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#Turkiye #News - Sad pictures of the burial of one of the 20 #Turkish #military personnel killed in action after the C-130 crash on the #Georgia - Azerbaijan border. Investigation points to the plane's tail detaching in mid-flight.

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November 14, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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#Turkey #News - #Turkish #pilot confirmed dead after plane crashed in #Croatia. The #aircraft, an AT-802 firefighting plane that had been sent to #Zagreb for maintenance, crashed near Senj on the Adriatic coast.
November 14, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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#Turkiye #environment #News - Despite recent #rainfall, #Istanbul is facing a severe #water shortage crisis due to drought in #Turkey. Reserves in the dams supplying the city are below 22%, their lowest level in years.

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November 13, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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#Turkey #News - The new president of Northern #Cyprus, Tufan Erhürman, met with #Turkish President Tayyip #Erdogan in Ankara. Erhürman, who favours negotiations with the #Greek Cypriots, swept the election against Tatar, who wanted to divide the island.

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November 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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#News - #Turkiye has condemned Tuesday's suicide bombing in #Pakistan's capital #Islamabad. A suicide bomber blew himself up in front of a courthouse killing 12 people and injuring 27. The attack has been claimed by the #Pakistani #Taliban.
November 11, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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🇹🇷 We’ve launched Hispanatolia – #English Edition, a new LinkedIn page where we publish all our #news, reports and analysis on #Turkey in English.

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Istanbul, the Golden Horn next to the Bosphorus with Levent's skyscrapers in the background
November 11, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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#News - A ferry with 18 #Russians and 2 #Turks on board covering the route between #Trabzon (#Turkey) and Sochi (#Russia) -reopened after 14 years on 5 November- had to return to #Turkiye on 9 November without being able to disembark after being refused entry for 3 days.
November 10, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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#Turkiye #News - Special #police squads captured after 30 minutes a man who entered the offices of #beINSPORTS #sports channel demanding to see a TV presenter with whom his wife had argued, holding a gun to his own head. The weapon turned out to be a fake.
November 10, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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#Turkiye #News - Heavy #rainfall in the last hours in #Antalya (southern #Turkey) accompanied by storms and even hail, caused serious complications in the circulation of vehicles, turning streets into rivers and causing #floods and power outages.
November 7, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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#Economy #News - 70 of the 90 most traded #minerals worldwide are found in #Turkey and 60 are actively exported, including gold, copper, lead, zinc, chrome and coal. #Turkish annual mineral exports reach $6.5 billion.
November 6, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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#Turkiye #News - More than a hundred arrested in #Turkey in macro #police operation against #weapons and ammunition smuggling. More than 3,000 illegal firearms were seized and 135 suspects arrested in 41 provinces.

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November 5, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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#News #Turkiye #Environment - The lowering of the #water level in Lake Van - the country's largest lake - due to #ClimateCrisis, has exposed a large part of a historic stone road connecting to Çarpanak Island.

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November 5, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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#News #MiddleEast - #Iraqi government and #Turkey signed a historic deal for the joint management of their #water resources through the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Iraq is one of the 5 countries most vulnerable to #ClimateCrisis.

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November 4, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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#Turkey #News - #Erdoğan inaugurated during the weekend the new National Gardens at the former Atatürk Airport. With 1.2 million square metres of green space, the park includes areas to shelter 165,000 people in the event of an #earthquake.

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November 3, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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#Turkiye #News - A 4.9 #earthquake has struck at 15:35 local time the #Turkish province of #Balikesir with epicentre in #Sındırgı, where hundreds of quakes have been occurring since August. The tremor was also felt strongly in #Istanbul.

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November 3, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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#News - #Turkey seeks answers after the collapse of a building that killed 4 members of a family, 2 of them children. Among the possibilities are #construction deficiencies, possible #earthquake damage or even nearby metro works.

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November 1, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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#Turkiye #News - Turkey celebrated yesterday the 102nd anniversary of the founding of the #Turkish Republic in 1923 with celebrations, parades and tributes to the first Turkish president, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, at the Anıtkabir Mausoleum in #Ankara.

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October 30, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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#Turkiye #News - Security cameras recorded the moment a 7-storey building collapsed in the Gebze district of #Kocaeli. An 18 year old girl was rescued alive, but her parents and her 12 and 14 year old siblings lost their lives.

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October 30, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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#News - #Armenian government invites #Turkish President Tayyip #Erdoğan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev to a summit to be held next year in #Yerevan, as part of the process of normalising relations with #Turkiye and Azerbaijan.

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October 28, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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#MiddleEast #News - #Israel carried out at least three new air strikes on #Gaza City shortly after primer minister #Netanyahu gave the order in response to an alleged attack by #Hamas against #Israeli forces in the south of the Strip.

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October 28, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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#Turkey #News #WeatherUpdate - #Turkish authorities issued an alert on Friday for heavy #rain and storms in #Istanbul, accompanied by strong winds, which will continue until Saturday morning. Although the #weather will improve on Sunday, the storms will return on Monday.
October 24, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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#Turkiye #News - Two people in the province of Tunceli, east of #Turkey, had a tremendous scare when a large rock broke loose and rolled down a slope. Fortunately, the rock only grazed a house, left two cars intact, and caused no injuries.
October 23, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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#Turkiye #News - #Turkish nationalist leader Devlet Bahçeli refuses to recognise the result of the #elections in Northern #Cyprus, where the pro-reunification opposition candidate won. Bahçeli calls for the incorporation of Northern Cyprus into #Turkey.

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October 21, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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#Turkiye #News - An #accident in #Kucukcekmece, west of #Istanbul, left one person injured this morning when two metrobuses on the same road collided. The metrobus is an important means of #transport in the city, but #accidents are frequent.

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October 21, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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#Turkey #News - #Turkish President Recep Tayyip #Erdoğan arrived in #Kuwait on Tuesday on an official visit as part of his tour of several #PersianGulf countries, which will also take him to #Qatar and #Oman. During the visit, the two countries signed several agreements.
October 21, 2025 at 5:34 PM