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25.01.2022 The island is a ghost town, its trees just dead sticks in a gray landscape, its homes and school ash-covered and damaged by continuing earthquakes and the explosive volcanic eruption that occurred one year ago.
23.01.2022 An FBI office in the state of Virginia warned authorities of a potential "war" from extremist supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump, one day before protesters converged on Washington, according to a report published Tuesday. An internal FBI document obtained by the Washington Post newspaper offered warnings that stand in stark contrast to the words of the head of the bureau's Washington Field Office, Steven D'Antuono, who said after the melee "there was no indication" of planned violent action. But the situational information report, approved for release last Tuesday, explicitly said that the Norfolk, Virginia office "received information indicating calls for violence in response to ‘unlawful lockdowns' to begin on January 6, 2021 in Washington. D.C."
18.01.2022 President Recep Tayyip Erdoan on Wednesday shared his first message on the Telegram messaging app following a terms-of-service update by rival WhatsApp that raised eyebrows on social media. Erdoan in his message drew attention to the lack of rainfall in Turkey in the past few weeks. In the face of a drought threat that is seen once every 100 years, we all have to take precautions. By constructing 600 dams, 590 hydroelectric power plants, 262 potable water installations and... much more, we increased our water capacity to the highest level in all of our regions, the president wrote. However, the main way of using current resources in the best manner goes through savings and conscious consumption, he added. Telegram and other messaging apps are seeing a sudden increase in demand when Whatsapp last week laid out fresh terms, asking users to agree to let owner Facebook Inc. and its subsidiaries collect user data, including their phone number and location. Some privacy activists questioned the "accept our data grab or get out" move on Twitter and suggested users to switch to apps like Signal and Telegram. Many high-level politicians and officials switched to alternative messaging apps while the Turkish Presidency's Directorate of Communications and the country's defense ministry said last week they were quitting WhatsApp and would move their groups to encrypted messaging app BiP, a unit of one of Turkey's leading GSM operators, Turkcell. #whatsapp #telegram
17.01.2022 Turkey will continue to work on the preservation of the November cease-fire in the Nagorno-Karabakh region while boosting efforts for the restoration of the area, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuolu said Thursday. Speaking to the Global Journalism Council’s Global Media Journal, Çavuolu said that it was tragic that it took 30 years to reach the current situation despite Armenia’s occupation of Nagorno-Karabakh being an open violation of international law. Clashes between Baku... and Yerevan erupted on Sept. 27, and the Armenian Army launched attacks on civilians and Azerbaijani forces, violating cease-fire agreements. During the 44-day conflict, Azerbaijan liberated several cities and nearly 300 settlements and villages from the Armenian occupation. The two countries signed a Russia-brokered agreement on Nov. 10 to end the fighting and work toward a comprehensive resolution. A joint Turkish-Russian center with peacekeepers from both countries has been established to monitor the truce. The cease-fire is seen as a victory for Azerbaijan and a defeat for Armenia, whose armed forces have withdrawn in line with the agreement. Underlining that this agreement reiterated that Nagorno-Karabakh is part of Azerbaijan, and that the other seven provinces that were under Armenian occupation were given back to their real owner, Çavuolu stressed that 1 million Azerbaijanis will be able to return to their homes after decades.
17.01.2022 Serkan moved to Australia when he was four. His family’s obsession with all things Turkish food and culture saw him grow up with cooking over coals and fire - seeing that love of food and how it brought people together was what inspired him to get into cooking. He commenced his apprenticeship at Rockpool Bar & Grill before moving on to Pier in Rose Bay where he completed it. After a break to pursue an engineering degree, his love of cooking pulled him back and he bolstered hi...s skills and his resume with stages at Six Penny, Attica and Brae then three months at Mercado while Quay was renovated. He then joined the Quay team where he worked for three years with the great Peter Gilmore. Read the full article on our website (link in bio) Serkan will open Char restaurant in Sydney’s West in January 2020.
15.01.2022 Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas announced parliamentary and presidential elections on Friday, the first in 15 years, in an effort to heal long-standing internal divisions. The move is widely seen as a response to criticism of the democratic legitimacy of Palestinian political institutions, including Abbas's presidency. It also comes days before the inauguration of U.S. President-elect Joe Biden, with whom the Palestinians want to reset relations after they reached a low u...nder President Donald Trump. According to a decree issued by Abbas's office, the Palestinian Authority, which has limited self-rule in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, will hold legislative elections on May 22 and a presidential vote on July 31. "The President instructed the election committee and all state apparatuses to launch a democratic election process in all cities of the homeland," the decree said, referring to the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem. The Palestinians' last parliamentary ballot in 2006 resulted in a surprise win by Hamas, widening an internal political rift that led to the group's military seizure of the Gaza Strip in 2007. There was no immediate comment from Hamas on Abbas's announcement.
13.01.2022 The coronavirus pandemic has further increased the craving for clean air, a situation that will greatly accelerate the transition to electric vehicles (EVs), Turkey’s Electric and Hybrid Vehicles Association (TEHAD) head said Monday. The pandemic has triggered a serious process of change for states, Berkan Bayram said. The burgeoning EV industry in Turkey needs a strong infrastructure and a supportive customer scheme to increase 100% electric-powered cars from their modest ...number of 2,500 in use between 2011 and 2020, Bayram told Anadolu Agency (AA). Sales of electric cars worldwide, which accounted for 2.6% of global car sales and about 1% of global car stocks in 2019, reached 2.1 million in 2019, boosting the total electric car stocks to 7.2 million, according to the International Energy Agency's (IEA) Global EV Outlook 2020 report released in mid-2020. Turkey saw an increase in the number of hybrid vehicles, which combine a gasoline or diesel engine with an electric motor, to 22,722 by the end of 2020. Bayram said despite the disruptions in the supply chain in the global automotive industry in 2020, there was a noteworthy increase in Turkey’s car production and sales figures from the previous year. Bayram said that in keeping with the trend of more electric cars in Turkey, the infrastructure for EV charging is expanding. Bayram said as a result of the increasing demand for individual cars and widespread use of electric vehicles, the number of charging stations has multiplied in a way that there is at least one station in all of Turkey's 81 provinces. The total figure has exceeded 3,000, he noted. We have observed that Turkish customers tend to go for electric-powered automobiles or hybrid models if there is an option to buy rather than lease or instead of diesel engines, he said. However, he added that the lack of incentives to buy electric cars forces them to choose other options.
13.01.2022 The World Health Organization #WHO said Wednesday that about 28 million vaccine doses have been administered so far in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic largely in the wealthiest countries. WHO Emergencies Director Michael Ryan said around 46 countries had started their #coronavirus #vaccination campaigns of which 38 were high-income countries. "We've about 28 million vaccine doses that have been administered so far. Five different vaccines or platforms have been us...ed," he told a live WHO social media event. "Forty-six countries, approximately, are now vaccinating. But only one of those countries is a low-income country," he said. "There are populations out there who want and need vaccines who are not going to get them unless and until we begin to share better." The novel coronavirus has killed more than 1.96 million people since the outbreak emerged in China in December 2019, while more than 91.5 million cases have been registered, according to an AFP tally from official sources. The figures are based on daily tolls provided by health authorities in each country and exclude later reevaluations by statistical organizations.
12.01.2022 Israeli military bulldozers on Wednesday destroyed 2 acres (0.8 hectares) of farmland and dozens of olive trees in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron, according to local residents. At least 80 olive trees were chopped down by soldiers in the town of Beit Ummar, northwest of Hebron, the residents said. Palestinian farmers complain of repeated attacks on their farmlands by Israeli soldiers and settlers.... According to the Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign a coalition of Palestinian nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) 2020 was the harshest year for the farmers. More than 8,400 olive trees were uprooted or burned.
11.01.2022 U.S. President Donald Trump was impeached by the U.S. House for a historic second time Wednesday, charged with incitement of insurrection over the deadly mob siege of the Capitol in a swift and stunning collapse of his final days in office. With the Capitol secured by armed National Guard troops inside and out, the House voted 232-197 to impeach Trump. The proceedings moved at lightning speed, with lawmakers voting just one week after violent pro-Trump loyalists stormed the... U.S. Capitol, egged on by the president’s calls for them to fight like hell against the election results. Ten Republicans fled Trump, joining Democrats who said he needed to be held accountable and warned ominously of a clear and present danger if Congress should leave him unchecked before Democrat Joe Biden’s inauguration Jan. 20. Trump is the only U.S. president to be twice impeached. The Capitol insurrection stunned and angered lawmakers, who were sent scrambling for safety as the mob descended, and it revealed the fragility of the nation’s history of peaceful transfers of power. The riot also forced a reckoning among some Republicans, who have stood by Trump throughout his presidency and largely allowed him to spread false attacks against the integrity of the 2020 election. #uselection #trumpimpeachment #turkishnewspress
09.01.2022 The second year of the COVID-19 pandemic may be tougher than the first given how the coronavirus is spreading, especially in the northern hemisphere, as more infectious variants circulate, according to a new statement from the World Health Organization (WHO) Wednesday. We are going into a second year of this, it could even be tougher given the transmission dynamics and some of the issues that we are seeing, Mike Ryan, the WHO's top emergencies official, said during an event... on social media. The worldwide death toll is approaching 2 million people since the pandemic began, with 91.5 million people infected. The WHO, in its latest epidemiological update issued overnight, said after two weeks of fewer cases being reported, some five million new cases were reported last week, the likely result of a letdown of defenses during the holiday season in which people and the virus came together. Certainly in the northern hemisphere, particularly in Europe and North America we have seen that sort of perfect storm of the season coldness, people going inside, increased social mixing and a combination of factors that have driven increased transmission in many, many countries, Ryan said.
05.01.2022 Turkey’s Personal Data Protection Board (KVKK) Tuesday announced it had officially launched a probe into WhatsApp, a day after the country's competition watchdog announced an investigation into the messaging app and its owner Facebook over new usage terms that sparked privacy concerns. The board on Monday announced it would discuss WhatsApp’s mandatory update at Tuesday’s meeting. The meeting discussed the messaging app’s update of usage terms asking users to consent to per...sonal data being processed and shared with suppliers, business partners, service providers and other third parties abroad, Anadolu Agency (AA) reported. After evaluating whether the issue adheres to general personal data protection legislation, the KVKK decided to initiate a formal review of the app's data processing conditions, data transfers abroad and basic principles. The board said it would follow the process and reassess the matter on Feb. 8, according to a statement. The Turkish Competition Board (RK) on Monday announced that it had launched an investigation into Facebook and WhatsApp over the changes to the messaging app’s data-sharing rules. In a written statement, the board said it had ruled the data-collection requirement should be suspended until the probe is complete.
04.01.2022 The freezing over of Lake Çldr in Turkey’s eastern Ardahan and Kars provinces each year is awaited with anticipation by locals, who turn to the lake’s glassy surface for entertainment and income. The air temperature at the lake, which is the second-largest in Turkey, currently ranges between 8 degrees Celsius and minus 16 C (46.4 to 3.2 degrees Fahrenheit), and the ice is now up to 10 centimeters (3.9 inches) deep on some parts of the lake. The ice is not yet thick enough, however, for the gleeful sleigh rides that attract tourists to Ardahan each winter. Instead, locals start off the season with bicycle rides across the ice.
