Person suspected of starting forest fires in Turkey arrested
World | August 01, 2021 7:00 ISTWildfires continued to cause devastation in Turkey as the President declared the affected regions "disaster areas."
Wildfires continued to cause devastation in Turkey as the President declared the affected regions "disaster areas."
The govt aims to administer at least the first doses of vaccine to 70 per cent of its population before mid-July, Koca said at a PC on Wednesday after a meeting of the coronavirus scientific board.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that his government plans to complete its nationwide vaccination program against the coronavirus pandemic in May or June.
Turkish authorities are investigating the appearance of a mysterious monolith in southeastern Turkey.
The United States has imposed sanctions on NATO on Turkey for its purchase of Russia’s S-400 missile defence system, the United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Monday.
Even as hopes of reaching survivors began to fade, rescuers in the Turkish city of Izmir pulled a young girl out alive from the rubble of a collapsed apartment building on Tuesday, four days after a strong earthquake hit Turkey and Greece.
Rescue workers in Turkey extricated a man from a collapsed building, some 34 hours after a strong earthquake in the Aegean Sea struck Turkey and Greece, killing at least 75 people and injuring close to 1,000.
When firefighter Muammer Celik reached a 3-year-old girl trapped for three days under the rubble of a deadly earthquake in a Turkish coastal city, his heart sank. She was lying motionless, covered in dust, and he asked a colleague for a body bag.
According to the US Geological Survey, the major earthquake hit 14 kilometres (nine miles) off the Greek town of Karlovasi on Samos.
A Tsunami like devastation has been witnessed in Turkey's Izmir after an Earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 shook Greek island of Samos and Turkey's Aegean coast, US Geological Survey said on Friday.
Turkish media showed wreckage of a multiple-story building, with people climbing it to start rescue efforts. Smoke rose from several spots.
A strong earthquake in the Aegean Sea has shaken Turkey and Greece. Several buildings were wrecked in Turkey’s western Izmir province, according to officials, but there was no immediate information on casualties.
Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, recently, threatened that if the OIC headed by Saudi Arabia did not convene a foreign ministers' meeting on Kashmir, Prime Minister Imran Khan would hold it on his own with his allies among the Islamic nations.
Aamir Khan is currently in Turkey for the shooting of his forthcoming project Laal Singh Chaddha, which also stars Kareena Kapoor Khan in the lead.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that he is considering breaking off all diplomatic ties with the UAE after the Gulf nation announced a landmark deal establishing formal relations with Israel.
Turkey on Monday partially resumes domestic flight operations after a two-month closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic. National flag carrier Turkish Airlines and the Pegasus Airlines currently only resumed flights from Istanbul to a few major cities, reports Xinhua news agency.
Turkey on Sunday reported 1,610 new cases of novel coronavirus, with the death toll exceeding 4,000, The total number of COVID-19 cases in the country reached 148,067, and a total of 4,096 deaths related to the disease were recorded, the Turkish health minister said.
Coronavirus in Turkey: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan earlier said the government would continue to impose curfews on 31 provinces on weekends until the end of May. Meanwhile, the Interior Ministry announced on Sunday that it extended the travel restrictions for 31 provinces until Monday midnight.
Turkey, the second hardest-hit country in the Middle East, reported 2,357 new cases of COVID-19 infection, as the total number surged to 110,130. Meanwhile, 99 more people died in Turkey from the highly infectious disease, raising the death toll to 2,805.
Turkey is set to replace Iran as the top country in the region with the most confirmed coronavirus cases as it has been witnessing daily fast growth in the new infections since it reported the first case on March 11.
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