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Turkey adopted its official name, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, known in English as the Republic of Turkey or more commonly known as Turkey, upon the declaration of the republic on 29 October 1923. In 2021, however, via the UN, Turkey changed its spelling to Türkiye. At a press briefing on 5 January 2023, a US State Department spokesperson announced that:
June 2: The United Nations agrees to officially change the English name of the country from Turkey to Türkiye. [23] June 14: Türksat 5B was put into service. [24] June 20: The second meeting of the delegations of Finland, Sweden and Turkey was held in Brussels, Belgium. [25] June 21: A forest fire started around Marmaris's Bördübet village ...
In Gaziantep Province, a bus hit the scene of a road crash, crashing into cars and flipping over onto its side. [3] [unreliable source] 16 people were killed and 21 were injured. [2] The incident occurred on the highway between Gaziantep and Nizip. [4] Those killed included three firefighters, two paramedics and two journalists. [5]
Turkish police said Monday they have detained a Syrian woman with suspected links to Kurdish militants and that she confessed to planting a bomb that exploded on a bustling pedestrian avenue in ...
On 13 November 2022, an explosion took place on İstiklal Avenue in Istanbul's Beyoğlu district at 4:20 PM local time. According to the Governor of Istanbul, Ali Yerlikaya, the bombing left at least six people dead and 81 injured. A woman who left a bag on the avenue is the main suspect in the attack.
Turkey still looks to its NATO membership for "prestige, gravitas and panache," said Sinan Ciddi, a Turkey specialist at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies and a professor at the U.S ...
On the 17 June 2021, Deniz Poyraz, a 38-year-old member of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) was killed in the provincial seat of the party in Konak, Izmir [1] [2] which was under police surveillance. [3] [4] [5] In December 2022, the murderer was sentenced to an aggravated life imprisonment. [6]
Sep. 9—ROCHESTER — The family of a man killed in a crash last year is wondering why the man accused in his death has been allowed to go on vacation while he awaits trial. Ricky Hutton died ...