The Secretary General of the Central Committee of AKEL, Stefanos Stefanou, at the head of a large AKEL delegation, visited today the cemetery in occupied Famagusta where most of the Turkish Cypriot victims of the deadly earthquake in Turkey were laid to rest. St. Stefanou laid flowers at the graves, talked with relatives of the […]
ANTAKYA, Turkey (Reuters) – Trucks, emergency vehicles and excavators lined the desolate streets of Turkey’s Antakya Tuesday night, after the third major earthquake in two weeks accelerated an exodus from the once-lively city.
Michael Bauer, a spokesman for the Austrian ministry of defence, said the country’s forces were operating in “an increasingly difficult security situation”, and that they would continue their operations once the environment becomes safe.
The Cyprus rescue team which was on standby to get the ‘go-ahead’ to travel to Turkey will not be going to the country, the Civil Defence Spokesperson Panagiotis Liasides told the Cyprus News Agency on Thursday afternoon.
Cyprus Airways, the flag carrier airline of Cyprus, on Wednesday, announced that it is making available its aircraft and capacity for governments, charities and organisations that need transportation of goods, medicines and rescue teams or equipment.
As we mentioned earlier, a second earthquake, which had a magnitude of 7.5, has struck in the Elbistan district of Turkey’s Kahramanmaras province.
ISTANBUL/STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar said on Saturday that a planned visit next week by his Swedish counterpart to Ankara has been cancelled after Swedish authorities granted permission for protests in Stockholm.
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday he may meet Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as part of peace efforts after the highest-level talks in public between Ankara and the Damascus government since the Syrian war began in 2011.
Authorities in Turkey announced early Monday morning that they have arrested the woman suspected of carrying out the suicide bombing on Istanbul’s busy Istiklal Avenue in Turkey.
Turkey on Tuesday (9 August) sent its newest drill ship on the first eastern Mediterranean energy exploration mission in nearly two years.
