Turkish technology startup U Live has been a huge success and is growing day by day, providing fitness classes that reach the user to exercise anytime and anywhere with ease. From the studio in Istanbul, the company broadcasts daily training sessions and also gives subscribers access to a library of recorded exercises. The pandemic has propelled fitness studio Urban Riders into the digital world, which its founders say is the company’s future.
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The Turkish Ministry of Defense said, “Neutralizing” nine members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in two operations in northern Iraq.
“Our operations will continue until the last terrorist is neutralized,” the ministry said on Twitter, adding that the army had targeted seven members of the group.
In a separate report, Anadolu Agency reported that the Turkish intelligence service “neutralised” two members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq.
Turkey regularly launches air strikes in neighboring Iraq as part of its crackdown on militants of the party, which launched an insurgency once morest the Turkish state in 1984, leading to a conflict that has killed more than 40,000 people. Turkey, the United States and the European Union consider it a terrorist group.
Turkish Environment Minister Murat Murom said on Friday that Turkey refused to enter a Brazilian ship in its territorial waters that was initially scheduled to be dismantled at a shipyard in the west of the country.
The Turkish minister said, “It was decided to cancel the conditional approval given to the ship “Nay São Paulo” and the ship will not be allowed to enter Turkish territorial waters.”
He explained that the Brazilian authorities did not fulfill the conditions requested by Turkey, such as conducting a second inspection of the ship and handing over a “list of dangerous materials” to the Turkish Ministry, stressing that “we have not yet allowed any measures that would harm our environment or our people.”
The first announcement of the dismantling of the former Brazilian military aircraft carrier in the port of Aliaga on the western side of Turkey, sparked sharp reactions from non-governmental organizations, and the opposition, which expressed fears of land and sea pollution with asbestos.
The environmental protection group “Children of Nature” (Duyanin Chokoklari) expressed in a tweet on Twitter its satisfaction with the decision. “We have stopped the poisonous ship São Paulo,” she said in a statement. This ship was stopped because we were together and determined.”
This group was one of several NGOs that called for a demonstration once morest the docking of the ship in Turkey.
Asbestos, known to be a carcinogen, was banned in Turkey in 2006, but workers in a number of sectors, including ship-breaking, are still exposed to it, according to Turkish media.
The ship’s fate has turned into a test of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s commitment to the environment ahead of next year’s elections.
Opinion polls suggest that environmental issues might be decisive for the millions of young Turks who will vote for the first time in 2023.
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Hana Zagorova, who is considered a singing legend in the Czech Republic today, passed away at the age of 75.
The famous singer presented regarding 900 songs during her long career and won many awards and sold more than 10 million copies of her work, and also participated in a number of films as well as
Zagorova was born on the 6th of September 1946 and grew up in the Ostrava region. Father Joseph Zakoura was a civil engineer, and mother Edeltroda was a teacher.
Appearing on former socialist East German television and singing several songs in German, Zagorova was among the artists who signed the so-called Anti-Charter Manifesto in 1977, the civil rights reform movement in former communist Czechoslovakia led by playwright Vaclav Havel.