Turkey and Greece were meeting on the football pitch for the first time in eight years as part of efforts to improve neighbourly relations, with the Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu in attendance. Shortly after his arrival in Istanbul, the two premiers watched the friendly match between their two national teams sitting next to each other.
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The match was played at Basaksehir Fatih Terim Stadium in Istanbul, Turkey, which is a predominantly Muslim nation.
Turkey has asked the European Union to provide three billion euros ($3.3 billion) a year in funding, visa-free travel for Turkish nationals and an end to the stalemate in talks for Ankara to join the 28-nation bloc. UEFA, Europe’s governing soccer body, requested that all European global games hold a minute of silence before the start of their matches and wear black armbands.
Mohamed El-Hami They were upset because there were mass killing by ISIL and Kurdish army and lots of deaths in turkey and no country or football team or fans in Europe stood a silence minute for their victims.
“To deal with human traffickers we need a joint fight”, Tsipras told journalists. They cited a suicide bombing at a peace rally in Ankara that killed more than 100 people in October.
The coast guard said Tuesday that in the previous 24 hours it had rescued almost 450 people who were in danger at sea in 10 separate instances near the eastern islands of Lesbos – which has recorded almost 60 percent of all arrivals in Greece – Samothrace, Chios, Samos, Kos and Agathonissi. In Turkey, there is rarely a minute of silence that isn’t interrupted by this chant.
And what they are chanting is this “Şehitler ölmez, vatan bölünmez”.
Pat McCrory’s office was satisfied with the background checks US officials apply to Syrian refugees before accepting them into the country. Any victims of terrorism are accepted as martyrs in Turkish culture.
The student demanded a correction from publications that carried this news.
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Earlier, a video widely shared on social media showing “Muslims in London celebrating the terror attacks on Paris” has proven to be fake. The Islamic State terrorist group claimed responsibility for the attacks.
