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21.03.2021 / 16:11

Infections continue to climb in Turkey amid relaxed measures

ISTANBUL – Turkey’s weekly regional COVID-19 figures keep increasing as the country keeps relaxed restrictions in place for now.

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Turkish police detain politician staging parliament sit-in

ISTANBUL – Turkish police have detained a prominent pro-Kurdish party politician who was staging a days-long protest in parliament.

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Turkey withdraws from European treaty protecting women

ISTANBUL – Turkey has withdrawn from a landmark European treaty protecting women from violence that it was the first to sign 10 years ago and that bears the name of its largest city.

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5 years on, stalled EU Turkey migrant deal remains a model

BRUSSELS – Five years after it was signed, the widely-criticized deal between the European Union and Turkey aimed at preventing migrants from entering Greece no longer works, but the Europeans insist it has served them well and will do so again. Not only that, they want to do similar deals in northern Africa.

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Multilingual team helps Berlin immigrants fight coronavirus

BERLIN – Three times a week, Aliye Tuerkyilmaz hits the markets and busy shopping streets of Neukoelln to hand out informational flyers on the coronavirus pandemic to residents of the German capital's crowded immigrant neighborhood that's studded with minarets, kebab stores and hookah lounges.

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Pandemic influenced 84% of ultra-wealthy Indians to reassess succession planning: Report

NEW DELHI : The pandemic has influenced 84 per cent of ultra-wealthy Indians, more than the global average, to reassess their attitudes to succession planning, according to a survey.The survey was based on responses from more than 600 private bankers, wealth advisors and family offices representing a combined wealth of more than USD 3.3 trillion.According to the Knight Frank Attitudes Survey 2021, India is among the top four countries where ultra-wealthy Indians have reassessed their attitudes to succession planning in light of COVID-19 pandemic.As many as 90 per cent of ultra-high-net-worth individuals (UHNWIs) in Canada redefined succession planning during the pandemic, while in Turkey the figure stands at 85 per cent and South Africa (80

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Turkey to welcome Brits for summer holidays - even without Covid vaccine

claiming travellers would need a negative test on arrival just two days ago (March 13).Turkish holiday resorts are offering cheap travel insurance packages which offer PCR tests for as little as 30 euros.The nation has already jabbed 10 million people.

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Watching the watchers: who's at the helm of EU's Frontex?

BRUSSELS – The European Union’s border and coast guard agency Frontex, the pride of the 27-nation bloc’s vast effort to keep watch over its frontiers and anyone who might try to enter without authorization, is itself under surveillance — and under fire.

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Call me? US-Turkey reset faces long list of hurdles

ANKARA – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has toned down his anti-Western and anti-US rhetoric in an apparent effort to reset the rocky relationship with his NATO allies, but so far he's been met by silence from U.S. President Joe Biden.

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Turkey detains 13 for 'insulting' Erdogan on Women's Day

ANKARA – Turkish police have detained 13 people who participated in a Women’s Day march for allegedly insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, officials and news reports said Thursday.

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Turkey jails 5 to life over 2016 Russian envoy's killing

ANKARA – A Turkish court on Tuesday sentenced five people to life prison terms over the assassination of Russia’s ambassador to Turkey in 2016, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported.

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Turkey storms into and destroys dentist's office

Generic photo of free-range bronze turkeys. FAIR OAKS, Calif. - No one loves going to the dentist, but this is a bit of an overreaction.A turkey reportedly made a bit of a mess at a dentist’s office in California.

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US presents warring Afghan sides with draft peace agreement

KABUL – Frustrated by a stalled peace process and escalating violence, the U.S. has presented an eight-page draft peace agreement to Afghanistan's warring sides for review.

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Report: Blinken offers plan to bolster Afghan peace process

WASHINGTON – Secretary of State Antony Blinken is proposing a series of steps to help jumpstart Afghanistan’s stalled peace process between the government and Taliban, according to a letter from Blinken to Afghanistan’s president Ashra Ghani published Sunday by Afghanistan’s TOLONews.

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Greek militant on hunger strike suffers kidney failure

ATHENS – A hospital in central Greece said Friday a far-left militant convicted of 11 murders is in critical condition after suffering kidney failure following 56 days of hunger strike.

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Probe into EU border agency leaves some questions unanswered

BRUSSELS – An inquiry into claims that the European Union’s border and coast guard agency was involved in illegally pushing back migrants has cleared Frontex of links to most of the incidents but has been unable to establish what happened in five cases, according to the official report into the allegations.

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Children plunge from 4th floor of burning building

ISTANBUL, Turkey - A mother and her four children faced a terrifying scenario on Thursday in Turkey: The only way to escape a burning building was to go out a window on the fourth floor, according to a report. As smoke engulfed the interior of the building and billowed from the window, the woman lifted her children one-by-one through the opening and dropped them to the street below, video footage captured by a bystander named Gamze Sevil showed. Several neighbors on the street held blankets under the window and caught all the children, according to a report. Their ingenuity and the makeshift rescue net did the job. The brave children were not hurt, this report said.With Storyful.

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Florida man called for jihad, tried to join ISIS, officials say

A Florida man accused of attempting to join ISIS has been indicted on federal terror charges.

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Turkey's president wishes to improve testy relations with US

ISTANBUL – Turkey’s president says mutual interests with the United States outweigh their differences and has called for more cooperation with President Joe Biden's new U.S. administration.

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'Mercenary' donor to be sentenced in campaign finance scheme

A once high-flying political fundraiser who prosecutors say gave illegal campaign contributions to Joe Biden, Lindsey Graham and a host of other U.S. politicians while secretly working for foreign governments is set to be sentenced Thursday.

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Snows storms hit East Med, army called out in Greece

Greece called in the armed forces Wednesday to help repair widespread damage caused by heavy snowfall in Athens, while blizzards continued to cause havoc in neighboring Turkey and with the snow reaching as far as Libya.

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Florida panther struck, killed by vehicle

FORT MYERS, Fla. – An endangered Florida panther has died after being struck by a vehicle.

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Turkey vows to expand anti-PKK operations in northern Iraq

ANKARA – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed on Tuesday to expand cross-border operations against Kurdish militants in northern Iraq, following the killing of 13 Turkish soldiers, police and civilians who had been abducted by Kurdish insurgents.

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High court denies accused Ghosn smugglers' bid to stay in US

BOSTON – The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way Saturday for the extradition of an American father and son wanted by Japan in the escape of former Nissan Motor Co. boss Carlos Ghosn.

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In Athens, Turkey foes plan regional alliance

ATHENS – Foreign ministers and senior officials from several Persian Gulf countries are meeting in Athens on Thursday, as Greece seeks to expand alliances to counter tension with regional rival Turkey.

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Turkey says 2-state solution only option for divided Cyprus

ANKARA – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday ruled out discussing a federal system to reunify Cyprus, insisting that a two-state accord is the only solution for the ethnically-split island.

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Mystery metal monolith vanishes from ancient Turkish site

ANKARA – A metal monolith that mysteriously appeared on a field in southeast Turkey has now disappeared, Turkish media reported Tuesday, four days after it was discovered.

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Greece says Turkey's 2-state model for Cyprus a non-starter

NICOSIA – Greece’s prime minister said on Monday that it’s unlikely “substantial” talks to reunify ethnically split Cyprus could resume if Turkey and Turkish Cypriots insist on pursuing a two-state accord that defies a United Nations and European Union-endorsed framework for federation.

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Turkish man strikes up 37-year friendship with swan

EDIRNE – An unusual friendship between a Turkish man and a swan he rescued has endured for decades.

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Mysterious monolith pops up near Turkish World Heritage site

ISTANBUL – Turkish authorities are investigating the appearance of a mysterious monolith in southeastern Turkey.

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Asylum-seekers stuck in Cyprus' cramped camp want out

NICOSIA – Emmanuel Conteh negotiates the muddy, rutted pathways in shorts and torn plastic flip-flops and says he can’t sleep in his heavy canvas tent at night because of the cold.

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China approves Sinovac Biotech covid-19 vaccine for general public use

BEIJING : Sinovac Biotech said on Saturday that its unit's COVID-19 vaccine has been formally approved for use by the general public by China's medical products regulator.It marks the second COVID-19 vaccine green-lighted for public use in China, after a shot developed by a Beijing institute affiliated to state-owned China National Pharmaceutical Group (Sinopharm) was approved in December.Prior to the approvals, both vaccines have already been used in China's vaccination program mainly targeting key groups deemed to be at higher risk of exposure to the virus.Indonesia, Turkey, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Uruguay, and Laos have granted emergency authorizations for the CoronaVac vaccine developed by Sinovac Life Sciences, Sinovac said in a news

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Turkish president takes action at protest-rocked university

ISTANBUL – Turkey’s president has ordered the establishment of two new departments in the country’s most prestigious university, which has been rocked by weeks of protests.

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Turkey Uighurs fear sellout to China in exchange for vaccine

BEIJING – Abdullah Metseydi, a Uighur in Turkey, was readying for bed last month when he heard commotion, then pounding on the door. “Police! Open the door!”

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Turkey's Erdogan describes student protesters as terrorists

ANKARA – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has denounced student protesters as “terrorists" and vowed to crackdown on demonstrations opposing the appointment of a government loyalist to head Istanbul’s most prestigious university.

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Florida man charged with trying to join ISIS

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – A former Florida resident has been returned to the United States after traveling to Turkey and attempting to join the Islamic State group.

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Erdogan says Turkey needs new constitution

ANKARA – In an unexpected comment Monday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke of the need to draft a new and “civilian” constitution for Turkey.

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Holocaust survivor, 96, has coronavirus jab in same arm as her Auschwitz tattoo

In a vaccination centre in suburban England, 96-year-old Evelyn Lipmann is rolling up her sleeve.

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Florida panther struck and killed by vehicle

FORT MYERS, Fla. – An endangered Florida panther has died after being struck by a vehicle.

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Turkey passes 25,000 COVID-19-related deaths

ANKARA – Turkey on Sunday passed 25,000 COVID-19-related deaths since the start of the outbreak in March, the health ministry said.A toll of 140 new fatalities saw the total figure rise to 25,073.

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Turkey's Erdogan says extra 10M doses of Chinese vaccine due

ANKARA – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday that a further 10 million doses of the Chinese CoronaVac vaccine could arrive in Turkey by this weekend.Speaking after prayers in Istanbul, Erdogan said delivery of a second batch of the vaccine had been approved by China.Turkey has so far received 3 million doses and has vaccinated nearly 2 million people, prioritizing health workers and the elderly, since its program started a week ago.

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Turkish pilots, official face 12 years jail for Ghosn flight

ISTANBUL – Turkish prosecutors on Wednesday sought the maximum possible 12 years in prison each for a Turkish private airline official and two pilots accused of smuggling the former Nissan Motor Co. chairman out of Japan, Turkey’s state news agency reported.In the third hearing in the trial of seven people over Carlos Ghosn’s dramatic escape in 2019, prosecutors also requested that the court acquits two other pilots of the charge of “illegally smuggling a migrant,” Anadolu Agency said.

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Turkey slaps advertising ban on Twitter, Pinterest

ANKARA – Turkey on Tuesday slapped advertising bans on Twitter, Periscope and Pinterest over their non-compliance with a controversial new law that requires social media platforms to appoint legal representatives in the country.The law — which human rights and media freedom groups say amounts to censorship — forces social media companies to maintain representatives in Turkey to deal with complaints about content on their platforms.

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'Rooting hard for you': Will departure notes end with Trump?

WASHINGTON – Presidential traditions are usually known for their solemnity and carry the weight of future historical significance. This one began with cartoon turkeys and a reference to lunch.As he was preparing to leave the White House in January 1989, President Ronald Reagan wanted to leave a note for his successor, George H.W.

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Turkish leader eyes favorably Greek PM meet amid tensions

ISTANBUL – Turkey’s president indicated on Friday that he would be open to easing tensions with neighboring Greece by floating the possibility of a face-to-face meeting with the Greek prime minister following months of saber-rattling over energy resources in the Eastern Mediterranean.Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told reporters after prayers in Istanbul that he would “positively” consider a meeting that he said Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis had requested.Erdogan said the two countries’ foreign ministers had met and bilateral talks were ongoing.

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Health workers first in line as Turkey launches Sinovac vaccine rollout

Turkey began administering COVID-19 shots developed by China's Sinovac to health workers on Thursday, as it rolls out a nationwide vaccination programme against the disease that has killed more than 23,000 people in the country.Turkey has reported more than 2.3 million infections since March and still reports around 10,000 new cases and 170 deaths each day after a month of weekend lockdowns and nightly curfews.At a research hospital in Istanbul, 30 clinics were set up to administer the vaccine.

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Turkey approves China-based Sinovac vaccine's emergency use

ANKARA – Turkish authorities have given the go-ahead for the emergency use of the COVID-19 vaccine produced by China’s Sinovac Biotch Ltd., paving the way for the rollout for Turkey’s vaccination program starting with health care workers and other high-risk groups.The health regulatory authority, the Turkish Medicines and Medical Devices Agency, said Wednesday it had approved the vaccine’s emergency use following examinations that lasted for 14 days.Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said he and members of Turkey’s scientific advisory council would receive the first shots later Wednesday.

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First launch of 2021: SpaceX Falcon 9 launching with Turkish satellite from Cape Canaveral

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Following a very busy year, SpaceX plans to kick off 2021 with the first launch as soon as Thursday from Cape Canaveral, sending up a Turkish communications satellite.The Space Coast hosted more than 30 rocket launches last year and 2021 promises to top that as SpaceX continues to build its Starlink satellite constellation to provide global internet, launching a new batch of spacecraft with increasing frequency.[TRENDING: Seniors sleep in cars waiting for vaccine | How to get vaccine in Fla. | ‘Amen and awoman:’ Backlash over prayer]First up, a Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to launch a satellite called Turksat-5A Thursday evening from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Space Launch Complex 40 between 8:28 p.m.

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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0