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Turkey
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HECTIC: Drone Footage From Syrian Town Shows Devastation [Video]
06 May 2015 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The level of destruction that IS had left in its path is quite a sight to behold. Watch here as a drone takes flight through a war torn town in Syria.
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Woah! Cape Town School Girl Taken Off Plane As She Headed Off To Join ISIS
07 Apr 2015 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
IS has managed to catch the attention of a Cape Town kid – how many more are about to board flights to join the terrifying militant group?
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In Turkey, They Also Physically Fight In Parliament [Video]
19 Feb 2015 by Kiernan / No Comments
As we slowly come to terms with the farce that was SONA we can take some solace in the fact that we are not alone. Turkey, it seems, also enjoy a little parliamentary brawl.
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Gay Man Survives After Being Thrown Off A Roof By ISIS – Then This Happens [Images]
03 Feb 2015 by Kiernan / 1 Comment
Get ready to crank up your blood pressure levels because ISIS are at it again. I believe the headline kind of sums it up best.
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Citizen Journalism In 2013 – A Review [VIDEO]
09 Jan 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Last year more than ever, human endeavour and technology formed a powerful bond that exposed human rights issues on a scale that has never been seen before.
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TIME Magazine’s Top 10 Photos Of 2013 [GALLERY]
04 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
It’s been one helluva hectic year. There was typhoon Haiyan, the crisis in Syria, the Boston bombings, wild Australian bushfires and worldwide protests.
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America Has Gone Nuts For This Fat Kid Caught On [VIDEO]
28 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Thanksgiving means two things to Americans: turkey and live football. This Vine clip, then, pretty much encapsulates thanksgiving in 6 seconds.
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Obama Pardons Turkey: Let’s Have A Look At This Bizarre American Presidential Tradition [GALLERY]
28 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Every year at Thanksgiving time, the White House hosts the National Thanksgiving Turkey Presentation – also attended by National Turkey Federation – where the current president ‘pardons’ a single turkey from being eaten for lunch.
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Monday Morning Spice
04 Nov 2013 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
New undersea tunnel joins Europe and Asia. Officer shot and killed at LAX airport. Bieber loses Twitter top spot. Priceless Nazi looted art found. Man wants reward for Bin Laden tipoff. Novak wins Paris masters.
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Fans Insult Soccer Player’s Dead Mom, Soccer Player Bursts Into Tears [VIDEO]
02 Sep 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Everything about this story is very sad. In this video you will see an emotional, Turkish football player, Volkan Sen who plays for Trabzonspor FC. He burst in to tears during a match on Monday because fans of his OWN TEAM heckled his dead mother. Wait until you hear what the chairman of the football club had to say.
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They Think They’ve Found 5,000 Year Old Game Tokens, Dice
16 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Gaming pieces have been uncovered in a 5,000 year-old burial site in Turkey. They could be the oldest gaming pieces found, ever. Small sculpted stones in the shapes of pigs, dogs, pyramids, dice, and so on were found in the site that was inhabited as early as 7,000 BC.
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Never Mind Turkey – Violent Protests Blew Up Across The Globe Last Night [VIDEOS]
18 Jun 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Violent protests flared up in Indonesia and Brazil yesterday for remarkably similar reasons. Hundreds of thousands of people in Brazil are protesting over an increase in bus fares. Naturally, discontent over inequality, and the quantity of money being spent on next year’s Soccer World Cup fueled the action. Indonesia, meanwhile, is boiling over in the face of their first […]
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The Protests In Turkey – Get Up To Speed In Less Than 5 Minutes [PICS + VIDEO]
04 Jun 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
You may or may not be aware that thousands of people have gathered in Istanbul (and recently, in other cities in Turkey) under the hashtag of #OccupyGezi. Who are these people, and what are they protesting?
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US And Turkey Meet To Plot Assad’s End
23 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The US and Turkey seem to have had enough of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime and have begun their first “operational planning” meeting aimed at bringing about its demise. They are plotting for all eventualities, even a chemical attack in Damascus which Washington has called a “red line”.
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Rescue Mission To Free Earthquake Survivors Continues In Turkey
24 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The 7,2 magnitude earthquake which struck Eastern Turkey yesterday afternoon has already taken the lives of 200 and injured more than 1 000. But brave rescue teams are hard at work to free the many other people who are believed to be trapped under the rubble and debris from the quake.
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