Turkey to give without visa travel to six European nations

Turkey's Foreign Ministry on Feb. 20 declared that Ankara will give without visa travel to five Schengen nations just as the U.K. with a 90-day visa exclusion for touristic purposes.

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The visa exclusion will be conceded to Austria, Belgium, Netherlands, Spain, Poland and the U.K., the service said in a composed articulation.

Sans visa touristic travel to Turkey from the said nations will start March 2, 2020 and will be substantial for 90 days in at regular intervals of the visits, the announcement included.

"The point of this progression is to progress [Turkey's] the travel industry potential with the said nations, just as creating business, monetary and social relations," it said.

Turkey has a mind boggling visa arrangement, while it requires visas from some European Union part states and Schengen nations, it awards sans visa travel to some other.

A sum of 78 nations, including European nations, for example, Germany, Spain, France, Sweden, Italy, Ireland, Switzerland and Finland, has been allowed visa exclusion for touristic visits to Turkey.

Turkey and the EU in December 2013 consented to consent to the Readmission Arrangement as an end-result of propelling visa progression talks for Turkish residents, after about two years of exchange.

With a roundabout distributed on Sept. 18, 2019, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan required the increasing speed of endeavors to meet visa progression exchange with the EU.

"So as to guarantee the fulfillment of visa progression for our residents, it is important to quicken the endeavors to meet the criteria enlisted in the Visa Liberalization Roadmap and to guarantee the congruity of the endeavors which are affirmed to have been met by the European Commission," the roundabout had said.

A huge number of breads left in nature in superstition accepted to forestall cataclysmic events

Some tradesmen in the eastern territory of Erzurum left 2,001 portions of bread for wild creatures in the rocky zone where the place of worship of Pir Ali Baba, a strict researcher, is situated in what they accept would avert occasions, for example, tremors, torrential slides and plane crashes that have occurred in Turkey as of late.

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The "1,001 Hatim," the demonstration of perusing the Islamic sacred book Quran from begin to end multiple times, was begun 487 years back by Pir Ali Baba to shield Erzurum from cataclysmic events.


The occasion proceeded with petitions read in different mosques for a month.


During the hatim days in those days, 1,001 portions of bread had been left for the wild creatures on the mountain where the tomb is found.

Be that as it may, since Turkey has been hit again with quakes, torrential slides, a plane accident and late conflicts in Syria as of late, local people have, this time, left 2,001 breads.

Muhittin Olçun, who left the portions of bread in nature, said that the individuals should deal with the untamed life.

"Wild creatures that can't discover nourishment in nature even go to the downtown area. Hungry wolves go down to the towns and execute the pooches. Pigs got in a market in [western] Bursa region," Olçun said.

"A general public that doesn't offer harmony to creatures can't discover harmony either. The creatures living in nature are really endowed to us. In this way, we need to deal with them," he said.

Plane slides off runway at air terminal in Istanbul, slaughters three

A traveler plane slid off the runway at an air terminal in Istanbul on Feb. 5, slaughtering three individuals and harming 180 others, authorities said.

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Pegasus Airlines flight PC2193 was landing from Turkey's Aegean area of Izmir at Sabiha Gökçen International Airport when it slid off the runway while landing, said Turkey's Transportation and Infrastructure Minister Cahit Turhan.

This is how Sabiha Gökçen Airport's flight from the runway was reflected in security cameras.


Three individuals kicked the bucket among the 177 travelers and six team individuals, said Health Minister Fahrettin Koca.

TV film indicated the nose of the plane totally isolated from the remainder of the fuselage, which burst into blazes following the accident.

"As indicated by the data we acquired, after the hard setting down, the plane floated," said Turhan.

Approximately 180 individuals were harmed, including 174 travelers and six group individuals, said Istanbul Governor Ali Yerlikaya.

As indicated by the aircraft organization, 22 outside travelers from 12 nations were ready, Yerlikaya included.

Subsequent to sliding off the runway, the plane floated around 50 meters (164 feet), Yerlikaya said.

"At that point it tumbled from a stature of around 30 meters [98 feet] here, where there is an association street from the TEM parkway to the E-5 roadway."

Examiners in the capital Ankara propelled an examination concerning the occurrence.

The air terminal, which was shut after the mishap, was revived for flights.


President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan communicated profound distress over the individuals who kicked the bucket in a traveler plane accident and torrential slide in Turkey.

"I want Allah's kindness for our residents who lost their lives in these occurrences and a rapid recuperation to the harmed," Erdoğan said on Twitter.

"We will additionally reinforce our groundwork for fiascos, rapidly mend our injuries, grasp and bolster our residents, groups of our saints and veterans influenced by debacles and mishaps," Erdoğan underlined.

Second torrential slide covers search group, kills at any rate 33

A torrential slide hammered into a mountain street in the eastern region of Van on Feb. 5, clearing out a colossal group of salvage laborers sent to discover two individuals missing in a previous torrential slide.

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At any rate 33 individuals including security officials executed and 53 others were harmed.

The dead exploited people included at any rate eight gendarmerie work force, three security watches, three firemen and nine regular citizens, as indicated by Van Governor Mehmet Emin Bilmez.

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Exceptional pursuit and salvage endeavors were progressing, and 15 additional ambulances were sent to the locale in the midst of danger of new torrential slides, he included.

Bahçesaray Mayor Meki Arvas said a group of 300 individuals had been attempting to save individuals caught under a before snowslide on Feb. 4, when a subsequent torrential slide happened at 12:02 p.m. on Feb. 5.

At any rate five individuals were murdered in the principal torrential slide on Feb. 4, authorities said. It occurred in Van's Bahçesaray region during awful climate and struck a minibus venturing to every part of the Van-Bahçesaray parkway.

A score of Turkish inquiry and salvage colleagues who were overwhelmed by snow were protected in a brief time. Inside Minister Süleyman Soylu said 30 them were taken to clinic.

Ringed by huge mountains, Bahçesaray oftentimes faces cruel winter conditions.


AFAD said that 59 of its hunt and salvage specialists were dispatched to the territory at first. A gendarmerie group of 75 salvage specialists, 10 National Medical Rescue Team (UMKE) individuals and firemen went with them, it included.