Author: Turkiye Scoop
Formula One says it is investigating claims of “unacceptable” harassment reported by some fans attending the Austrian Grand Prix weekend. Posts on social media complained of sexist, racist and homophobic slurs at the sold-out event at Spielberg’s Red Bull Ring. In a statement on Sunday, F1 said it had been made aware of “reports that some fans have been subject to completely unacceptable comments by others at the event.” “We have raised this with the promoter and security and will be speaking to those who have reported these incidents and are taking this very seriously,” the statement continued. “This kind…
An activist was removed from Centre Court during the Wimbledon men’s final on Sunday after shouting “Where is Peng Shuai?” and holding up a sign with the same message. Drew Pavlou, an activist who made a similar protest at the Australian Open this year, said he shouted the message during a stoppage in play and was then forcefully removed from the stadium. “I didn’t want to disrupt the actual match itself so I waited to make sure there was a break in the play and then I just basically held up a sign saying ‘Where is Peng Shuai?’” Pavlou told The Associated…
Formula One championship leader Max Verstappen will be chasing his fourth Austrian Grand Prix victory in five years on Sunday as Red Bull seeks to return to the top of the podium at its home race. The team, belonging to the Austrian energy drinks manufacturer that also owns the Red Bull Ring, had a run of six consecutive wins ended by Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz at last weekend’s British Grand Prix. It was a first win for the Spaniard, with Verstappen only seventh after his car was damaged by debris from sister team AlphaTauri. That cost the Dutch driver, who had led…
The recent deal struck between Turkey, Sweden and Finland on the sidelines of the NATO leaders summit in Madrid, addressing Ankara’s security concerns, is valuable in that the sides have displayed the will to find a middle ground; however, certain challenges remain regarding its implementation, experts said. “The trilateral agreement signed in Madrid is a good deal but of course, being a memorandum of understanding, it should be properly implemented in the next weeks,” Italy’s former Ambassador to Turkey Carlo Marsili told Daily Sabah. “As a matter of fact, Sweden and Finland should understand that Turkish concerns on terrorism and…
After a decade of broken ties, the bilateral relations between Turkey and Saudi Arabia are on track for normalization experts say, but they also warn that more is needed in the coming period to propel them to the next level. Speaking to Daily Sabah, Ahmet Uysal, head of the Center for Middle Eastern Strategic Studies (ORSAM), said that bilateral relations between the two regional powers will return to their old track. “The ice was broken during (President Recep Tayyip) Erdoğan’s visit to Saudi Arabia, and we can say that the ice melted during (Saudi Crown Prince) Mohammed bin Salman’s recent…
A terrorist suspect who allegedly ordered the deadly 2013 attack in the Turkish town of Reyhanlı was arrested after being extradited from the United States. Mehmet Gezer was extradited by the U.S. to Turkey and handed over to authorities after he arrived at Istanbul Airport on June 30. Gezer was taken to Ankara where a court ordered his arrest on charges of “deliberate killing” and “destroying the unity of the state and the integrity of the country.” In addition to the deaths in the attack near Turkey’s border with Syria, the bombing in May 2013 damaged 912 buildings, 891 workplaces…
Moscow warned on Thursday that the U.S. “hype” over WNBA star Brittney Griner, held in Russia on drug smuggling charges, will not help her case after President Joe Biden spoke out against her detention. Griner – held in Russia since February and facing up to a decade behind bars on charges of smuggling cannabis vape cartridges into the country – is due to appear in court later on Thursday. “The hype and working on the public, with all the love for this genre among modern politicians, currently only disturb (the court process),” Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said, according to…
Palestine has given the bullet that killed Al-Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh to American forensic experts, taking a step toward resolving a standoff with Israel over the investigation into her death, the Palestinian Authority said Saturday. Abu Akleh, a veteran correspondent who was well known throughout the Arab world, was fatally shot while covering an Israeli military raid on May 11 in the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. The Palestinians, along with Abu Akleh’s colleagues who were with her at the time, say she was killed by Israeli fire. The Israeli army says that she was caught in the crossfire…
APalestinian woman died Saturday in Israeli detention, according to a local nongovernmental organization (NGO). Saadia Farajallah, 68, breathed her last breath in the Israeli Dimon prison near Haifa in northern Israel, the Palestinian Prisoner Society said in a statement. The circumstances of her death, however, were not yet clear. Farajallah, a mother of eight from the town of Idna in the occupied West Bank, was detained by Israeli forces in December 2021 while she was near the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron city. The Palestinian Authority held Israel responsible for the death of the Palestinian detainee. Farajallah’s death “was the…
North Korea on Friday suggested its COVID-19 outbreak started in people who had contact with “alien things coming by wind and other climate phenomena and balloons” flown from South Korea, a highly questionable claim that appeared to be an attempt to hold its opponent responsible amid escalating tensions over its nuclear program. Activists for years have flown balloons across the border to distribute hundreds of thousands of propaganda leaflets critical of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, and North Korea has often expressed fury at the activists and at South Korea’s leadership for not stopping them. Global health authorities say the…