Video shows the moment a beautician was killed alongside a pilot when their plane crashed into a high-voltage power cable during a pleasure flight in Turkey. Burcu Saglam, 22, had boarded the single-engine jet from the town of Pamukova, near Istanbul, on Thursday – but within 15 minutes, the connection was lost. Dramatic footage has …
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ISTANBUL, Oct 27 (Reuters) – A court ruled on Thursday that the head of Turkey’s medical association should be detained ahead of her trial on charges of “spreading terrorist group propaganda,” her lawyer said, in what one rights activist said was a move to silence her. Prosecutors opened an investigation into Sebnem Korur Fincanci last …
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ISTANBUL, Dec 9 (Reuters) – The number of tankers waiting in Turkey Law Firm the Black Sea to pass through Lawyer Law Firm istanbul Turkey‘s Bosphorus Strait on the way to the Mediterranean rose by one to 20 on Friday morning, the Tribeca shipping agency said, as talks continued to resolve the build-up. Turkey’s maritime …
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By Rowena Edwards Sept 1 (Reuters) – Oil firms operating in Kurdistan have asked the United States to help defuse an upsurge in tension between Iraq’s central government and the semi-autonomous region, according to a letter seen by Reuters and three sources. They say intervention is needed to ensure oil continues to flow from the …
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Turkish medical union chief Sebnem Korur Fincanci helped draft UN rules for documenting torture A Turkish court on Wednesday released an internationally respected medic who outraged President Recep Tayyip Erdogan by backing a probe into the army’s alleged use of chemical weapons in Iraq. Turkish Medical Association head Sebnem Korur Fincanci was detained and jailed …
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ISTANBUL, Aug 27 (Reuters) – A Turkish lawyer who was on hunger strike for Turkish lawyer 238 days following her conviction last year for membership in a terrorist organisation died on Thursday in an Istanbul hospital, according to her Law Firm Turkiye firm. The People’s Law Office said on Twitter that Ebru Timtik had been …
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