Heavy rain on Tuesday night overwhelmed the infrastructure in Turkey’s Kurdish-majority southeast, causing floods that have claimed 10 lives in Adıyaman and Şanlıurfa. Both provinces have already been devastated by the massive earthquakes of 6 February.
Students of Üsküdar American High School are under fire after giving the Nazi salute to Ulus Jewish High School players during an inter-school football match in Istanbul.
Turkey’s main opposition leader and presidential challenger Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu said the ruling People’s Alliance had come to uphold violence against women, in light of the latest developments in the country’s election frenzy.
Kurds in Turkey lit the first fire of Newroz 2023 on Wednesday in Kurdish-majority Hakkari’s Şemdinli district with three matchsticks that symbolise the Kurdistan Workers’ Party militant Mazlum Doğan, who committed self-immolation to protest prison conditions on Newroz Day in 1982.
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