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Fidan visits Rafah border, says Israel's aid block 'first phase of genocide'
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan visited the Rafah border on Sunday and stated that preventing aid efforts is Israel's first step toward committing genocide against Palestinians.
Turkish FM visits Egypt amid thaw in relations
Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan arrived in Egypt on Aug. 4 for a two-day visit aimed at improving relations between Ankara and Cairo.
The visit made at the invitation of Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty will include discussions on bilateral relations as well as regional and international developments, according to a statement from Türkiye's Foreign Ministry.
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Reliance on natural gas leaves Greece vulnerable to price swings
Recent developments in the Middle East have led to a renewed phase of uncertainty and have pushed liquefied natural gas (LNG) prices up.
September futures contracts on the Netherlands-based TTF exchange rose 16% last week, to levels not seen since December 2023.
Prominent Roman emperor’s perfume recreated
The Scent Culture and Tourism Association, which highlights ancient perfumes, has recreated the "Telinum" perfume used by the Roman emperor Julius Caesar.
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Erdoğan declares day of mourning for slain Hamas leader Haniyeh
Türkiye on Friday will observe a national day of mourning for the burial in Qatar of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh who was killed in Tehran, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said.
Haniyeh's killing crippled ceasefire efforts, Ankara believes
The assassination of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh will deal a great blow on multilateral efforts to broker a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, security sources in Ankara believe, blaming Netanyahu's government for refuting peace calls by the international community.
Haniyeh Assassination: Implications for the Middle East’s Volatile Landscape
The temperature is soaring. The already incendiary region of the Near Middle East is one step closer to the danger of a broader escalation after the assassination of Hamas’ top political leader, Ismail Haniyeh, in Tehran early this morning.
Ancient secrets unearthed in vast Turkish cave city
Through a basement door in southeastern Türkiye lies a sprawling underground city — perhaps the country's largest — which one historian believes dates back to the ninth century B.C.
Archaeologists stumbled upon the city-under-a-city "almost by chance" after an excavation of house cellars in Midyat, near the Syrian border, led to the discovery of a vast labyrinth of caves in 2020.
Fidan attends Iranian president's inauguration ceremony
Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Tuesday attended the inauguration ceremony of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian in Tehran, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said.
Pezeshkian won a runoff race against ultraconservative Saeed Jalili on July 5 to replace president Ebrahim Raisi who died in a helicopter crash in May.
The Wreck of the Liner “Arcadian” Discovered in the Aegean – Its Story and Coincidence with the “Titanic”
The British liner S.S. ARCADIAN, torpedoed by a German submarine and sunk during World War I, taking 279 people with it, was discovered by researcher Kostas Thoctarides and his team southeast of Sifnos at a depth of 163 meters.