Status: 02/01/2023 3:46 p.m The German consulate general in Istanbul has been temporarily closed. The reason is the fear of violent reactions to the desecration of the Koran in several European cities. The Foreign Office advises German citizens to be vigilant. The German consulate general in the center of the Turkish metropolis of Istanbul will remain closed for the time being due to the increased risk of attack. This emerges from a message from the Foreign Office to German citizens...
Urging as a result of the Ukraine war Sweden and Finland to join NATO. All 30 members must agree to this, Turkey and Hungary have so far refused. With regard to Finland, the process is "positive", said Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at a cabinet meeting. "But We do not view Sweden positivelyThat should be said." One observes this very closely. "Sweden, don't try in vain!" said Erdogan. "As long as you and your security forces allow my holy book,...
comment by Christiane SchloezerThe notoriously weak Turkish opposition did a lot of things right this time. Despite the enormous ideological range within its six-party alliance, it has agreed on a uniform program for the parliamentary and presidential elections. It also wants to nominate a joint candidate for the May elections to take on Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, a well-versed Bosphorus populist who has managed to stay in power for 20 consecutive years. source site
Kriminalrat Alexander Berthold brought a whole series of figures with him: they followed 450 leads, interviewed more than 100 witnesses and printed 17,000 wanted posters, the head of the Graben special commission reported on Monday at a press conference at the police headquarters in Central Franconia. All of the measures had one goal: the arrest of Mert A., 28. The man who is said to have shot another man, 30, and seriously injured another (35-year-old) in the southern part of...
Status: 01/30/2023 07:31 a.m Turkish President Erdogan threatens Sweden to only agree to Finland joining NATO. But Helsinki should not make the same mistakes as Stockholm. Turkey wants Sweden to extradite people it sees as terrorists. Turkey has indicated its approval of Finland joining NATO, but not Sweden. "If necessary, we could give different messages about Finland," said Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during an appearance in Bilecik province. Sweden will be "shocked when it sees our answer". However, Finland...
Turkey's president says Finland shouldn't make the same mistakes as Sweden, however. Turkey has been blocking the admission of the two Nordic countries into the western military alliance for months. source site
A wild turkey is causing trouble at a trailer park in Anoka County, Minnesota. The aggressive bird has been attacking residents and cars for more than a year. A solution is not in sight.A wild turkey is causing trouble at a trailer park in Anoka County, Minnesota. The aggressive bird has been attacking residents and cars for more than a year. A solution is not in sight.source site-1
The entrance gate of the Swedish Consulate General on the Istanbul shopping street İstiklal looks as if the Bavarian fairytale king Ludwig II put it there: white with high battlements. The fairy-like fits, after all Sweden was always a promise in times when the Turks their own country was hell. After numerous military coups, it offered refuge. This story has not been forgotten, and almost every day people are still queuing in front of the consulate hoping for a visa....
The Turkish-Swedish merry-go-round of outrage is now spinning so fast that you can hardly keep up. On Saturday afternoon, a Koran burned in front of the Turkish embassy in Stockholm, and in the afternoon, opponents of NATO and sympathizers of the Kurdish liberation arms marched through the city center and ran over a photo of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's face. The demonstrators were carrying a doll of the Turkish president that they had hung by its feet ten days earlier. All...
weather phenomenon Spectacular cloud inspires people in Turkey An eye? A UFO? A special sky spectacle in Turkey! © Sinan Balcikoca / Picture Alliance Understandable when you first think of Photoshop when you see this: a cloud that looks like an eye, tinted pink by the sunset. Yes, it really is real. Some recognize an eye in the pink cloud, for others it looks like a UFO. One thing is clear: most people have never seen a cloud like the...
