CHILD LABOR TRAGEDIES FUEL TENSIONS IN PARLIAMENT
The deaths of child laborers enrolled in Vocational Training Centers (MESEM) triggered tense exchanges in the Planning and Budget Commission.
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CONSTRUCTION OF TWO SHIPS BEGINS FOR PORTUGUESE NAVY
Construction of the supply and logistics support vessels for the Portuguese Navy began at Istanbul Ada Shipyard on Nov. 17.
TOYGUN EOTS INTEGRATED INTO KIZILELMA FOR FIRST-EVER EMBEDDED UAV USE
Aselsan’s Low-Observable Electro-Optical Targeting System (EOTS), known as Toygun, has been integrated into the fuselage of a Bayraktar Kızılelma, marking the first time globally that embedded EOTS technology has been implemented on an unmanned fighter aircraft, aviation company Baykar said.
PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION INTO C-130 CRASH WILL TAKE TWO MONTHS
The tail broke off first, and then the fuselage split into three pieces, according to preliminary findings in the C-130 transport plane that crashed in Georgia on Nov. 11, Defense Minister Yaşar Güler said.
ARM WRESTLING WITH AUSTRALIA ENDS WITH ANTALYA HOSTING NEXT COP
Months of competition between Turkey and Australia has come to an end, as Turkey became next year’s host of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP31). Australia will chair the summit, while discussions will focus on the Pacific, according to the compromise reached on Nov. 19, hours before the end of this year's summit in Brazil.
ERBAKAN CALLS FOR END OF LAST LEGAL SHIELD FOR WOMEN
Islamist YRP Chair Fatih Erbakan has promised to repeal Law 6284, the main legal safeguard protecting women from violence and the only remaining protection after Turkey withdrew from the landmark Istanbul Convention in 2021.
DEMİRTAŞ: “NO ONE SPEAKS FOR ME”
Jailed former HDP co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş rejected remarks by former Parliament Speaker Bülent Arınç suggesting Demirtaş wished to meet President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and tell him he held no resentment. After a visit to Edirne Prison, Arınç said Demirtaş wanted to tell Erdoğan, “I hold no grudge against you.” Demirtaş responded with a handwritten note, saying he never expressed such a thought. “What troubles me most is being associated with words and ideas I never hinted at,” he wrote.
NATIONALIST PARTIES PUSH BACK AGAINST İMRALI VISIT DEBATE
İYİ Party Chair Müsavat Dervişoğlu and Zafer Party Chair Ümit Özdağ directed sharp criticism at the MHP as political tension rose over whether a parliamentary commission should visit İmralı Island.
MORE CONTRADICTIONS SURFACE IN ISTANBUL INDICTMENT
Inconsistencies continue to emerge in the Istanbul Municipality indictment, fuelling CHP attacks on the charge sheet and the notification to the Court of Cassation that there may be grounds to close the main opposition party.
ÖZEL ESCALATES ATTACKS ON ERDOĞAN
Rallying frequently since the arrest of CHP’s presidential candidate and Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu in March, CHP Chair Özgür Özel has continued directing sharp criticism at President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in each major political debate.
ZEHİRLENME/POISONING
In Turkish, zehirlenme or poisoning is one of those words that lands with a sting. Its genealogy stretches back through Ottoman Turkish to Persian zahr (poison), but the word has given birth to colorful idioms: zehir saçmak (to scatter venom), zehir zemberek sözler (barbed words that blister on impact), ağzı zehir gibi (a tongue sharp enough to wound).
BETTING SCANDAL IN FOOTBALL INVOLVES PLAYERS
The Turkish Football Federation (TFF) has provisionally referred 1,024 footballers to the Professional Football Disciplinary Committee on grounds of betting and has published a list of their names.