Djibouti

Turkey evacuated 55 of its nationals from the Yemeni city of Aden on April 3 with a military boat amid fighting and a bombing campaign from regional Sunni powers, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavu?o?lu said.

The boat will take the Turkish nationals to Djibouti, where they will take a Turkish Airlines (THY) flight to return home, Çavu?o?lu wrote on his Twitter account.

More than 500 die in Yemen during past two weeks

519 people, 90 of them children, have been killed in the fighting in Yemen during the past two weeks, while some 1,700 others have been wounded.

Novinite has interviewed H.E. Xavier Lapeyre de Cabanes, who apart from English, German and Portuguese is also fluent in Bulgarian. This is not surprising, since between 1991 and 1995 he worked at the French Embassy in Sofia and is, moreover, married to a Bulgarian.

Health Minister Mehmet Müezzino?lu has labeled the Foundation for Children with Leukemia?s (LÖSEV) efforts to build a hospital with a capacity of 400 beds ?unethical,? as the foundation had initially applied to build only a 100-bed capacity hospital. Müezzino?lu also said a foundation cannot be stronger than the state, and LÖSEV should adhere to the initial permission it received.

The disclosure of leaked HSBC confidential documents that reveal how the Swiss bank was helping its wealthy clients, including several Greeks, to conceal millions of their assets, has caused global uproar during the last 24 hours.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an arrived in war-torn Somalia on Jan. 25 amid tight security, a rare visit by a foreign leader to the war-torn nation.
      
Hundreds of soldiers and police officers had shut down much of the capital's streets, where on Jan. 22 five people were killed in a suicide attack on a hotel housing the Turkish delegation in Mogadishu.
      

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has said that the European Union "must admit Turkey" as a member if it opposes Islamophobia.

The name of the first Ottoman diplomat in the Horn of Africa is Ahmet Mazhar Bey, who was appointed as consul general to the Ethiopian city of Harar in 1910s. He was shot dead by colonialists in Djibouti.

The last governor was Burhan Bey, who stayed at this Ottoman province until the French arrived in the 1880s.

Foreign leaders gathered in a cavernous mosque in the Saudi Arabian capital on Jan. 23 for the funeral of King Abdullah.
      
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and the leaders of Sudan and Ethiopia joined Gulf rulers for the funeral prayer at Riyadh's Imam Turki bin Abdullah mosque.

An attack against a hotel in the Somali capital of Mogadishu on Jan. 22 killed five people, including two suicide bombers, on the eve of Turkish President Tayyip Erdo?an?s visit to Somalia. A Turkish delegation preparing for Erdo?an?s visit has been staying at the hotel, in front of which a Turkish flag had been raised. Yet another terrorist attack to be condemned...