Anger has been sparked once again over the poor condition of horses used to pull carriages on Istanbul’s Büyükada, the largest of the Princes’ Islands, after footage emerged of a horse that had collapsed and fallen to the ground in exhaustion.
A wave of undocumented migrants from Afghanistan has hit Turkey in recent months, Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu said on April 25.
The 2017 World Press Freedom Index of the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has seen Turkey fall to the rank of 157 among 180 countries.
Hundreds of students and faculty members on April 24 protested against a bill submitted to the Turkish Parliament to split Istanbul University.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on April 24 he was expecting to hold a campaign rally in a European city next month ahead of the June elections despite a ban by some Western countries on Turkish politicians campaigning abroad.
A Ziraat Turkey Cup semifinal game between Fenerbahçe and Beşiktaş called off last week due to violence will pick up where it left off on May 3, but with no fans in attendance, the Turkish Football Federation (TFF) ruled on April 25.
Crude oil prices are expected to jump 23 percent this year amid strong economic growth, while metals prices are rising, hit by ongoing trade tensions, the World Bank has said.
Car giant Volkswagen announced onr April 24 investments of 15 billion euros ($18 billion) in electric and autonomous vehicles in China by 2022, in a massive bet on the vital market.
Victims of attacks in Israel cannot use an 18th century law to sue the Arab Bank, a multinational financial institution, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on April 24 in a precedent-setting case for other foreign businesses.
Bond yields in the euro area rose yesterday as a selloff in U.S. Treasuries gathered pace, although a looming European Central Bank meeting injected a note of caution into regional debt markets.
The Philippines has ordered an Australian Catholic nun to leave the country in 30 days after the immigration bureau revoked her missionary visa for joining protest rallies, an immigration official said on April 25.
Japan’s education minister apologized on April 25 for using an official car to visit a yoga studio, but denied claims that the facility was offering “sexy private yoga.”
Chinese police have seized 1.3 tons of cocaine from South America in the country’s biggest ever haul of the drug, authorities said.
Firefighters in Indonesia were struggling April 25 to contain a blaze at an oil well in the northwestern province of Aceh that killed 10 people and injured as many as 40.
Colorful jets light up the sky for Eurasia Airshow in Antalya
National Sovereignty and Children’s Day celebrated across Turkey
Cherry blossoms bloom in Turkish capital
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