#Turkey increased its #military #spending by 37% in 2023. #Turkiye spent 1.5% of its #GDP on #defence last year. In the last decade, #Ankara 's spending on its #army grew by 59%.

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#Turkey celebrates #Children and National Sovereignty Day on 23 April: a day established by #Ataturk on which children are the protagonists and which coincides with the day on which #Turkiye 's first #parliament was founded during the #Turkish #War of #Independence .

#Football - An injury-time #penalty sinks #Fenerbahce 's #league dreams. A controversial penalty denied Fenerbahçe the 3 points they needed to challenge #Galatasaray for the #Turkish league lead.

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#German President Frank-Walter #Steinmeier was greeted on his arrival in #Turkey (it´s his first visit since 2017) by the governor and the #mayor of #Istanbul ... His #Turkish counterpart #Erdogan , against whom Steinmeier has been highly critical, had left hours earlier for #Iraq .

On his visit to #Iraq , #Turkish president has expressed satisfaction after #Baghdad declared PKK a #terrorist group and a threat to its national security. #Erdogan has insisted on a decisive action against the PKK this summer, which could point to a joint #Turkey - #Iraq operation.

#Boycott to #restaurants in #Turkey over rising #prices . Thousands of #Turks have called for a #boycott of restaurants and #cafes in the face of exorbitant price rises, which also threaten the #tourism sector.

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#Sports - #Dutch triumph in the 1st stage of the Presidential #Cycling #Tour of #Turkey . A total of 172 #cyclists from 25 #teams and 14 countries started this 59th edition of the Tour of #Turkiye , which ends next Sunday in #Istanbul .

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#MiddleEast #News - #Israel will pay one day the price for the atrocities it has committed against #Palestinians in #Gaza , #Turkey 's President Tayyip #Erdogan , who met in #Istanbul on Saturday with the leader of #Hamas ' #political wing, Ismail #Haniyeh , has said.

#Turkish President #Erdogan starts today a historic visit to #Iraq , the first in 12 years, focusing on the joint fight against #terrorism , especially against the #PKK #terrorist group. In addition to #Baghdad , Erdoğan will also visit Erbil, capital of #Kurdistan region in Iraq.

#Tourism in #Turkey : #tourist #season begins at Mount #Nemrut in #Turkiye . Declared a #WorldHeritage Site by #UNESCO , #Mount Nemrut is an artificial #mountain that houses the #tomb of #King Antiochus I.

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#News #Caucasus - #Armenia and #Azerbaijan reach a new #border delimitation deal after #Armenia n side agrees to return to #Baku 4 #villages occupied since 1994, during the 1st #Karabakh #War . Thus #Gazakh province regains the #border s it had after the end of the #USSR .

#Turkish #Music - #Song : Çok sevdik (Murat Boz)

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#Turkish President Tayyip #Erdogan received on Saturday in #Istanbul #Hamas #political wing leader, Ismail Haniyeh, for a closed-door meeting to discuss the situation of #Palestinians in #Gaza following #Israel 's offensive as well as ways to achieve #peace in the #MiddleEast .

#MiddleEast - #Iran confirms that the #strike launched early this morning had a limited range and that no #missiles were used, but #drones . #Iran ian #military officials have expressed doubts about #Israel i responsibility, and #Israel has yet to comment.
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#News - #Google has announced the #firing in the #US of 28 #employees who participated in a #protest against the #company 's involvement in the #Nimbus project, contracted by #Israel and which Google #workers claim will serve to #Israel i repression against #Palestinians .

#Turkey will deploy #fighter #jets to the #NATO #airbase at #Incirlik . Located in the Eastern #Mediterranean and close to the #MiddleEast , this strategic base is used jointly by the #Turkish #army and the #US .

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#Turkey has criticised the #EU for linking negotiations between #Ankara and the #EuropeanUnion , including talks on the #Customs Union and to grant #visas to #Turkish #citizens , to the resolution of the dispute over the #island of #Cyprus , divided since 1974.

#News - The #US has vetoed a #UN #SecurityCouncil resolution to grant #Palestine full #UnitedNations member status. Of the 15 Security Council members, 12 voted in favour, #UK and #Switzerland abstained, and only #US A voted against.

#BREAKING #News #MiddleEast - #US confirms #Israel 's retaliatory #attack against #Iran . #Teheran had warned that, in the event of another #Israel i attack, the #Iran ian #military response would be 'immediate and at the highest level'.

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#News #Turkiye - New #images of the #damage caused by the #earthquake that shook north-central #Turkey today, with its epicentre in #Tokat #province . This #video shows the effects of the #quake in the town of #Sulusaray , where several #buildings were severely #damage d.