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x0x Turkish News for the week ending 14 January 2023

[This is a transcript of the news broadcast on 14 January 2023]

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NEWS

★ According to VOA, Syrian Kurds are accusing Turkey of changing the demographics under Kurdish-Controlled territory in northwestern Syria.

  They claim that Turks have settled Turkmens and Arabs in majority Kurdish-held areas.

  Turkey controls parts of northern Syria to keep the Syrian Kurds under check. Turkey considers the Syrian Kurdish military aligned with the U. S. affiliated with the rebel Turkish Kurds.

  See the VOA article with photographs Read more >> here <<


★ According to Deutsche Welle, Turkey on Friday lashed out at Sweden after an effigy of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was hung upside down from a lamppost in Stockholm during a pro-Kurdish demonstration.

  Here is a summary of the article:

  Neutral throughout the Cold War, Finland and Sweden applied to join NATO in the aftermath of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. But Turkey objects to the Nordic countries' history of welcoming asylum seekers, many of them Kurds, who Turkey considers terrorists.

  NATO members have to approve the membership of Finland and Sweden unanimously. Turkey has asked the two countries to cooperate in returning people it considers terrorists and lifting any arms embargo. If they do not comply, Turkey says it will reject their membership.

  Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson condemned the effigy incident on Friday. He said that he thought the perpetrators designed it to derail his country's NATO bid.

  Read the original article here Read more >> here <<


★ A Turkish court convicted Dr. Şebnem Fincancı, the president of the Turkish Medical Association. Taking the clue from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, prosecutors accused her of spreading propaganda for terrorists, reports the BBC.

  The court sentenced her to nearly three years in jail, but she is eligible for release.

  Rights groups say her detention was a bid to silence her and other activists.

  Fincancı, a forensic specialist, is a leading human rights activist. Turkish police arrested her when she called for an independent investigation into claims that the military used banned chemical weapons against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq.

  Read the original article with photographs Read more >> here <<


★ The ruling Justice and Development Party would like to see Istanbul Metropolitan Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu disappear.

  Wresting the mayoralty from the Justice and Development Party in the 2018 local elections, Turkish President Mr. Erdoğan sees him as a potential rival in this year's presidential election. To eliminate Mr. İmamoğlu from challenging him, President Erdoğan is coaxing supposedly-independent courts to try him on various trumped-up charges.

  This week, Mr. Erdoğan's administration filed another lawsuit against Mr. İmamoğlu, claiming he was involved in a bid-rigging in a 2015 tender. The charge carries a sentence of up to seven years, reports the Turkish news outlet Habertürk.


★ Speaking of upcoming elections, the Turkish daily Duvar reports that mayors from the main opposition Republican People's Party, Ekrem İmamoğlu and Ankara Metropolitan Mayor Mansur Yavaş, are leading against President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

  A recent survey by private pollster ORC Research revealed the results, reports the daily Duvar.

  Opposition right-wing Good Party leader Meral Akşener also beat Erdoğan for his office, whereas Republican People's Party leader Kılıçdaroğlu fell behind Erdoğan.

  Here are the poll results:


★ According to Reuters, Şakir Özkan Torunlar, Turkey's new ambassador to Israel, visited Israeli president Isaac Herzog.

  President Herzog told ambassador Torunlar that he would like to have Turkey's president Erdoğan visit Israel.

  Since 2008, the two countries were not on good terms and did not have ambassadors exchanged. Before that, the two countries were close allies.

  Finding himself an outsider and the Turkish economy in shambles, Turkey's president Erdoğan decided to mend its bad relations with neighbors, including Israel, resulting in the exchange of ambassadors.

  President Erdoğan received Irit Lillian, Israel's new ambassador to Turkey, on December 27.


★ On January 12, Paul Iddon of Forbes wrote that the prototype of Turkey's home-grown Stealth Fighter jet TF-X would fly this year, the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the Republic of Turkey.

  Iddon wrote that even if Turkey could fly the fighter, there would be many years of work before it could make a truly fifth-generation aircraft or even a fully functional prototype.

  Read the original article with photographs Read more >> here <<


★ According to Jack Detsch of the Foreign Policy magazine, Turkey is sending Cold War-era cluster bombs to Ukraine.

  The artillery-fired cluster munitions could be lethal to Russian troops-and Ukrainian civilians.

  Turkey had made the munitions on a direct co-production agreement with the United States.

  The article writes that shipping these munitions is a reversal of policy for Turkey. In 2021 Turkey pledged to the international disarmament community that it would not use cluster munitions.

  The article also says the following about the Turkish policy in the Russia-Ukraine war:

  "President Erdoğan kept a consistent policy to the war, experts said. He has acted as an economic friend to the Kremlin while allying with other Black Sea states and fellow NATO members militarily against Russia."

  Read the full article with photographs Read more >> here <<


★ According to Shephard News, which provides defense-related information, Turkey is testing a domestically-made surface-to-air missile system. The system could replace the Russian S-400 system that Turkey acquired controversially.

  The U. S. sanctioned Turkey for purchasing the Russian system. One of the sanctions was the expulsion of Turkey from the F-35 joint fighter program. Turkey originally wanted to buy 100 F-35s but is barred from acquiring them.


★ On Tuesday, a Turkish court ruled that police used disproportionate force against Agence France-Presse photojournalist Bülent Kılıç during the LGBTQ Pride March in Istanbul in 2021.

  The judge ordered the state to pay 30,000 Turkish liras in compensation.

  During the March, police surrounded him, took him down, and pressed their knees onto his back. Kılıç shouted "I cannot breathe," much like African-American Eric Garner in 2014.


ARTS AND CULTURE

Edited by Saadet Ejder

★ On January 12, Turkish folk music singer Burhan Çaçan died at age 62 from a heart attack.

  Born in the Eleşkirt district of Ağrı province in northeastern Turkey, he won a singing competition when he was a teenager. He produced his first album in 1981. He is renowned for singing songs from Eastern Turkey.

  In addition to being a singer, he was also a lyricist, composer, and actor.


★ Theaters around the world started screening "Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre," a 2023 spy action comedy movie about a gang of Ukrainian Mafia stealing a device known as "The Handle."

  Directed by Guy Ritchie, the film venue is in Turkey's Antalya province.

  Among the cast are Turkish actors Kaan Urgancıoğlu, Ozan Ayhan, Ergun Kuyucu ve Aksel Üstün, and Turkish-German actor Tim Seyfi Grant.

  Turkish commentators say that the film lets the world know about the beauties of Antalya province.

  The producers shot a scene of the film in the 2000-year-old Aspendos theater.


★ The Norwegian jazz ensemble Jaga Jazzist will be in concert in Istanbul on January 25 at İş Towers Concert Hall.

  Jaga Jazzist is celebrating its 28th year.

  "A Living Room Hush," their first album, won BBC's album of the year award.


★ On Thursday evening, Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra had its "New Year Concert."

  The orchestra started the concert with "Olympic Fanfare insert before" and then performed the Italian Capriccio, an American in Paris, Capriccio Espagnol, Köçekçe, and brought other music from different parts of the world, including Norway, China, and Mexico.

  Carolyn Kuan led the orchestra. Kuan became the first Asian woman conductor of a major orchestra. She was also the first woman to receive the Herbert Von Karajan conducting fellowship.


★ Artist at the Yapı Kredi Culture and Art Lodge prepared a series of classical Turkish/Ottoman music concerts.

  The artists have been performing the Letters and Notes concert series for five years.

  The concert, "There Is Music in the Far Far Away," consists of five parts.

  The concert takes its name from a book by Cem Behar. He will also attend the event as a guest.

  Güzin Değişmez will be a soloist at the event.

  The first of the concerts, "Roots," will be at the Lodge on Saturday, January 21.


★ The progressive British rock band Camel started performing in 1971. Celebrating the 50th anniversary of their career with a 2023 tour, the band will also come to Turkey.

  The concert venue in Istanbul will be Volkswagen Arena.

  Camel continues its musical adventure, masterfully blending progressive rock, symphonic rock, jazz, classical music, blues, electronic music, and Baroque music.

  The group gained critical acclaim with cult albums such as "Mirage" (1974), "The Snow Goose" (1974), "Moonmadness" (1976), and Stationery Traveler (1984).

  There Istanbul concert will take place on May 27.


★ The PEN Authors Association will have its 27-hour Creative Writing Workshop in its Beyoğlu, Istanbul offices.

  The workshop will be on Saturdays from 2 P.M. to 4:30 P.M. and will start on January 21.


★ dArt platform, established by Samsung last May, displays digital art in 26 venues in 11 provinces of Turkey.

  The exhibition features prominent digital artists from Turkey on TV screens and tablets.

  The artwork is also available on the Samsung website at Read more >> here <<

  Since its start, five million people visited the website.


★ The Istanbul Research Institute has a new exhibition of photographs taken during the occupation of Istanbul after the First World War.

  After the defeat of the Ottomans, Germany, and other allies, British, French, Italian, and Greek forces occupied the Ottoman capital Istanbul.

  The introduction to the exhibition on its website writes the following:

  "Istanbul was in flux, not only politically but also socially and culturally. Residents of the city witnessed and participated in mass demonstrations to protest against violence and occupation, strikes that paralyzed trams, ferries, and gasworks in the hope of better pay and conditions; dawn raids on officers and officials accused of wartime crimes or defiance of the Allies or sultan; the detention and search of cafe-goers for weapons and banned literature; brawls between Allied servicemen and civilians in bars and brothels; and assassinations, lynchings, and abductions by armed bands. Amidst the upheaval, people continued to strive to better others' lives and their own. Schools, institutions, and community organizations were opened; concerts and exhibitions held with the contribution of diverse talents and patrons; new political, literary, and artistic ideas enlivened the pages of a flourishing press; and charities raised funds for the support of refugees, wounded veterans, orphans, and the city's poor."

  The website of the exhibition is Read more >> here <<


★ Historian Dr. Engin Beksaç says that false rumors that claim that there is gold in older structures and Graves are destroying priceless heritage in Edirne in Northwestern Turkey.

  People searching for treasures are conducting illegal excavations and tearing down historical structures.

  Dr. Engin Beksaç called on all historical structures to be protected.

  Dr. Beksaç is currently the head of the Art History Department at Trakya University in Edirne.


★ Basilica Therma, a 2000-year-old Roman bath in the Sarıkaya district of the central Anatolian province of Yozgat in Turkey, will soon open to the public.

  Turkey's Culture and Tourism Ministry announced that renovation works in and around the bath would be complete in May.

  The bath is on the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List.

  The structure is one of only two in the world, the other being in Bath, Britain.


★ First excavated between 1974 and 1978, archaeologists re-started excavations at a mound in Turkey's southwestern district of Kuşadası.

  Dr. Aydın Erön, the excavation head from the Aydın Adnan Menderes University, said archaeologists knew about the mound since the 1950s. He thinks that it is probably a mausoleum from the Hellenistic period. Similar structures in the area date back to 2400 years ago.

  He says that the structure is well-preserved. It covers a circular area of 70 feet in diameter.


EXCHANGE RATE
 
EXCHANGE RATE for the U.S. dollar in Turkish Liras: 18.78
 
WEATHER
High and Low Temperatures in Degrees F, Weather 
Ankara, in central Turkey        : 48/30 Partly Cloudy
Antalya, on the Mediterranean    : 61/46 Showers
Erzurum, in Eastern Turkey       : 34/12 Partly Cloudy
Istanbul, in northwestern Turkey : 54/46 Light Rain
Izmir, on the Aegean             : 59/45 Partly Cloudy
Trabzon, on the Black Sea        : 54/45 Mostly Cloudy


Snow depths at skiing locations: 
Erciyes in Kayseri, Central Turkey      : 8 inches
Ilgaz in Kastamonu, North Central Turkey: No snow report
Kartalkaya in Bolu, Western Turkey      : 7 inches
Palandöken in Erzurum, Eastern Turkey   : 12 inches
Saklıkent in Antalya, Southern Turkey   : 39 inches
Uludağ in Bursa, Western Turkey         : 9 inches
Sarıkamış in Kars, Eastern Turkey       : 9 inches
SPORTS

Edited by Ertuğrul Korkmaz

★ SOCCER

Premier League

* Results for week: 17 
Hatay           -      Antalya           0 - 0
Beşiktaş        -      Kasımpaşa         2 - 1
Fenerbahçe      -      G. Saray          0 - 3
Ankaragücü      -      Kayseri           2 - 1
K.gümrük        -      Konya             3 - 3
Giresun         -      Ümrani̇ye         0 - 1
Istanbul        -      G. Antep          1 - 1
Alanya      -      Trabzon           5 - 0
Başakşehir      -      Adana             2 - 1
* In games played so far this weekend: 
Antalya         -      Fenerbahçe     1 - 2
Ümrani̇ye       -      Hatay          2 - 2
Kayseri         -      K.gümrük       2 - 4
Kasımpaşa       -      Alanya     4 - 1
G. Saray        -      Ankaragücü     2 - 1
Konya           -      Sivas          2 - 2
Adana           -      Istanbul       6 - 0
Trabzon         -      Giresun        3 - 0
G. Antep        -      Başakşehir     1 - 1
* Standing in the league as of week ending 17 
 1 - G. Saray        39
 2 - Fenerbahçe      35
 3 - Başakşehir      34
 4 - Adana           30
 5 - Beşiktaş        29
 6 - Trabzon         29
 7 - Konya           27
 8 - Alanya      24
 9 - Kayseri         23
10 - K.gümrük        20
11 - G. Antep        19
12 - Ankaragücü      19
13 - Giresun         19
14 - Kasımpaşa       18
15 - Antalya         17
16 - Hatay           17
17 - Sivas           15
18 - Ümrani̇ye       14
19 - Istanbul        12
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