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Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev says Kazakhstan will encourage the use of Kazakh equivalents instead of Arabic expressions such as “Inshaallah” and “Alhamdulillah.”

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Pashinyan looks at home, enjoying a glass of Turkish tea in Türkiye. There's actually quite a bit of sympathy for him among the Turkish public.

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Arda Güler is reportedly open to leaving Real Madrid, with PSG offering him a €22 million annual salary and the promise of making him the centerpiece of the team.

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Don't worry bro, we'll free the south too. Your freedom request has been received and is being processed. 🇹🇷

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All the “Free Palestine” graffiti in the West is now facing competition by “Free Cyprus”

More and more Free Cyprus messages have been appearing on walls in cities across Europe in recent weeks.

This most recent example is from Munich, Germany

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An Uzbek victim in the Epstein case has told how a model agency recruited her, in the BBC's investigation of Epstein's correspondence and victims' testimonies.

Roza Gilles said in earlier testimony that she was raped by Epstein over three years, and has now given information about the agency head who she says escaped accountability.

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Apple's executive chairman Tim Cook bought a carpet for $18,000 at Istanbul's Grand Bazaar, Turkish media report.

Cook, in Türkiye this week, stopped at a carpet shop during his visit to the historic market and paid about 904,000 lira for the carpet he liked. No details were given about the carpet itself.

The sellers reportedly named the price once they recognised the former Apple chief. Turkish social media is treating it as payback for iPhone prices.

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Russian hackers have been secretly accessing government emails in Kazakhstan and Romania, according to cybersecurity firm ESET.

The hackers used a tool called Cereal, discovered on government Microsoft Exchange servers in both countries in November and December 2025.

The malware steals selected emails and attachments while hiding its commands in normal Outlook traffic.

In Romania, it specifically targeted emails involving NATO and EU addresses.

ESET attributes the operation with high confidence to Turla, a cyberespionage group linked to Russia's FSB.

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A Uzbekistan Pro League match between Gazalkent and Respublika FA turned into a mass brawl on the pitch.

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The best footballer in the world is a Turkish kid from Ankara.

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One of the greatest directors alive is literally a Turkish guy. Let that sink in.

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Türkiye plans at least 6 gigawatts of offshore wind power by 2040, with the first tender due in April 2027.

Energy official Ahmet Özkaya told a COP31 panel in Antalya that four Aegean sites are picked.

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Azerbaijani SOCAR is putting about $120 million into its STAR refinery in Türkiye, adding a new jet fuel unit that frees up capacity for 600,000 more tonnes of diesel a year.

The EPC contract is signed, work starts in the coming days, and the unit should be running in the first quarter of 2029.

The project takes SOCAR investment in Türkiye to $20 billion in total.

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Türkiye has finished preparations to open both the railway border crossing and the Alican road crossing with Armenia, and expects them to open in the near future once Armenian-Azerbaijan peace agreement is reached.

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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk died at just 57 years old.

At 7, he lost his father.

At 12, he entered military school. For the next 12 years, he studied in Selanik, Monastir and Istanbul, eventually graduating from the War Academy in 1905 at the age of 24.

At 24, he became a staff captain.

At 30, he was fighting Italian invasion in Tripoli, thousands of miles from home.

Then came the Balkan Wars. Then the First World War.

At 33, he was commanding troops at Gallipoli, facing one of the largest military campaigns ever.

At 35, he was fighting Russian army on the Eastern Front.

At 37, while the Ottoman Empire was collapsing, he was still commanding troops on the Syrian front.

Think about that. Before turning 38, he had witnessed the collapse of an empire, fought on multiple fronts, watched generations of soldiers die and experienced the devastation of a world war.

And then came 1919.

At 38, with his country under occupation and its army disbanded, he boarded an old ship and landed in Anatolia on May 19.

He resigned from the Ottoman military, putting his entire career behind him, and began organizing a national struggle.

At 39, he opened the Grand National Assembly in Ankara.

At 40, he led the nation through the Battle of Sakarya against Greek invasion.

At 41, he led the Great Offensive, bringing the War of Independence to victory.

At 42, on October 29, 1923, he proclaimed the Republic of Türkiye.

He had spent his childhood overcoming loss, his youth studying, his adulthood fighting wars, and his early forties rebuilding a nation.

57 years. An entire lifetime of struggles, sacrifices and achievements.

He could have lived an ordinary life. Instead, he dedicated his entire existence to a nation and a future generation he would never fully get to see.

Today, we are among those generations.

And we are still living in the country he fought so hard to build.

The greatest way to honor him is to understand what it took to get us here.

We remember you with endless gratitude, respect and longing.

10 November 1938 🇹🇷

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Turkey is probably one of the most tolerant countries out there. Greta Thunberg has said things about Turkey that would get her banned from 90% of countries, yet she's here being welcomed like a celebrity. You really can't make this up.

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Antalya’nın ev sahipliği yaptığı #COP31 Zirvesi’ne katılan dünyaca ünlü iklim aktivisti Greta Thunberg, katılımcıların ilgi odağı oldu. Zirve alanında genç aktivistler ve katılımcılarla bir araya gelen Thunberg, fotoğraf çektirip diyalog kurdu.

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I can understand hatred between groups that actually compete for the same territory or resources. Serbs and Albanians, for example. Fear, insecurity, historical grievances, competition, whatever.

But an American man hating Palestinians? People thousands of miles away who have virtually no power over his life, no comparable political or military power, and aren't even a significant presence in his society? What the fuck are you threatened by? At that point, you're not defending your interests or protecting your community. You're just looking for people to hate. That's pure malice.

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Here's Charlie Kirk making jokes about dead Palestinians.

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Iran has summoned Azerbaijan's ambassador in Tehran after Baku declared 14 Iranian citizens persona non grata.

Iran's foreign ministry spokesman Ismail Baghaei said the move was not a friendly step, and handed Azerbaijan's envoy a formal protest.

The 14 Iranians were declared unwelcome in Azerbaijan.

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Uzbekistan will launch an annual international startup competition in April 2027, with a $5 million prize fund.

The government wants to pull technology ventures from abroad and build the country into a regional startup hub.

Winners working on artificial intelligence, microelectronics and smart technologies are the priority.

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Kazakhstan's emergency ministry wants more Tesla Cybertrucks.

The ministry plans to keep buying the electric pickups for its rescue units, after the first ones joined the fleet.

The Cybertruck's off-road ability and stainless steel body make it a natural fit for mountain rescue work.

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A 35-year-old man from Uzbekistan's Bukhara region escaped from a Russian military camp in Donetsk on a quad bike.

He had gone to St. Petersburg for work, was convicted of hooliganism and jailed for eight years, and says he was tortured in prison to force him to fight against Ukraine.

He signed a contract in November 2025, was sent to the camp days later, and then rode out on a quad bike.