When your luck is in…A married father-of-two from Tokat, in northern Turkiye, has become an instant millionaire after winning the top scratchcard prize. Retired worker Dursun Koçyiğit had just enough cash in his pocket to buy himself a packet of cigarettes but, at the last minute, he changed his mind and asked the tobacconist for […]
Planes have been substituted for lorries as florists in Antalya and Isparta regions rush to meet the huge demand for flowers following the death of Queen Elizabeth II. The British public have responded to the passing of their sovereign, who reigned for seventy years, by laying flowers in key public spaces across the country, which […]
The Turkish, Azerbaijani, and Turkish Cypriot presidents have joined leaders from around the world in paying tribute to Queen Elizabeth II, who died on Thursday afternoon aged 96. Tweeting in Turkish from his personal account on Thursday evening, Turkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said: “It is with sadness that I learned of Queen Elizabeth II’s […]
The group stages of Europe’s premier club football competition, the Champions League, get underway this week. A total of 32 teams will compete, hoping to progress to the latter knockout stages, with the top two going on to play in the final at Istanbul’s Atatürk Olympic Stadium on 10 June 2023. Situated in the Başakşehir area […]
On Tuesday, Turks around the world celebrated the hundredth anniversary of the end of the War of Independence, when Anatolians successfully liberated their country from multiple invading forces. From military parades to music concerts, and fashion shows to tennis tournaments, there were joyful scenes in the capital Ankara, and across Turkiye, as well as in […]
Identical twin brothers have hit the headlines in Turkiye after achieving the same scores in their YSK university entrance exams and are now set to study on the same course after choosing the same university. Serdar and Serhat Asker told local media their future goal is to work together in the same role for the […]
On Thursday, Turkiye’s Central Bank cut interest rates from 14% to 13%. The move was not expected by traders and within 24 hours, the Turkish lira was again sliding in the wrong direction nearing record lows. Such is the fear that the move will fuel more inflation that the Turkish lira suffered further depreciation against […]
Two separate road crashes on Saturday, one in Gaziantep and one in Mardin, have caused the deaths of 36 people and injured dozens more, many seriously. The scale of the fatalities prompted many media to describe the two crashes as a “katliam gibi kaza” or ‘massacre-like crashes’. The first reported crash was in the Nizip […]
Relations between Turkiye and Israel is set to return to normal, with the two countries agreeing to send an ambassador to the other, ending a four year period of frostiness between the former allies. The development was announced on Wednesday, 17 August, following a conversation between the Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Israeli Prime […]
Students from Istanbul Technical University (ITU) are road-testing their solar-powered car across Turkiye before they head to Belgium next month for the European Solar Challenge. The students are being sponsored by Zorlu Energy, Turkiye’s largest geothermal energy company. The collaboration with Zorlu’s next generation Energy Solutions brand has led to ITU’s latest solar-powered car being […]
