ISTANBUL: The helmet-topped engineer drove his pointy instrument into the concrete to test whether Durmus Uygun's building will crumble when the feared big quake finally strikes Istanbul. https://twitter.com/i/status/1630175421093257218 "I'm pretty…
ISTANBUL: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif addressed at the inaugural ceremony of PNS Khyber held at the Naval Shipyard here on Friday 25th of November, 2022. The 3rd MILGEM class corvette…
ISTANBUL: Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb has called for creating an OIC working Group to counter Islamophobia and misinformation. https://twitter.com/PakinTurkiye/status/1583759756954853376 She was addressing 12th Conference of the Ministers…
MANHATTAN: The first, eagerly-awaited commercial shipment of grain to leave the Ukrainian port of Odesa since Russia’s invasion more than five months ago, was cleared to proceed to Lebanon Wednesday,…
KARACHI: Commissioner Karachi Iftikhar Shallwani left for Istanbul to review the functioning of Tram service in Turkey so as to proposed Tram Service Project to be started in Karachi. Director…
ISTANBUL: Turkish prosecutors on Tuesday issued detention warrants for 110 soldiers, mostly on active service, over their alleged links to a network believed to be behind a coup attempt in…
ISTANBUL: Turkey on Thursday enters a new era of tight social media restrictions that threaten to erase the local presence of Facebook and Twitter should they fail to take down…
ISTANBUL: A vast majority of the huge Syrian community living for years in Turkey have no plans to return home, despite challenging living conditions and a prevailing anti-refugee sentiment in…
ISTANBUL: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday said Turkey had made its biggest-ever discovery of natural gas after completing new exploration work in the Black Sea. Erdogan said the 320-billion-cubic-metre…
ISTANBUL: Turkey's parliament on Wednesday passed a controversial bill which gives the government greater control of social media, the official Anadolu news agency reported. Under the new law, social media…
ISTANBUL: The iconic Hagia Sophia here reopened today as a Mosque after 86 years for Namaz-e-Juma. Governor of Istanbul Ali Yerlikaya took to the Twitter to welcome the thousands of…
NEW YORK/ISLAMABAD/ ANKARA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will arrive in Pakistan on a 24 October 2019 on a two-day official visit, announced ministry of the interior Turkey today. According…
ANKARA: Turkish police launched nationwide raids on Tuesday to detain 122 individuals accused of ties to the group blamed for a 2016 coup attempt, state media reported. Prosecutors from Istanbul,…
ISTANBUL: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said it was "out of the question" for Turkey to support the US economic plan for Palestinians, in comments published on Monday. The White House…
ISTANBUL: A Turkish court on Tuesday lifted the house arrest of a US consulate staffer charged with terrorism offences, just days before President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is due to meet…
ISTANBUL: Istanbul will vote for a mayor for the second time in three months on Sunday as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's party fights to win back the city after a…
ISTANBUL: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday Turkey would not withdraw from a deal made with Russia to buy an S-400 missile defence system despite US threats of "devastating" consequences.…
TOKYO: The 2020 Tokyo Olympic torch relay will commence on March 26 in disaster-hit Fukushima and pass through other areas in north-east Japan devastated by the 2011 tsunami, organisers said…
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Aviation Monday said that a direct flight between Azerbaijan and Pakistan is scheduled to operate soon. Ghulam Sarwar Khan said this during a meeting with Ali…
ANKARA: A scholar from the University of Oxford has called upon developing Muslim nations to draw lessons from the progress of Turkey. Adeel Malik, who teaches at the Department of…
ISTANBUL: A US embassy staffer denied espionage charges as his trial resumed in Istanbul on Wednesday -- part of a growing rift between Washington and Ankara. Metin Topuz, a Turkish…
ISTANBUL: Turkey's highest court on Thursday ruled that the authorities had violated the human rights of two journalists critical of President Tayyip Erdogan following an attempted coup in 2016. The…
ANKARA: A suspected United Arab Emirates spy who was detained by Turkish authorities 10 days ago has committed suicide in prison, a Turkish government source and state media said on…
ISTANBUL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's AKP suffered a major blow in Sunday's local election with the ruling party set to lose the capital Ankara and risking defeat in the…
