News archive of July 2020

More measures mulled amid rise in cases

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis convened an emergency teleconference with health authorities Thursday to review all the recent data on the Covid-19 pandemic, amid a steady rise in cases in the country. 

Health authorities Thursday confirmed 65 new cases - a fifth consecutive day of increase - which is similar to levels leading up to the lockdown earlier in the year. 

Turkey, Greece to discuss thorny issues in Ankara: Defense minister

Turkish and Greek officials will meet in the capital Ankara in the coming days to address issues that have led to rising
tensions, Turkey's defense minister said on July 30. 

"We try to solve problems with these [kinds of] meetings. Our work continues in this direction," Hulusi Akar said after prayers for a Muslim holiday in Selimiye Mosque in Edirne, northwestern Turkey.

Turkey’s President Has Hurt Muslim Interests Over Hagia Sophia

In 1453, the Ottoman Turks conquered the Byzantine capital, however, and the great church became a mosque. In 1934, the secularist reformer of modern Turkey, Kemal Atatürk, converted it into a museum.

Massacre Relived: Book Sheds New Light on a Kosovo Atrocity

Shehu has died in February this year

Qemail Krasniqi and Agron Limani, authors. Photo: BIRN

It retells the stories of the people who lost their loved ones in the massacre carried out in the village of Krusha e Vogël/Mala Krusha, in Prizren municipality, one of the most notorious crimes Serbian forces committed in the war in Kosovo of the late-1990s.

US envoy to Turkey visits Halki seminary

US Ambassador to Turkey, David Satterfield, on Thursday visited on Thursday the Chapel of the Holy Trinity at Halki, where the Theological School is located. 

The Ambassador was accompanied by Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomeos and were welcomed by Bishop of Arabissos, Cassianos.

Animals in Kocaeli zoo await visitors during Eid al-Adha

Faruk Yalçın Zoo in the Darıca district of the northwestern province of Kocaeli is excited to welcome its visitors again during the Eid al-Adha, Feast of Sacrifice, amid strict COVID-19 measures. 

The zoo, which is frequented by families and their children, is also home to endangered species. 

Electronics, ICT key sectors to boost US trade

Turkey's business community has determined electronics and information and communication technologies (ICT) as the two potential sectors Turkey can fill the gap expected to open in U.S.-China trade.

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