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Martínez Rejects Turkish Offers, Stays At Villa

Martínez Rejects Turkish Offers, Stays At Villa

September 2, 2025 1:10 pm

Emiliano Martínez has turned down all offers from Turkish clubs, including a €22.5 million bid from Galatasaray, opting to remain at Aston Villa. This decision follows the collapse of his potential move to Manchester United. 

Martínez had agreed to personal terms with United, and a swap deal involving Jadon Sancho was proposed. However, Sancho declined a permanent move to Villa, agreeing only to a loan deal. Consequently, United pursued other options and signed Senne Lammens from Royal Antwerp for £18.2 million.

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Despite interest from Turkish clubs, Martínez …

Five Turkish Defense Firms Rank Among Global Top 100

Five Turkish Defense Firms Rank Among Global Top 100

September 1, 2025 7:40 pm

Five Turkish defense companies have secured places in the 2025 Defense News Top 100, underscoring Türkiye’s growing influence in the global defense industry.

Aselsan led the group, ranking 43rd with $3.54 billion in revenue. Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) followed at 47th, with Roketsan at 71st, Asfat at 78th, and MKE at 80th.

Several firms showed significant upward momentum. TAI climbed three spots from last year, ASFAT rose 16 places, and MKE gained four.

Haluk Görgün, head of Türkiye’s Defense Industries Presidency, praised the achievement as proof of the nation’s long-term strategy. “Our sustainable growth strategy is not only a guarantee …

Turkish Drone Strike Kills 3 Civilians In Iraq Refugee Camp

Turkish Drone Strike Kills 3 Civilians In Iraq Refugee Camp

June 6, 2021 7:47 am

A Kurdish lawmaker has revealed that at least 3 civilians were killed yesterday in a Turkish drone attack on a refugee camp in northern Iraq, an area Turkish President recently threatened to ‘clean up’.

Rashad Galali, a Kurdish MP from Makhmur, told AFP the strike targeted “a kindergarten near a school” in the UN-supported camp that houses Kurdish refugees from Turkey.

‘Three civilians were killed and two wounded,’ he narrated.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that earlier this week Erdogan compared Makhmur to the Mount Qandil region along Iraq’s eastern frontier, where Turkey’s outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) …

Idlib Rare Calm In Syria's Idlib After Ceasefire Deal

Rare Calm In Syria’s Idlib After Ceasefire Deal

March 6, 2020 4:58 pm

Syria’s war-ravaged northwest woke up to relative calm Friday, its skies free of warplanes for the first day in months, following a Russian-Turkish ceasefire deal.

The agreement raised hopes of an end to one of the bloodiest phases in the conflict but residents in Idlib were sceptical this deal would last longer than previous ones.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group and AFP correspondents in Idlib province said the truce that came into force at midnight appeared to be holding.

Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman reported “a complete absence of regime and Russian warplanes in the Idlib airspace”.…

Boeing To Compensate Turkish Airlines

January 3, 2020 8:51 am

Turkish Airlines has reached an agreement with Boeing over compensation for the financial impact relating to the grounding of the 737 Max. Flight Global reported that the carrier was intending to introduce 75 Max jets to its fleet, comprising 65 Max 8s and 10 of the larger Max 9. But while it has received 12 of the re-engined aircraft, deliveries had been held up by the worldwide grounding of the type in March.

Turkish Airlines has revealed that it, “came to an agreement” with Boeing concerning, “compensation for certain losses” caused by the grounding as well as the non-delivery of …

FG Investigating ‘Turkish Support For Boko Haram’

November 26, 2019 6:20 am

A report that Turkey is supplying sophisticated weapons to Nigeria’s terror group, Boko Haram, is receiving attention at very high strategic level of the federal government, the Defence Headquarters told THISDAY yesterday.

Egyptian Television, Ten.tv, cited by CBN News Channel, had recently reported that Turkey was a major supplier of arms to Boko Haram even as Turkish Airlines had also been accused in the past of shipping arms to Nigeria.

Saying the reported supply of arms to Boko Haram by Turkey was a serious national security issue, Defence Headquarters spokesman, Brigadier-General Onyema Nwachukwu, said the matter was receiving attention at …

Turkish Soldier Killed In Syrian Kurd Attack - Minister

Turkish Soldier Killed In Syrian Kurd Attack – Minister

October 20, 2019 6:26 am
A Turkish soldier was killed and another wounded in an attack by Syrian Kurdish forces on Sunday despite a ceasefire deal brokered by the United States, the defense ministry said.

“One of our heroic comrades fell martyr and another was wounded after anti-tank and small arms fire by… terrorists during their reconnaissance and surveillance mission” in the Tal Abyad border area, the ministry said in a statement.

The army returned fire in self-defense, it added. Turkey had agreed to suspend its Syria offensive for five days to allow Kurdish forces to withdraw from a safe zone along the border.

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