Another batch of 238 Nigerians stranded in Turkey arrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. The Nigerians in Diaspora Commission disclosed via a statement on the official Twitter handle of NIDCOM, adding that the evacuees arrived at 2;45 pm on Sunday. NIDCOM revealed that all the evacuees tested negative to the COVID-19 disease. Read … Read more
The federal government on Saturday said Nigerians stranded in Turkey will have to cough out $1,300 for one-way flight ticket. The Nigerian embassy in Turkey made this known in a statement on its website. According to the statement, those returning home are expected to pay $1,300 for economy class while business class passengers will pay … Read more
A 31-year-old woman slipped on the grass and fell from a 115-foot cliff to her death while posing for a picture in Turkey. Kazakh native Olesya Suspitsyna perished in front of her female friend who was taking the photograph in the tourist city of Antalya in the south-west of the country. The incident occurred on … Read more
Turkey’s foreign minister has accused French President Emmanuel Macron of being a “sponsor of terrorism”, dismissing the French leader’s criticism of Turkey’s Syria offensive. Mevlut Cavusoglu told reporters that Mr Macron wanted to be the leader of Europe but was “wobbling”. Last month Mr Macron hosted a senior official from the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces … Read more
Turkey qualified for the Euro 2020 finals with a goalless draw in a Group H against Iceland on Thursday, with the result also ensuring France a place in the championships. They join Belgium, Italy, Poland, Russia, Spain and Ukraine as the teams who have already qualified for the tournament that will be staged across 12 … Read more
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has sacked the governor of Turkey’s central bank and replaced him with his deputy, a presidential decree said Saturday, after months of tension with the government over high interest rates. Murat Cetinkaya, who was appointed to the role in April 2016, has been replaced by Murat Uysal, according to the decree … Read more
Turkey has ordered the arrest of 82 military personnel over suspected relations to U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, whose network is accused by Ankara of carrying out an attempted coup in 2016. Ankara blames Gulen, who has lived in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania since 1999, for masterminding an attempted coup in July 2016. Gulen has … Read more