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Gisele Pelicot back in French court for appeal trial 'ordeal'
AFP, Published on 06/10/2025
» NîMES (FRANCE) - Frenchwoman Gisele Pelicot, whose ex-husband recruited dozens of strangers online to sexually assault and rape her while drugged, returns to court on Monday for an appeal trial triggered by the bid of one man to overturn his conviction.
Kurdish artist tops World Music Chart
Life, John Clewley, Published on 07/05/2024
» The top spot on the Transglobal World Music Chart for May 2024 is held by Turkish-born Kurdish singer, composer and instrumentalist Aynur Dogan. She infuses Kurdish folk music with mainly Western music, and has collaborated Yo-Yo Ma and The Silk Road Ensemble among others.
Mystery endures in 2013 Paris murder of Kurd activists
AFP, Published on 27/12/2022
» PARIS - The unsolved 2013 murder of three Kurdish women activists in Paris has been an open wound for their community, with lingering frustration over France's failure to bring those responsible to justice.
'Where are the mackerel?' Alarm as Bosphorus fish stocks crash
AFP, Published on 25/11/2022
» ISTANBUL - Despondent Sunday anglers watch crestfallen as a trawler winches an enormous net out of the waters of the Bosphorus.
'Murder every day': Turkish women fearful after treaty exit
AFP, Published on 24/11/2021
» ISTANBUL - Turkish women feel more vulnerable and legally unprotected since Turkey withdrew from a convention that activists argued helped deter male violence, according to women's campaign groups.
Chinese dissident artist defies Beijing in Italian show
AFP, Published on 13/11/2021
» BRESCIA: Exhibiting a torture instrument as an innocent rocking chair, Chinese dissident artist Badiucao mocks the propaganda of Beijing in a new show -- while appropriating its codes.
Wander through the desert
Life, John Clewley, Published on 28/04/2020
» The Transglobal World Music Chart for April features one of the most popular of the so-called desert blues bands of West Africa, with Tamikrest in the No.1 slot.
33 Turkish soldiers killed in Syria's Idlib
AFP, Published on 28/02/2020
» ANKARA - At least 33 Turkish soldiers were killed in Syria's Idlib province after an air strike blamed on Damascus, prompting condemnation from Washington and a UN warning on the rapidly-rising risk of escalation.
5 Turkish tourists injured in Phuket road accident
Achadthaya Chuenniran, Published on 01/12/2019
» PHUKET: Five Turkish tourists and a Thai driver were injured when a van they were travelling was hit by a pick-up truck on a road in Kathu district of this southen island resort province on Saturday afternoon.
'I cannot stay silent': Turkish rappers get political
AFP, Published on 13/09/2019
» ISTANBUL - A 15-minute rap song has taken Turkey by storm, touching a nerve in the polarised society at a time when artists are finding a voice after years of stifled dissent.