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#Turkiye #News - 7 people were killed and 11 others injured in a horrific #accident in the southeastern #Turkish province of #Osmaniye, when a bus full of #passengers collided head-on with a truck, leaving it wrecked.

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December 7, 2025 at 10:08 PM
#Turkiye #News - From 1 January #Georgia will require #Turkish citizens wishing to enter the country to have valid travel and #health insurance, even for one-day visits. The move comes in response to an increase in #accidents and health treatment of uninsured #Turks.
December 4, 2025 at 10:31 PM
#Turkiye #News - #Turkish Minister of #PublicHealth announced that thousands of automatic defibrillators will be installed in public places across the country - including airports, shopping centres and public transport hubs - to intervene in the event of cardiac arrest.
December 3, 2025 at 10:56 PM
#News - #Turkish #technology and #defence company ASELSAN launched its LUNA-1 IoT #satellite into orbit; it was launched by a SpaceX Falcon-9 rocket from #California, and is part of Turkey's plans to create its own high-speed internet communications network.
December 1, 2025 at 11:17 PM
#Environment #News - Alarm in #Turkey over drought. Tahtalı dam, the largest #water reservoir in #Izmir - the 3rd largest city in #Turkiye - is at only 1.12% of its capacity. A year ago the situation was already serious and was at 11.74%.

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November 26, 2025 at 10:48 PM
#MiddleEast #News - #Drone footage of devastation in #Gaza's Jabalia and Tel al-Hawa neighbourhoods, as the fragile truce between #Israel and #Hamas hangs in the balance amid mutual accusations of violating the #GazaCeasefire agreement.

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November 26, 2025 at 10:24 PM
#Turkey #News - South Korean President Lee Jae Myung was received by #Turkish President #Erdoğan during an official visit. Lee, who said that "#Turkiye and #SouthKorea are brotherly nations bound by blood", signed 6 cooperation agreements in Ankara, including on #nuclear energy.
November 24, 2025 at 8:14 PM
#Turkey #News - #Footage from a taxi camera shows the #family staying in an #Istanbul hotel going to a medical centre with symptoms of poisoning. All four, including the two children aged 3 and 6, would die within days.

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November 20, 2025 at 10:17 PM
#Turkiye #News - #Turkish nationalist leader Devlet Bahçeli said he is ready to meet PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan in #prison in the face of parliament's indecision on the issue: "If no one is willing, I will not shy away from sitting face to face with him"

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November 19, 2025 at 6:51 PM
#Turkiye #News - #Turkish President Tayyip #Erdoğan received at the presidential palace in Ankara the President of #Ukraine Volodymyr #Zelenskyy, who seeks to resume peace talks with #Russia in #Istanbul and end the war.

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November 19, 2025 at 4:55 PM
#Turkiye #News - #Greek Cypriot and #Turkish Cypriot leaders Nikos Christodoulides and Tufan Erhürman will hold their first face-to-face meeting on 20 November to discuss the resumption of negotiations on the future of #Cyprus.

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November 17, 2025 at 10:17 PM
#Turkiye #News - Sad pictures of the burial of one of the 20 #Turkish #military personnel killed in action after the C-130 crash on the #Georgia - Azerbaijan border. Investigation points to the plane's tail detaching in mid-flight.

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November 14, 2025 at 9:51 PM
#Turkey #News - #Turkish #pilot confirmed dead after plane crashed in #Croatia. The #aircraft, an AT-802 firefighting plane that had been sent to #Zagreb for maintenance, crashed near Senj on the Adriatic coast.
November 14, 2025 at 3:15 PM
#Turkiye #environment #News - Despite recent #rainfall, #Istanbul is facing a severe #water shortage crisis due to drought in #Turkey. Reserves in the dams supplying the city are below 22%, their lowest level in years.

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November 13, 2025 at 10:14 PM
#Turkey #News - The new president of Northern #Cyprus, Tufan Erhürman, met with #Turkish President Tayyip #Erdogan in Ankara. Erhürman, who favours negotiations with the #Greek Cypriots, swept the election against Tatar, who wanted to divide the island.

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November 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM
#News - #Turkiye has condemned Tuesday's suicide bombing in #Pakistan's capital #Islamabad. A suicide bomber blew himself up in front of a courthouse killing 12 people and injuring 27. The attack has been claimed by the #Pakistani #Taliban.
November 11, 2025 at 9:38 PM
🇹🇷 We’ve launched Hispanatolia – #English Edition, a new LinkedIn page where we publish all our #news, reports and analysis on #Turkey in English.

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#WorldNews
November 11, 2025 at 2:12 AM
#News - A ferry with 18 #Russians and 2 #Turks on board covering the route between #Trabzon (#Turkey) and Sochi (#Russia) -reopened after 14 years on 5 November- had to return to #Turkiye on 9 November without being able to disembark after being refused entry for 3 days.
November 10, 2025 at 11:32 PM
#Turkiye #News - Special #police squads captured after 30 minutes a man who entered the offices of #beINSPORTS #sports channel demanding to see a TV presenter with whom his wife had argued, holding a gun to his own head. The weapon turned out to be a fake.
November 10, 2025 at 10:47 PM
#Turkiye #News - Heavy #rainfall in the last hours in #Antalya (southern #Turkey) accompanied by storms and even hail, caused serious complications in the circulation of vehicles, turning streets into rivers and causing #floods and power outages.
November 7, 2025 at 11:16 PM
#Economy #News - 70 of the 90 most traded #minerals worldwide are found in #Turkey and 60 are actively exported, including gold, copper, lead, zinc, chrome and coal. #Turkish annual mineral exports reach $6.5 billion.
November 6, 2025 at 10:54 PM
#Turkiye #News - More than a hundred arrested in #Turkey in macro #police operation against #weapons and ammunition smuggling. More than 3,000 illegal firearms were seized and 135 suspects arrested in 41 provinces.

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November 5, 2025 at 11:21 PM
#News #Turkiye #Environment - The lowering of the #water level in Lake Van - the country's largest lake - due to #ClimateCrisis, has exposed a large part of a historic stone road connecting to Çarpanak Island.

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November 5, 2025 at 9:23 PM
#News #MiddleEast - #Iraqi government and #Turkey signed a historic deal for the joint management of their #water resources through the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Iraq is one of the 5 countries most vulnerable to #ClimateCrisis.

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November 4, 2025 at 7:54 PM
#Turkey #News - #Erdoğan inaugurated during the weekend the new National Gardens at the former Atatürk Airport. With 1.2 million square metres of green space, the park includes areas to shelter 165,000 people in the event of an #earthquake.

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November 3, 2025 at 9:27 PM