News archive of March 2024

US senators declined on Thursday to block the sale of F-16s to Turkey, despite voicing deep disdain for Turkey's conduct as an ally. They were upholding an unofficial bargain that Turks would get the fighter jets if they stopped blocking Sweden's accession to NATO.

"A deal's a deal," said Idaho Senator Jim Risch, the ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Treasury and Finance Minister Mehmet Şimşek has held a series of talks at the first G20 finance ministers and central bank governors' meeting of the year in Sau Paulo, Brazil.

All police officers across the country will be equipped with body cameras integrated with facial recognition systems in 2025, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya has announced.

Parliament on Thursday ratified the draft law on the use of public property in coastal areas with the inclusion of some revisions that had been requested by social organizations.

An Istanbul court has sentenced journalist and mayor of Istanbul's Adalar district Erdem Gül to five years in prison in his retrial for aiding the FETÖ terrorist organization over a piece of news involving images of trucks related to Turkish intel.

The most aristocratic hotel in Athens keeps the myth alive by hosting the greatest personalities of all time

President Vladimir Putin warned on Feb. 29 of a "real" risk of nuclear war if the West escalates the conflict in Ukraine.

In a defiant speech in Moscow, the Russian leader said his soldiers were advancing in Ukraine and warned the West of "tragic consequences" for any country that dared to send troops to Kiev.

The 112-year-old Bulgur Palas, designed by an Italian architect, is now open to the public following extensive restoration works by the Istanbul Municipality.

The building, whose original name was Bolulu Habip Bey Mansion and whose project was designed by the Italian architect Giulio Mongeri in 1912, was known to the people as Bulgur Palas.

The remains of the flooded Tekkale village and its castle have resurfaced after authorities released water from the northeastern province of Artvin's Yusufeli Dam, Türkiye's highest dam, as a precautionary measure.

The construction of the Yusufeli Dam and hydroelectric power plant on the Çoruh River in Artvin, whose operation started on Feb. 26, 2013, has been completed.

A project has been launched in the Mediterranean province of Antalya to address the staffing gap in industrial workers by training women to work in various positions, leveraging the untapped potential of homemakers seeking opportunities outside the home.