Author: Nimet Kivanc

Frankfurt, Paris (22/10 – 20)  Many tourists consider traveling to Europe during the summer months of June – September, but autumn’s cooler temperature, colorful leaves and diverse culinary choices can also charm visitors of the blue continent. Here are several events and attractions you can visit across Europe during autumn. 1. Amsterdam, Netherlands Amsterdam offers a wide array of activities during autumn, such as Amsterdam Marathon, an annual marathon in Amsterdam in the Netherlands since 1975. There is also Amsterdam Dance Event, held between Oct. 18 and 22, is the largest electronic club festival in the world but also the…

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Kazakhstanis have become much less likely to purchase foreign currency. NUR.KZ journalists learned how much the country’s foreign exchange market sank compared to previous periods. Wishing to keep their savings, Kazakhstanis resort to various financial instruments. Some, for example, prefer to keep money on deposits in banks. According to analysts, this method turned out to be one of the most effective. Others, for this purpose, acquire foreign currency, which in some cases may be more stable than the tenge. However, there has been a noticeable decline in the foreign exchange market. According to the National Bank of the Republic of…

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Despite predictions to the contrary by polls, the opposition and most Western media, Turkey’s incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, after 20 years in power, was reelected with a 52 percent absolute majority with a turnout of around 85 percent.  Many had hoped for a radical change to a supposedly more democratic and liberal governance. These expectations were shared and amplified by vocal opponents to the Erdogan administration, often prominent voices of the Turkish diaspora in Europe. But these predictions were largely based on wishful thinking. It is true that Erdogan-friendly media dominate the public space in Turkey. The advantage of being able…

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In Türkiye, since 2015, Pride events have been systematically banned in the country, with events such as picnics and film screenings even being targeted with bans during Pride Month. The arrests follow Amnesty International warning of the “brazen and deepening crackdown” LGBTQ+ people face in Türkiye. “Nils Muižnieks, Amnesty International’s Europe director, said: “As thousands take to the streets of Istanbul and Izmir in defiance, they risk facing tear gas and rubber bullets. “The authorities should allow LGBTI Pride Marches in Türkiye to go ahead safely and without interference.” On Twitter, participants of the Pride event spoke out about attending the march…

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The recent ‘Qatargate’ scandal in the European Parliament, which has seen MEPs & at least one former former MEP languishing in Belgian jail cells, has re-opened another serious issue – one that is institutionalised in Brussels – that of the “fake NGO”. The fake NGO is becoming a major problem in Brussels. Typically, such a body would purport to represent human rights interests: it is always going to be difficult for a Member of the European Parliament (MEP), for example, to say “no” to an approach by a human rights NGO – but easy for NGO to use the cover…

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The EDB (Eurasian Development Bank) expects the GDP growth in Tajikistan to reach 7.9 percent in 2023, which is an upward revision from the 6.5 percent predicted in November 2022, Trend reports. The bank’s analysts anticipate that the economic growth in Tajikistan will be around 7 percent year-on-year in the last quarter of 2023. This rate is slightly lower than the current rate (8.2 percent in 1Q2023) due to a decrease in money transfers and a statistical effect from strong activity in the third and fourth quarters of 2022. Furthermore, the EDB predicts a decline in GDP growth to 5.8 percent in…

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ASTANA. KAZINFORM – Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan Roman Vassilenko and Luc Devigne, Deputy Managing Director for Russia, Eastern Partnership, Central Asia and OSCE of the European External Action Service chaired the 20th meeting of «The Republic of Kazakhstan – European Union» Cooperation Committee in political configuration. Representatives of Kazakh ministries and agencies, various directorates of the European Commission, as well as representatives of the diplomatic corps of EU member states accredited in Kazakhstan attended the event, Kazinform cites the press service of the Kazakh MFA. The main focus of the discussion was on further strengthening the dialogue…

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YEREVAN, May 23. /ARKA/. The main mission of the opposition is to prepare for mass acts of disobedience, said Ishkhan Saghatelyan, an MP from Hayastan alliance and representative of the Supreme Body of ARF/Dashnaktsutyun party. Saghatelyan’s remarks come after Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan told a Monday press conference that Armenia was ready to recognize Nagorno-Karabakh as part of Azerbaijan if Baku guarantees the security of its ethnic Armenian population. “Our mission is to form through a new wave, with a new force in Armenia, Artsakh and the Diaspora a popular resistance, to prepare Armenian citizens for mass popular disobedience,”…

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NURDAGI, Turkey — Near the center of this small town in southern Turkey, a father and his boys carried doors and windows they had salvaged from an abandoned apartment building to a waiting truck, glass crunching under their feet. The street, once lined with multistory buildings, was now defined by flat rubble lots. At the end of the road, a functioning gas station still stood. Eren Yaka, an 18-year-old attendant there, had just taken part in an election for the first time, giving his vote to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. “We are with the reis,” he said, referring to Erdogan with…

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Tayfun, the country’s longest-range missile, is tested in the Black Sea province of Rize. Turkish missile producer Roketsan has successfully tested the short-range ballistic missile Tayfun (Typhoon) in the country’s Black Sea province Rize. The test of the Tayfun Short Range Ballistic Missile system was carried out on Tuesday at 0644 local time (0344GMT). Ismail Demir, the head of Türkiye’s Defense Presidency, congratulated the team involved in the project. “We successfully carried out the new test launch of our Typhoon missile. I congratulate everyone who contributed, especially Roketsan,” Demir said. Tayfun is Türkiye’s longest-range missile so far. The firm previously…

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