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Sunday, November 18, 2018

Americas Trump visits fire-wracked California as 76 killed President Donald Trump took a helicopter tour Saturday over the Northern California landscape scorched by a killer wildfire. A full cover of haze and the smell of smoke greeted... More
Travel Snow-covered Uzungöl fascinates visitors Uzungöl, which is located in Trabzon's Çaykara district and considered among Turkey's most important tourism centers, was all white with effective snowfall that lasted for two days. More
Asia Pacific Australian activist begins 727-km walk for Palestinian independence Australian human rights activist John Salisbury started a 727-kilometer (452-mile) walk from Melbourne to Adelaide to support an initiative to officially recognize the State... More
Health Long-time shift work causes sleeping disorders, experts say Shift working for long periods of time causes sleeping disorders since it disrupts the biological order of the human body, experts warn. Shift work has been proven to lead... More
Tech Report warns e-shoppers of data theft ahead of Black Friday As Black Friday — one of the busiest shopping days of the year with its famous discount opportunities — is approaching, the Moscow-based cyber-security company... More
Sports Turkish wrestler bags bronze in wrestling championship in Romania Turkish wrestler Enes Uslu on Saturday won a bronze medal in the Senior U23 World Wrestling Championships being held in Romania. In the Romanian capital of Bucharest, Uslu... More
Turkey THY plane evacuated after ‘explosive’ joke A passenger on board an Istanbul-bound Turkish Airlines flight was arrested Friday for causing the plane to be evacuated after joking about having explosives in his carry-on. The... More
Tennis Zverev denies Federer shot at 100th title in London Roger Federer will end the year tantalisingly short of his 100th career title after the king of men's tennis was forced to bow to young prince Alexander Zverev at the ATP... More
Europe Suicide bomber blows herself up near police station in Russia A young woman blew herself up on Saturday near a police checkpoint in the Chechen capital Grozny in southern Russia but nobody else was killed or injured, RIA news agency... More
Europe Greek police, protesters clash after march to mark 1973 uprising A march to the U.S. Embassy in Greece held Saturday for the anniversary of a fatally suppressed 1973 student uprising was mostly peaceful, while police officers and anarchists... More
Syrian Crisis 40 civilians killed in US-led coalition airstrikes in eastern Syria At least 40 people, mostly women and children, were killed Saturday by U.S.-led airstrikes on the last pocket held by Daesh terror group in eastern Syria, a war monitor and... More

Life Commander-in-Crap: Trump toilet brushes for sale on Etsy A pretty controversial product has been put on sale on Etsy. With orange "hair" bristling in the air, Donald Trump-themed toilet brushes fresh from New Zealand made headlines... More
Tennis Zverev beats Djokovic in 2 sets to win ATP Finals title Alexander Zverev emphatically announced his arrival at the top of the men's game by beating Novak Djokovic 6-4, 6-3 to win his first ATP Finals title on Sunday. The 21-year-old... More
Americas 'US made no final conclusion on Khashoggi murder' The U.S. government has not reached a final conclusion over the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, the State Department said Saturday following reports that the CIA had held the... More
Asia Pacific Pacific summit ends with no final communique An acrimonious meeting of world leaders in Papua New Guinea failed to agree Sunday on a final communique, highlighting widening divisions between global powers the U.S. and... More
Portrait Stolen Picasso painting worth 800,000 euros reappears in Romania six years later A painting believed to be "Tête d'Arlequin" by Pablo Picasso stolen in 2012 from Rotterdam's Kunsthal museum has turned up in Romania, prosecutors said on Sunday. In one... More
Europe More than 400 hurt during protest against rising fuel taxes in France More than 400 people were hurt, 14 seriously, in a day and night of "yellow vest" protests over rising fuel price hikes around France that claimed one life, Interior Minister... More
Football Sweden beats Turkey 1-0 in UEFA Nations League The Turkish National Football Team was defeated by Sweden and relegated to League C in UEFA Nations League on Saturday. Sweden managed to beat Turkey at home with a single... More
MidEast 5 killed, 16 wounded by car bomb in Iraq's Tikrit A car bomb blast killed at least five people and wounded 16 others in the Iraqi city of Tikrit on Sunday, police and medical sources said. The blast set nearly a dozen... More
Motorsports $German teen driver Floersch fractures spine in horrific Macau GP airborne crash$ German teen driver Floersch fractures spine in horrific Macau GP airborne crash A 17-year-old female teenage driver suffered a fractured spine when her car flew off the track in a horrifying crash at the Formula Three Macau Grand Prix on Sunday. Van... More
Energy Turkey reiterates warning against unilateral Greek natural gas search off Cyprus Turkey won't accept a unilateral gas search in the Eastern Mediterranean that presents a threat to a solution in Cyprus, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hami Aksoy said Sunday. "ExxonMobil's... More
Europe May says will not allow Tory leadership challenge as Brexit talks resume with Brussels British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Sunday toppling her would risk delaying Brexit and she would not let talk of a leadership challenge distract her from a critical... More

Columns

Washington needs an exit strategy for its YPG policy Kılıç Buğra Kanat The same day the congressional elections took place in the U.S., the State Department announced that it would offer... More

Where will Khashoggi's killers stand trial? Burhanettin Duran Saudi Arabia's deepest concern is that one of the suspects could tell Turkish authorities exactly who gave the... More

Turkish-US relations tied to the Syrian quagmire İhsan Aktaş As Turkey now works and cooperates with almost all related powers in the Syrian crisis, no one would like to push... More

Brexit turns into a political dilemma Sadık Ünay The complicated Brexit process may be on course to claim the political life of a second British prime minister... More

The century-long 'endless' war Kerem Alkin Although commemoration events were organized in Paris for the 100th year of Armistice Day, which ended World War... More

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Opinion

The Taj Mahal should not fall victim to chauvinism Teoman Ertuğrul Tulun In my article "Crucial Choice for Indian Democracy" published on Jan. 1, I referred to the demolition of the Babri... More

US-Gulf relations: The past, present and future Feyza Gümüşlüoğlu The Gulf states are aware of the changing global balance of power and working to develop closer relations with... More

Cultural hegemony in Turkey Oğuzhan Bilgin Erdal Beşikçioğlu, a famous actor, stated in an interview in the Monday edition of the Turkish Sabah newspaper,... More

Instability in Syria escalates as US continues to back the YPG Markar Esayan For Turkey, the division of Syria into three areas and a proxy terrorist group gaining statehood in the north is... More

An Ottoman pasha's foresight on today's golden age of multinational corporations Ferhat Küçük The Tunisian Hayreddin Pasha, a distinguished Ottoman statesmen and intellectual in the late 19th century, was... More

Jamal Khashoggi and the midterm elections Farhan Mujahid Chak U.S. President Donald Trump has suffered a significant bruising, if not a battering, as a result of the midterm... More

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