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China’s state-run Global Times on Wednesday claimed production of China’s CH drones is “running at maximum capacity thanks to heavy market demand” – heavy enough to warrant a new state-of-the-art production line that will become fully operational next year.

Turkey prices are set to gobble up a bigger part of family budgets this year as farmers grapple with inflation, drought, and avian flu, which could drive prices higher as Thanksgiving approaches.

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said in remarks on Monday that his country would “not remain indifferent” if shown proof that Russia was using its homemade drones to bomb Ukraine, suggesting that Moscow did not discuss using the drones in the Ukrainian war with Iran and that Tehran disapproved.

The court said the defendants were influenced “by Christian fundamentalism” and by the predictions of a Turkish fortune-teller.

The tomb of St. Nicholas, who inspired the Christmas legend of Santa Claus, was recently discovered underneath a church in Turkey.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has become something of a proxy battlefield for drones from Turkey and Iran. Ukrainian defense forces have made spectacular use of Turkey’s Bayraktar drones, which have become one of the hottest military products in the world, while Iran is (not very) secretly believed to be supplying Russia with its Mohajer and Shahed unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).

Cologne’s massive central mosque broadcast the Islamic call to prayer for the first time ever this week following a German court ruling granting permission to do so.

A German court convicted the owner of a Turkish restaurant of ordering an arson attack that he blamed on far-right extremists four years ago.

45-year-old musician Onur Sener, a 2013 contestant on Turkey’s version of the TV talent show The Voice, was killed on Sunday night by three patrons of a bar in Ankara because he did not know the words to a song they requested.

Consumers will see record high prices when it comes to holiday turkey due to the bird flu and inflation in President Joe Biden’s (D) America.

The coast guard said 15 bodies had been recovered near the eastern island of Lesbos after a dinghy carrying about 40 people sank.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s address to the 77th U.N. General Assembly in New York City on Tuesday was largely dedicated to his contention that nearly all problems can be solved through “dialogue,” and Turkey is indispensable to every dialogue in the Middle East and Asia.

Cyprus has assisted in rescue of a small wooden boat crammed with more than 300 migrants that was floating west of the island nation.

Turkey’s authoritarian President Recep Tayyip Erdogan decided to soften his public image on Saturday by taking a walk through Central Park in New York City, which he is visiting to attend the United Nations General Assembly.

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias says he is concerned over his country’s relations with neighbouring Turkey, as Ankara has repeatedly threatened its supposed NATO ally in recent weeks.

Activists and Syrian migrants in Turkey are making attempts to form a massive caravan of illegals to cross into the EU illegally.

The government of the Czech Republic, which currently holds the rotating presidency of the European Union, has condemned threats from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as Turkey has also claimed Kurdish terrorists have been training in Greece. President Erdogan made

The leader of the Swedish Islamic Nyans Party has been convicted of minor assault by a Turkish court over a violent incident directed at a relative that took place in 2009.

Ukraine has relied heavily on Turkish-made Bayraktar drones to fight the Russian invasion.

Turkey’s Vice President Fuat Oktay and Defence Minister Hulusi Akar launched a barrage of threats toward NATO ally Greece this week, as tensions between the two countries remain high.

The Greek government has decided to extend the border wall with Turkey so that the fence will cover the entire length of the land frontier with the hostile Islamist-led country.

Two Bulgarian police officers were killed early Thursday as they tried to stop a bus containing migrants who had entered the country illegally, a senior interior ministry official said.

Turkey doubled its Russian oil imports year-on-year over a period spanning January to August 2022, Reuters reported on Monday citing new data from the financial analyst platform Refinitiv Eikon.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Saturday urged governments and private sectors worldwide to allow Russian food and fertilizer “unimpeded access” to the global market as they are “not subject to sanctions” imposed on Moscow by the U.S. government and its allies in response to Russia’s latest war with Ukraine, Turkey’s Hürriyet Daily News reported.

Cyprus has signed paperwork towards the purchase of Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system in a bid to counter the threat of Turkish drones, a Greek newspaper reported on Friday.

Inflation figures in the U.S. of 8.5 per cent, the United Kingdom of 10.1 per cent and the 19-country euro area of 8.9 per cent come nowhere close to Turkey’s eye-popping rate of nearly 80 per cent, with skyrocketing food, housing and energy prices hitting people hard.

Satellite photos analyzed by the Associated Press on Tuesday revealed the much-celebrated first shipment of grain to leave Ukraine under a deal with its Russian invaders, officially bound for starving Lebanon, wound up in Syria instead.

Ukrainian Ambassador to Turkey Vasyl Bodnar said in an interview published on Monday that Turkey’s Baykar corporation, creator of the highly effective Bayraktar attack drone, is building a factory in Ukraine. 

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Saturday that five Turkish banks will begin using Russia’s Mir electronic payment system – a sign of deepening ties between NATO member Turkey and outlaw Russia, and a step toward dismantling the international financial system that allows Western nations to impose economic sanctions on rogue regimes.

In a bid to solve delays in the country’s airports, Germany is to do what it does best: bring in more migrants, mostly from Turkey.

Annual inflation in Turkey soared to nearly 80%, official data shows, with food, housing and energy prices hitting consumers hard.

The first ship set off under an UN-Turkey deal that will release Ukrainian crops to foreign markets and ease a growing hunger crisis.

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The Greek government has called on Germany to halt the sale of attack submarines to Turkey, arguing that the sale could upset the naval balance of power in the region as tensions with the Islamist-led country remain high.

Former NBA star Enes Kanter Freedom, unceremoniously removed from the Boston Celtics roster after publicly condemning the Chinese Communist Party, spent much of this week in Florida meeting with members of the Cuban exile community and lending messages of hope and solidarity against communism.

Russia and Ukraine signed separate agreements Friday with Turkey and the U.N. clearing the way for exporting millions of tons of grain.