LONDON (AA) – Haim Sofer, an Orthodox Jewish rabbi in the UK, cried while voting for photographs from Gaza for Anadolu Agency’s Photos of the Year competition. Sofer, a member of the anti-Zionist Neturei Karta movement, voted for Ashraf Amra’s photograph titled ‘The Cry Out’, in which a woman mourns during a funeral cer...
Istanbul, Turkiye – AFP Turkiye has detained 33 people suspected of spying for Israel’s Mossad intelligence service, Turkish media reported, without specifying the nationalities of those detained. The suspects were rounded up in raids across eight provinces around Istanbul, private and state-run news agencies reported, adding that ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said his US counterpart Joe Biden told him he would have the US Congress approval for F-16 sales after the Turkish parliament ratified Sweden’s NATO bid. “If we operate this simultaneously, we will have the opportunity to pass this through parliament much more easily,” Erdo...
BIRMINGHAM, England (AA) – Newly appointed British Foreign Secretary David Cameron has threatened to withdraw Foreign Office support for Scottish ministers after Scotland’s First Minister Humza Yousaf met the Turkish president without the presence of UK officials. In a letter to the Scottish National Party (SNP) government, Cameron said ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – A Turkish court has issued an arrest warrant for the son of Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud in connection with a fatal motorcycle accident in Istanbul. The arrest warrant for the Somali president’s son was issued, alleging his involvement in the incident that resulted in the death of motorcycle rider Yunus Emre [&h...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Even discussing the claim that Israel would establish a buffer zone in Gaza is disrespectful to the Palestinians, the Turkish president has said. “Gaza belongs to the Palestinians. We do not recognize any decision-maker that ignores their decisions,” Recep Tayyip Erdogan told journalists on his return flight from a two-day visi...
Ankara, Turkey — AFP Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has branded hardline Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “the butcher of Gaza” and accused him of spawning anti-Semitism across the world. Erdogan has lashed out repeatedly at Israel for the scale of death and destruction caused by its war on Gaza launched on O...
BAGHDAD (AA) – Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani expressed readiness Wednesday to resume oil exports to Türkiye. A meeting in Baghdad between Sudani and Türkiye’s Energy and Natural Resources Minister Alparslan Bayraktar discussed strengthening energy relations, according to a statement from the Iraqi Prime Minister̵...
Ankara, Turkey – AFP More than two dozen Palestinian cancer patients, who had crossed from Gaza into Egypt, have arrived in Turkiye for treatment. Turkiye has sent a ship loaded with material for field hospitals, ambulances and generators to Egypt to treat civilians who have been able to flee Israel’s military assault on the besieg...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Türkiye will take steps to ensure that political and military leaders who massacred people in Gaza face trial in the international courts, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said. Calling Israel a “terrorist state,” the Turkish leader accused Tel Aviv of implementing a strategy of destroying all of Gaza along with its residents...
