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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.
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.
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.
'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.
Turkey jails mine bosses over 2014 disaster that killed 301
AFP, Published on 11/07/2018
» ISTANBUL - A Turkish court on Wednesday handed jail terms of up to 22 years to five top managers convicted of negligence over Turkey's worst ever mining disaster, which claimed hundreds of lives.
Nine migrants, mainly children, drown off Turkish coast
AFP, Published on 03/06/2018
» ISTANBUL: Nine migrants, including six children, seeking to head to Europe in a speedboat drowned on Sunday when the vessel sank off Turkey's Mediterranean coast, state media reports said.
Erdogan says Uber 'finished' in Turkey
AFP, Published on 03/06/2018
» ISTANBUL - Uber faces being banned in Turkey after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the ride hailing app was "finished" on Saturday following an intense lobbying campaign from Istanbul taxi drivers.