Ankara, Turkey | Xinhua | Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday offered to mediate between the warring parties in Sudan to hold peace talks. Erdogan held separate phone talks with General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, chairman of the Sovereignty Council of Sudan, and Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, deputy chairman of the …
Read More »Putin may attend nuclear power plant inauguration in Turkey in April
Ankara, Turkey | Xinhua | Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin may travel to Türkiye on April 27 to attend the inauguration ceremony of the Akkuyu nuclear power plant. Erdogan told news channel ATV-A Haber in an interview that Putin may either travel …
Read More »Finnish president to visit Turkey for NATO bid
Helsinki, Finland | Xinhua | Finnish President Sauli Niinisto said on Wednesday that during his upcoming visit to Türkiye he would acknowledge reception of the Turkish response to the ratification of Finland’s NATO membership. Contact with the Turkish presidential administration has been frequent since last spring, Niinisto said, and has …
Read More »Turkey eathquake: What if it was Uganda?
If buildings can collapse on their own in calm Kampala, what would happen if a 7.0+ earthquake visited Uganda? COMMENT | Samson Tinka | A magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck Turkey’s southeast and neighboring Syria on February 6, killing more than 47,000 people and leaving more than a million people homeless along …
Read More »Turkey is challenging China’s reign in African construction sector
China’s outright dominance of Africa’s infrastructure sector is under threat as Turkish construction firms begin to make inroads on the continent to deliver large-scale projects on budget and on time Nairobi, Kenya | BIRD AGENCY – Seth Onyango | Turkish construction firms are closing in on their Chinese counterparts in Africa’s …
Read More »Egypt enters world’s top ten emerging domestic logistics markets
A booming startup ecosystem, industrial parks and port development are lifting Egypt’s investment attractiveness and global development rankings Cairo, Egypt | BIRD AGENCY | Egypt has edged out Turkey from the list of the world’s top ten largest domestic logistics markets, a new Index shows. A vibrant and fast-growing start-up …
Read More »Turkey-Armenia border gate reopens after 30 years for quake aid
Ankara, Turkey | Xinhua | A border gate between Turkey and Armenia has been opened for the first time in 30 years for the passage of humanitarian assistance for victims of the devastating earthquakes hitting southern Turkey, the state-run Anadolu News Agency reported Saturday. An Armenian delegation with five trucks of aid …
Read More »Chinese companies receive attention at Turkish trade expo
Istanbul, Turkey | XINHUA | Chinese companies from a wide array of sectors have received “intense attention” at an international trade expo being held in Türkiye’s biggest city Istanbul, a Turkish business leader said on Friday. A total of 32 Chinese companies and business groups have participated the Independent Industrialists …
Read More »Expert sees U.S. manipulations, speculations behind global food insecurity
Istanbul, Turkey | Xinhua |– The global food insecurity issue has been consciously fabricated and speculated by the United States to pursue its own hegemonic policies, a retired Turkish admiral told Xinhua in a recent interview. “It appears there are some manipulations to strengthen and mobilize the economies of big …
Read More »Sudan as coordinator for Black Sea Grain Initiative
New York, USA | Xinhua | UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday announced the appointment of Amir Mahmoud Abdulla of Sudan as the world body’s coordinator for the Black Sea Grain Initiative. Abdulla succeeds Frederick Kenney of the United States who was on loan by the International Maritime Organization as …
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