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A Turkish Crypto founder, Faruk Fatih Ozer, who ran Thodex for a few years before it crashed in 2021 has been sentenced to 11,196 years in prison for crimes including fraud. Ozer was sentenced by a Turkish court on Thursday in Istanbul alongside his two siblings who were found guilty of fraud, leading […]
A fresh earthquake has hit the region of the Turkey-Syria border. The quake comes days after earthquakes were recorded in both countries, which resulted in over 40,000 deaths. According to Syria’s state news agency (SANA), the 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck Turkey’s Hatay province, which was devastated by a massive tremor two weeks ago. It also […]
The body of the former Premier League player Christian Atsu, who was killed in the devastating earthquake in Turkey, has arrived in Ghana, on Sunday. Atsu’s death was announced on Saturday by his agent Nana Sechere, who said the footballer’s body was found 12 days after the disaster hit Turkey and Syria, claiming more […]
Four days after deadly earthquakes hit Turkey and Syria, rescue workers have recorded successes in pulling several people alive from the rubble. The death toll from the double earthquakes has now exceeded 21,500. At least 18,342 people have been killed in Turkey while over 3,377 people are known to have died in Syria. The […]
Turkish President Recep Erdoğan has announced a three-month state of emergency in the country to enable rapid search-and-rescue operations. In a statement on Tuesday, Erdogan said the state of emergency would affect the 10 provinces hit by the earthquakes which occurred on Monday. The death toll in the earthquakes, which affected Turkey and […]
Six persons have been confirmed dead and 53 others wounded after the explosion that rocked a busy pedestrian street in central Istanbul. According to a report on Al-Jazeera, ambulances rushed to the scene on packed Istiklal Avenue, which police quickly cordoned off. The area in the city’s Beyoglu district had been crowded with […]
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