08:38Several Turkish and Russian soldiers have been wounded after a roadside bomb planted by terrorists in Syria went off near a joint Moscow-Ankara patrol in the West Asian country’s northwestern province of Idlib.
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Turkey asks over 100 countries to extradite Gulen network members
Jul 14, 2020 01:09The Turkish Justice Ministry has asked 105 countries, including the US and Germany, to extradite more than 800 people affiliated with a movement led by US-based opposition cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom the Ankara government accuses of having masterminded the July 2016 coup attempt against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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Russia says Turkey’s decision on Hagia Sophia’s status ‘internal affair’
Jul 13, 2020 09:55Russia says Turkey’s decision to turn the UNESCO World Heritage site Hagia Sophia in Istanbul into a mosque is an “internal affair” of the Anatolian country.
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MBS prime suspect in Khashoggi murder case: UN official
Jul 12, 2020 07:11A senior UN official says Saudi Arabia’s heir apparent Mohamed bin Salman (MBS) is a prime suspect in the murder of well-known Saudi journalist and dissident Jamal Khashoggi at the kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul back in October 2018.
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Turkey’s Erdogan says museum Hagia Sophia to change back to mosque
Jul 11, 2020 00:59Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced that the UNESCO World Heritage site Hagia Sophia would be handed over to Turkey's religious affairs directorate and reopened for Muslim worshiping.