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The Turkish pop star Gülşen has been arrested on charges of “inciting hatred and enmity” over a joke she made about Turkey’s religious schools.The 46-year-old singer-songwriter, whose full name is Gülşen Çolakoğlu, was taken away from her home in Istanbul for questioning and formally arrested late on Thursday. She was then taken to a prison pending trial.The arrest has sparked outrage on social media. Government critics said the move was an effort by the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, to consolidate support from…

For people living in Turkey’s big cities, the electric scooter has become essential to their everyday lives as it offers an alternative to public transport amid the Covid-19 pandemic and the soaring fuel prices. But as the two-wheeled electric vehicle proliferated on the streets, so did the traffic accidents, which sparked a debate in Turkey over their safety, Xinhua news agency reported. Between April 2021 and June 2022, eight people were killed and 899 others injured in the country’s accidents involving e-scooters,…

The official press release about Turkey’s “discovery” is scant on details. But Goodenough suggests that it is likely to be the well-known Kizilçaören deposit, located near the city of Eskişehir in northwestern Turkey. She and colleagues visited this deposit five years ago and have discussed its potential for rare earth extraction in academic papers. The mineral bastnäsite, which contains rare earth elements, has been identified at Kizilçaören in the past. “This deposit we have written about, it is similar to some of the…

ANKARA, Turkey—Turkish and United Nations diplomats are discussing a new proposal for extracting grain currently blockaded in Ukrainian ports, by escorting freighters through a safe passage among the defensive mines that protect Black Sea ports amid the war with Russia.The proposal is the latest effort by Turkey and the U.N. to transport Ukrainian grain out of the country. Russia’s invasion has left about 20 million metric tons of grain stranded in Ukraine, heightening fears of a global food crisis after months in which…

The rapidly spreading avian influenza outbreak in the U.S. that has led to the death of nearly 40 million birds is squeezing Hormel Foods turkey flocks, as meat prices hit their highest levels in years.The Austin, Minn.-based maker of Spam said its Jennie-O turkey brand faces an uncertain period as the bird flu outbreak is expected to continue to weigh on industrywide poultry supplies. Jennie-O Turkey Store sales volumes are expected to decline about 30% in the second half of the year due to supply gaps, HormelChief…

Breadcrumb Trail Links PMN Politics PMN News Author of the article: Article content LONDON — If Western leaders were surprised to see Turkey throw a diplomatic wrench into plans to admit Finland and Sweden into NATO, they should not have been. Throughout the last decade, President Tayyip Erdogan has been relentlessly consistent in attempting to take almost any international crisis or dynamic and make it more about Turkey than any of the other players wanted or expected. It’s an approach that has…

Breadcrumb Trail Links PMN Politics PMN News Author of the article: Reuters Jonathan Spicer and Humeyra Pamuk and Robin Emmott Article content ISTANBUL/WASHINGTON/BRUSSELS — When Finland and Sweden signaled they were thinking of making the historic decision joining NATO, the alliance expected a tough response from Moscow, not from one of its own. Yet at a gathering of NATO foreign ministers with their Finnish and Swedish counterparts on Saturday to celebrate the biggest shift in European…