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Turkey sets sustainable aviation fuel mandate to cut aviation emissions by 5% by 2030
ETInfra.com
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July 1, 2025
Aviation is responsible for 2.5 per cent of global energy-related CO2 emissions, according to the International Energy Agency. Turkey will set mandates for airlines and jet fuel suppliers to boost uptake of sustainable aviation fuel, with a goal...
Turkey arrests cartoonist over alleged depiction of Muhammad amid protests
Straight Arrow News
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July 1, 2025
The Turkish government is taking action against those it accuses of depicting the Prophet Muhammad as a cartoon in a satirical magazine. Turkey’s president called the cartoon a “vile provocation” and promised to hold those responsible for its...
Turkey Violently Arrests Cartoonist for Alleged Image of Muhammad and Moses Shaking Hands
Breitbart
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July 1, 2025
Turkish authorities on Monday arrested cartoonist Dogan Pehlevan for committing an “Islamophobic hate crime” by drawing a cartoon allegedly depicting Islam’s prophet Muhammad. Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya gleefully posted a video of...
Turkey to auction off major companies seized after 2016 coup attempt
Stockholm Center for Freedom
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July 1, 2025
Turkish authorities are preparing to auction off two major companies seized after the country’s 2016 attempted coup, drawing renewed attention to human rights and property rights concerns in the years since the failed military takeover, the TR724...
Turkey: Lifting a Large Part of US Sanctions on Syria is Positive Development
SANA
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July 1, 2025
Ankara, SANA- Turkish Foreign Ministry affirmed Tuesday that the lifting of a large portion of US sanctions imposed on Syria is a positive development. Anadolu Agency quoted Turkish Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Öncü Keçali as saying that the...
Turkey blocks satirical magazine LeMan’s website and X account after alleged Prophet cartoon
Stockholm Center for Freedom
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July 1, 2025
Turkish authorities have blocked access to the website and X account of LeMan, a popular satirical magazine, following accusations that a recent cartoon depicted the Prophet Muhammad, the BirGün daily reported. A case was initiated after a social...
Turkey’s largest private bank issues $100m digital bond on Euroclear’s D-FMI
Ledger Insights
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July 1, 2025
Türkiye İş Bankası (İşbank) has issued a $100 million digital native note (DNN) on Euroclear’s D-FMI distributed ledger technology (DLT) infrastructure, with the International Finance Corporation (IFC), part of the World Bank Group, as the sole...
Turkey raises transit fees again for Bosphorus and Dardanelles
Al Mayadeen
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July 1, 2025
Transit fees through Turkey’s strategic straits have surged 7.2 times since 2022, with new funds supporting coastal safety and emergency services. Turkey has announced a 15% increase in transit fees for ships navigating the Bosphorus and...
Turkey’s opposition, Erdogan’s crackdown, and the country’s economic woes
Kathimerini
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July 1, 2025
PODCASTS We’re turning to Turkey today, where Turkish markets rallied on Monday after a Turkish court adjourned a case that could force the removal of the main opposition party’s leader. Despite this decision, there is still rising political...
Outrage in Turkey as Ancient Phrygian World-Heritage Tomb Becomes Café
Greek Reporter
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July 1, 2025
A protected heritage site in Turkey’s Phrygian Valley was transformed into a café. Credit: Klaus-Peter Simon / CC BY 3.0 An ancient tomb carved into rock in the historic Phrygian Valley of western Turkey has sparked national outrage after being...
Uzbekistan repatriates 50 women deported from Turkey over migration violations.
Kun.uz
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July 1, 2025
The Migration Agency has issued a warning to Uzbek citizens working illegally in Turkey, urging them to legalize their status to avoid deportation. Meanwhile, 50 women have already been repatriated, and another 28 are awaiting return. According to...
Satirical magazine staff detained in Turkey over alleged Prophet Muhammad cartoon
Stockholm Center for Freedom
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July 1, 2025
The Turkish police on Monday detained four staff members and editors at one Turkey’s top satirical magazines for publishing a cartoon that allegedly depicted Prophet Muhammad, Agence France-Presse reported. “The chief public prosecutor’s office...
Public anger grows as wildfires rage in Turkey amid government inaction and media silence
Stockholm Center for Freedom
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July 1, 2025
Wildfires tearing through three provinces in Turkey have sparked public outrage, with residents turning to social media to condemn what they describe as government inaction in getting the fires under control and a lack of media attention to the...
Forward Progress Stopped on Turkey Fire Near Cleator
My Radio Place - Arizona
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July 1, 2025
July 1, 2025 / 7/1 Crown King Fire and Prescott National Forest firefighters responded to the Turkey Fire Monday, north of Cleator and south of Blue Bell mine. As of last night, the fire was holding at 100-acres and forward progress had been...
Heat Wave Hits Europe as Wildfires Break Out in France, Turkey
The Epoch Times
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July 1, 2025
A woman protects herself from the sun in Seville, Spain, on June 28, 2025. Cristina Quicler/AFP via Getty Images A heat wave has gripped Europe, with warnings issued in several countries and wildfires reported in France and Turkey over the weekend...
Turkey’s Prophet Muhammad cartoon row is an ugly sign of the times
The Spectator
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July 1, 2025
Hundreds of Turkish Islamists have attacked a satirical magazine after claiming that it published a cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad. Protestors chanted ‘tooth for tooth, blood for blood, revenge, revenge’ outside the office of LeMan, which...
Public asked to assist DNR with wild turkey survey
Crisfield-Somerset County Times - Maryland
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ANNAPOLIS — Now through Aug. 31 the Maryland Department of Natural Resources is asking citizens to keep an eye out for wild turkeys and report what they see through an online reporting form. Since 1993 DNR has conducted a summer survey of wild...
Europe Swelters Under Record-Breaking Heat Wave as Wildfires Erupt in France, Turkey
Democracy Now!
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In climate news, a massive heat dome is bringing record temperatures to much of Europe, with forecasters warning of even more extreme heat in the coming days. Spain and Portugal just recorded their hottest-ever June temperatures. France saw its...
Rosatom looks for buyers for 49% in Turkey’s nuclear plant
TASS
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July 1, 2025
MOSCOW, July 1. /TASS/. The possibility of selling the 49% stake in the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) project is provided for in the intergovernmental agreement on the project execution made in 2010, Rosatom state corporation told TASS,...
Turkey arrests four over cartoon depicting Abrahamic prophets
Iran Front Page
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July 1, 2025
The cartoon, published last week, triggered a backlash from government officials and religious groups in Turkiye. On Tuesday, the Istanbul chief public prosecutor’s office announced a formal investigation under charges of “openly insulting...