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Forgotten churches, an apocalyptic car show room, barren boutiques and tower blocks being reclaimed by nature. These haunting photographs capture the once-booming beach resort of Varosha, located on coastline known in bygone times as the Riviera of the Eastern Mediterranean. Varosha lies in a UN buffer zone that separates Turkish-occupied northern Cyprus and the Republic … Read more
Longest superyacht of its kind is launched in Turkey boasting a beach club and six bedrooms for family’s ‘home at sea’ The 180ft Al Waab II is longest steel and aluminium yacht below 500 gross tonnes ever built, designers say The superyacht can sleep up to 12 people and was made for owner who wanted … Read more
A former British Army officer who trained White Helmets volunteers in Syria and died in mysterious circumstances in Istanbul last year was not murdered in an elaborate plot but took his own life, a BBC probe has found. James Le Mesurier, 48, who served in Northern Ireland and Kosovo, threw himself off the roof of … Read more
A former British Army officer who trained White Helmets volunteers in Syria and died in mysterious circumstances in Istanbul last year was not murdered in an elaborate plot but took his own life, a BBC probe has found. James Le Mesurier, 48, who served in Northern Ireland and Kosovo, threw himself off the roof of … Read more
A young girl has been pulled out of the rubble of a collapsed apartment building alive four days after a deadly earthquake hit Turkey and Greece. The four-year-old girl, Ayda Gezgin, was taken to hospital in an ambulance in the Turkish coastal city of Izmir today, wrapped in a thermal blanket, amid the sound of … Read more
A three-year-old girl who had been trapped for three days under the rubble of a deadly earthquake in a Turkish coastal city has miraculously survived. Firefighter Muammer Celik found Elif Perincek lying motionless, covered in dust, and he asked a colleague for a body bag. But as Mr Celik extended his arm to wipe her … Read more
Rescuers search into the night for survivors in Turkey after a powerful 7.0-magnitude earthquake sent people fleeing from their homes on Greek islands – leaving 22 dead and nearly 800 injured. Search and rescue teams dug through heavy blocks of concrete desperately trying to find survivors after the catastrophic earthquake. Turkey and Greece were battered by … Read more
Rescuers search into the night for survivors in Turkey after a powerful 7.0-magnitude earthquake sent people fleeing from their homes on Greek islands – leaving 22 dead and nearly 800 injured. Search and rescue teams dug through heavy blocks of concrete desperately trying to find survivors after the catastrophic earthquake. Turkey and Greece were battered by … Read more
‘Kurdish’ Terrorist blows himself up in Turkey after police chase through city on the Syrian border Militant detonated device following police chase near Turkey’s border with Syria Explosion occurred in the town of Iskenderun in the southern province of Hatay Police had been trying to stop two people inside a vehicle at a road block By … Read more
Paragliding for couch potatoes! Daredevil takes to the skies on a SOFA and flies around watching TV in his slippers in crazy stunt without a safety harness Hasan Kaval, 29, from Izmir, Turkey, is a paragliding pilot and instructor He took to the skies on the sofa with the TV on in Oludeniz in southwest … Read more