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BBC News provides television journalism to BBC network bulletins (on BBC One and BBC Two) and programmes as well as the BBC News Channel available around the world and in the United Kingdom. BBC News runs BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC World Service as part of its rolling news coverage, journalists and presenters also contribute to podcasts produced ...
2005 - Present. Known for. BBC Correspondent in Greece, Turkey and Italy. Mark Lowen is a British journalist. He is the BBC News Southern Europe correspondent, based in Rome. He was previously based in Turkey, Greece and Serbia. He moved to Rome in 2019 and is often deployed elsewhere on major stories. He has reported for the BBC from over 40 ...
The mass media in Turkey includes a wide variety of domestic and foreign periodicals expressing disparate views, and domestic newspapers are extremely competitive. [ 1] However, media ownership is concentrated in the hands of a few large private media groups which are typically part of wider conglomerates controlled by wealthy individuals ...
Turkey: Empire of Erdogan. Turkey: Empire of Erdogan is a 2023 two-part documentary series aired by BBC Two before the 2023 Turkish general election. [1] It explores the 20-year political career of President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and the impact on Turkey. [2] Events covered include the Gezi Park protests and the Susurluk car crash. [3]
Ararat rebellion (1927–1930) The Republic of Ararat ( Turkish: Ağrı) was a self-proclaimed Kurdish state. It was located in the east of modern Turkey, being centered on Ağrı Province. The Republic of Ararat was declared independent in 1927, during a wave of rebellion among Kurds in south-eastern Turkey.
In Turkey, secularism or laicism (see laïcité) was first introduced with the 1928 amendment of the Constitution of 1924, which removed the provision declaring that the "Religion of the State is Islam", and with the later reforms of Turkey's first president Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, which set the administrative and political requirements to create a modern, democratic, secular state, aligned ...
On 24 November 2015, a Turkish Air Force F-16 fighter jet shot down a Russian Sukhoi Su-24M attack aircraft near the Syria–Turkey border. [1] [2] According to Turkey, the aircraft was fired upon while in Turkish airspace because it violated the border up to a depth of 2.19 kilometres (1.36 miles) for about 17 seconds after being warned to change its heading ten times over a period of five ...
2016 Turkish coup attempt. Image showing a coup attempt plot in Turkey's borders. On 15 July 2016, a faction within the Turkish Armed Forces, organized as the Peace at Home Council, [ 33] attempted a coup d'état against state institutions, including the government and president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. [ 34] They attempted to seize control of ...