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Last Updated On: May 23 2021 01:52 Gmt+3 Infamous Turkish mafia leader Sedat Peker, in a video released on Sunday morning local time, accused the son of a former prime minister of sitting on top of a cocaine trafficking ring from Venezuela to Turkey. Ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) heavyweight and former prime minister Binali Yıldırım’s son Erkan Yıldırım visited Venezuela to establish the new route in January and February this year, Peker alleged. According to the mobster, ...

AFP A drawing competition launched by the Chinese Embassy in Turkey to promote interest in China among students appears to have backfired after several submissions depicting state-backed policies of repression in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) were posted online. The “China in my Dreams” contest—which Turkey’s International Science and Culture Foundation, the country’s Ministry of National Education, and the Chinese Embassy launched in 2016—rewards Turkis...

SHARE Eid Al Fitr, known as the “sugar feast” in Turkey, is usually a boom time for Istanbul’s Altan Sekerli, which sells its own traditional Ottoman-style sweets flavoured with rose water, cinnamon and melon. But this year, a severe snap Covid-19 lockdown is threatening the survival of the city’s decades-old independent businesses. Established in 1865, the family-run shop has weathered the fall of an empire, the establishment of a republic and the rise and fall of sultans and elected l...

Seren Selvin Korkmaz By pledging to draft a civilian constitution and further imagining Turkey’s future in the European Union, the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and his cabinet have recently sent out ‘pseudo-reform’ signals to the rest of the world. At the same time, the government has bluntly intensified its repression at home. Indeed, just before the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, and the European Council president, Charles Michel, visited Ankara in Mar...

UpdatedTue, Apr 20, 2021 at 7:52 pm CT Reply The Lake County Clerks Office announced all ballots have been counted from the April 6 election, with final results set to be certified Thursday. (Illustration via village of Mettawa; Jonah Meadows/Patch) METTAWA, IL — Despite not having his name on the ballot in this months municipal election, incumbent Mettawa Village President Casey Urlacher secured enough write-in votes to defeat the only person whose name did appear on the ballot — former Vi...

Damascus: There are two initiatives currently on the table to move the Lebanese cabinet formation talks forward. One is the brainchild of Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri and second is an expansion on an initiative proposed last September by French President Emanuel Macron. So what is the problem? It’s been six months now since Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri was asked to form a government, and yet, he has repeatedly failed to come up with something acceptable to President Michel Aoun and ...

The General Union of Egyptians Abroad will lobby the Biden administration on President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's achievements.

Unjust: Egypts property registration plans face popular backlash Millions of homeowners in Egypt could be forced to pay three percent of their propertys market value or lose access to water and electricity Up to 95 percent of properties in Egypt are unregistered, according to the minister of justice (Reuters/file photo) By Published date: 1 March 2021 14:48 UTC | Last update: 3 weeks 4 days ago "Angels dont enter homes unregistered in th...

Supporters of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny attend a rally in Vladivostok, Russia October 7, 2017. | (Photo: REUTERS/Yuri Maltsev) Russian opposition leader, lawyer and anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny paraphrased Jesus’ Sermon the Mount and made pop culture references during his final argument before a Moscow City Court rejected the appeal of his prison sentence relating to an alleged probation violation on Saturday.  Navalny, who was arrested on Jan. 17 upon returning to ...

Turkish Former Economy Czar Breaks Silence to Berate Critics Bloomberg 22/02/2021 © AFP via Getty Images Berat Albayrak (Bloomberg) -- Turkey’s former finance minister broke months of silence that followed his abrupt resignation by threatening legal action against critics who say his policies cost the nation more than $100 billion in reserves. “There is no possibility of any foreign currency or lira resources of the central bank disappearing, evaporating or being transferred to a diffe...