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Turkey mourns its tens of thousands dead, surrounded by the ruins of last year’s earthquake
Millions of people across Turkey on Tuesday mourned the loss of more than 53,000 friends, loved ones and neighbors in the country's catastrophic earthquake a year ago.
To mark what it calls the "Disaster of the Century," the government arranged a series of events to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the disaster in southern Turkey.
Turkey to convert another Greek church into a mosque
Turkish authorities are reportedly moving ahead with the conversion of another Byzantine Greek Orthodox church into a mosque. The Chora Church in Istanbul will be open to Muslim worshippers for Friday prayers on February 23, according to a report in the Yeni Safak newspaper.
Senator Van Hollen and Turkey’s F-16s
Senator Chris Van Hollen, an important voice of the Democratic caucus in the upper chamber of Congress, announced a few days ago that he will not aim to block the sale of F-16s to Turkey after the latter has ceased its incursions into Greek airspace, and, maybe more importantly, the Biden administration gave him assurances that it will continue to monitor this matter closely.
Serbia to be seeded in Davis Cup playoffs draw
LONDON - Serbia will be seeded in the draw for the September 13-15 tennis Davis Cup World Group 1 playoffs, the International Tennis Federation announced on its website on Tuesday.
The draw ceremony is scheduled for February 8.
The other seeds are Croatia, Sweden, Kazakhstan, South Korea, Switzerland, Hungary, Portugal, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Israel and Colombia.
One person killed and 2 assailants shot dead during an attack on a Turkish courthouse
One person died and two assailants were fatally shot in an attack on a courthouse in Istanbul on Tuesday, Turkish officials said.
The attackers, a man and woman, were killed during an "attempt to attack" a security checkpoint at the Caglayan courthouse, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya posted on social media.
Turkey, a year after the life-changing earthquakes
HATAY, Turkey - "It felt like the world was turning upside down. Telling the story is not the same as experiencing it." Sixty-one-year-old Kanraman Karat vividly remembers this night last year when the earth shook violently in the middle of his slumbers, taking tens of thousands of lives and destroying hundreds of thousands of properties.
Hybrid war waged against Serbia: Scheme shown
The President then referred to the external and internal destruction of Serbia and showed how they are doing it.
Vucic showed the scheme and said: "You need supremacy in the air, in every war. That's money. You need infantry. That's the situation on the ground. You need artillery, tanks and everything else, that's the media."
As he said, money comes from three sides.
The US nod to the prodigal son
In the immediate aftermath of Turkey's invasion of Cyprus in 1974, American foreign policy became focused on three areas: a) preventing a war between Greece and Turkey; b) keeping NATO's southern flank intact; and c) averting Soviet involvement. In other areas, it allowed developments to take their own course, so that a new balance of power was created between Greece, Turkey and Cyprus.