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  • 3 weeks ago | three.fm | Adam Parsons |In Istanbul

    On the one hand, Ukraine's leader has turned up for peace talks in Turkey with a strong backroom team and a desire to negotiate over the war. From his perspective, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called the bluff of Vladimir Putin. "You said you wanted to talk, so here I am," is the message. But Mr Putin is, for the moment at least, nowhere to be seen, and neither are the members of his very top team.

  • Sep 1, 2024 | telegraph.co.uk | Sophia Yan |In Istanbul

    1 September 2024 • 7:53am Abdulla Turkistanli in his Istanbul bookshop Credit: BRADLEY SECKER In Abdulla Turkistanli’s bookshop on the outskirts of Istanbul, the owner flits between the shelves and pulls down volumes to give to the children of his regular customers. Some of them immediately bury their noses in stories of everything from animals to adventures, while others meander down the aisles. But for Mr Turkistanli, a tall, bearded man with a smile rarely far from his lips, Kutadgu Bilik...

  • Aug 11, 2024 | yahoo.com | Naomi Scherbel-Ball |Sofia Ferreira Santos |Rushdi Abualouf |In Istanbul

    Naomi Scherbel-Ball - BBC News, Sofia Ferreira Santos - BBC News and Rushdi Abualouf - BBC Gaza correspondent, in IstanbulAugust 11, 2024 at 9:51 PM·3 min readHamas has said that any resumption of ceasefire talks about the conflict in Gaza should be based on previous plans rather than holding new rounds of negotiations. Last week, international mediators from Qatar, Egypt and the US urged Israel and Hamas to attend negotiations on a ceasefire and hostage release deal on 15 August.

  • Jul 21, 2024 | observatorial.com | In Istanbul

    The covered market, which is over 600 years old and is visited by millions of visitors, is being transformed into a European supermarket for tourists. Its monumental doors have crossed the centuries, frozen in the era of the sultans. But once you pass through the threshold, one thing becomes clear: under the painted vaults of the Grand Bazaar of Istanbul, ancestral craftsmanship is dying, suffocated by counterfeiting.

  • Apr 13, 2024 | theguardian.com | In Istanbul

    The last of 174 people stranded in cable cars high above a mountain in southern Turkey have been brought to safety, nearly 23 hours after one pod hit a pole and burst open, killing one person and injuring seven when they plummeted to the rocks below. The interior minister, Ali Yerlikaya, announced the successful completion of the rescue operation on X on Saturday afternoon.

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