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Quick Read Summary is AI generated, newsroom reviewed. Congress’s Shashi Tharoor criticized Kerala’s Rs 10 crore aid to Turkey after the 2023 earthquake, citing its support for Pakistan against India. CPM’s John Brittas defended the state, pointing to the Central government’s assistance to Turkey Congress’s Shashi Tharoor, who is also …

New Delhi: In the wake of recent geopolitical developments that shifted Indian traveler sentiment dramatically, there has been a sharp 42 per cent decline in visa applications to Turkey and Azerbaijan, a report said on Tuesday. As both countries publicly expressed support for Pakistan, Indian travelers responded swiftly. Within just …

Turkey’s drug squad has destroyed 30,000 marijuana plants being secretly grown in a vast terraced garden by the Tigris River that is on the UN Cultural Heritage list, media reports said on Sunday. In a joint sunrise operation involving divers and boats backed by helicopters and drones, drug enforcement agents …

New Delhi: A day after its security clearance was revoked by the Centre citing national security reasons, Turkey-based aviation firm Celebi has approached the Delhi High Court and challenged the decision. The Centre’s move had come in the wake of Turkey’s support for Pakistan during hostilities with India after Operation …

Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced the names of officials who will represent Russia in the renewed negotiations with Ukraine, set to take place in Turkey today, TASS reported. Kremlin aide Vladimir Medinsky will lead the Russian delegation, which will be joined by Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin, Deputy …

The PKK’s historic announcement Monday about ending its armed struggle is the result of months of shuttle diplomacy to end the decades-old Kurdish conflict that has cost tens of thousands of lives.  After a 10-year hiatus in which all contacts with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) were frozen, things …

New Delhi: As the world mourned the loss of innocent lives in a terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif raked up the ‘Kashmir issue’ at the heels of the tragedy during his meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara. At least 26 …

Ankara: A total of 175,512 Syrians have voluntarily returned to their country from Turkey since December 9 last year, Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said. According to Yerlikaya on Wednesday, the number of Syrians who have returned from Turkey since 2017 has now reached 915,515. These returns, comprising 33,730 families, …

More than 250 passengers on a London-Mumbai Virgin Atlantic flight, many of them Indians, are stuck in Turkey’s Diyarbakir airport for over 39 hours now. An airline spokesperson has said the VS358 flight from London to Mumbai on 2nd April was cancelled due to an “urgent medical diversion” to Diyarbakir airport. …

Saturday saw some of the biggest anti-government protests in Turkey since the arrest of opposition leader and mayor of Istanbul, Ekrem Imamoglu, less than two weeks ago. Ozgur Ozel, the leader of Imamoglu’s Republican People’s Party (CHP), who organised Saturday’s demonstration in Istanbul, claimed on X that there were 2.2 …