Tag: Turkey
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TNG Deal Breakers: Earthquakes: Today’s Turkey, Syria and elsewhere, but it cannot happen in Nigeria?
Every day we read about the phenomenal human lives wasted since the massively destructive earthquake hit Turkey and Syria, a country that has recorded large-scale calamities from wars it waged on itself. The death toll was 34,000 at the beginning of this week and hopes are gradually dimming on possibilities of digging out more survivors.…
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10-year-old Turkish boy rescued after 100 hours under rubble
Rescuers in southern Turkey rescued a 10-year-old boy from a collapsed house, four days after an earthquake caused devastation across large parts of the country’s border with Syria.
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Turkey Earthquake: Christian Atsu is still missing – Club doctor, Gurbey Kahveci
Over 12,000 people have been confirmed killed in a devastating earthquake that happened across Turkey and Syria. Recall that the club’s vice-president, Mustafa Ozat had claimed that the player had been pulled from the wreckage. The Ghana FA also came out with a claim that the former Newcastle and Chelsea winger had been found.
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Woman pulled out of rubbles alive after 52 hours in Turkey
A woman was pulled out alive after being trapped in the rubble of a building that collapsed 52 hours earlier due to a devastating earthquake in southeast Turkey.
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No Nigerian casualty in Turkey quake – Envoy
Nigeria’s Ambassador to the Republic of Turkey, Ismail Yusuf has disclosed no Nigerian is among the casualties of the earthquake that hit some cities in Turkey.
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President Buhari condemns despicable bomb attack in Turkey
President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned as “despicable and cowardly,” the terrorist bomb attack that claimed several lives and injured tens of others in an explosion in central Istanbul, Türkiye. In a reaction to the incident, via a statement by his media aide, Malam Garba Shehu, on Sunday, Buhari expressed the shock and sadness of the…
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Briturkey, Britaly and fear of Britainistan – By Azu Ishiekwene
In a widely shared story last week, The Economist likened the political carnage in Britain to the situation in Italy in the 1940s. Italy was a major theatre of the First World War at the end of which the country was in ruins.
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Erdogan, Putin scheduled to meet later this week
Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will hold a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin later this week in the Kazakh capital of Astana, a Turkish presidential source said on Tuesday. The meeting between the two leaders is scheduled for Thursday, on the sidelines of an Asian security summit, the source said.
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Erdoğan renews threat to block Sweden from joining NATO
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan again threatened to block Sweden from joining NATO. “As long as the terrorist organisations are demonstrating on the streets of Sweden, and as long as the terrorists are inside the Swedish parliament, there is not going to be a positive approach from Turkey towards Sweden,”Erdoğan said.
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Mother seeks NiDCOM’s help as child goes missing in Northern Cyprus
The Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM) says a 28-year-old Nigerian student has been reported missing in Northern Cyprus since Aug. 2. The commission said this in a statement issued in Abuja by its Head of Media, Public Relations and Protocol, Mr Abdur-Rahman Balogun.