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ANKARA -Turkey has hosted around 32 million tourists in the first three quarters of 2018 with a 23 percent increase, said the culture and tourism minister on Wednesday.“It looks like we will pass 40 million [tourists] and break Turkey’s record,” Mehmet Nuri Ersoy told Anadolu Agency’s Editor’s Desk.Noting that there was an increase in the number of tourists, Ersoy said the tourism sector has experienced a rapid recovery.Ersoy said apart from the common tourists enjoying the “sea, sand, sun”, tourists interested in culture also started to visit Turkey.He said as part of...

By Servet Gunerigok

WASHINGTON - Hate directed towards Islam has motivated many Muslims in the United States to enter politics, said a Muslim lawyer and contributing opinion writer for The New York Times.In an op-ed published Tuesday, Wajahat Ali

said Muslims’ presence in American politics “probably inspires fear” among those who support a ban on travelers from several Muslim-majority countries, a wall along the Mexican border and increased restrictions on refugees.Ali cited a report by The Associated Press...

Turkey to break record in tourism

By Mehmet Ozturk and Faruk Tokat

ISTANBUL - Pakistan’s newly elected President Arif Alvi said Turkey has been holding a sizeable population of refugees, describing the country as “a savior” of Europe and other countries.Alvi spoke exclusively to Anadolu Agency in

Istanbul where he attended the opening ceremony of Istanbul Airport, which is among the world’s largest airports.Alvi, a close confidant of Prime Minister Imran Khan, was elected as the country’s 13th president on Sept. 4.He is among the founding members of the...

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‘Khashoggi’s body disposed of after dismembering’ANKARA - Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s body has been disposed of after being dismembered, Istanbul Prosecutor’s Office said on Wednesday.“The body of Khashoggi has been dismembered after being killed in the Saudi Consulate,” the office said in a statement, adding that he had been strangled soon after entering the building.Meanwhile, Saudi officials gave no information about a local collaborator in the killing of Khashoggi, the Istanbul Prosecutor’s Office added.Earlier this month, press

accounts quoted a Saudi official as saying the body had been given to a “local collaborator” to take care of, but no Saudi official has addressed the body’s whereabouts on record. The statement also said Saudi Arabia invited Istanbul’s chief public prosecutor and a Turkish delegation as part of the investigation into the slain journalist.The office reiterated its request for the extradition of suspects arrested by Saudi Arabia. Khashoggi, a Saudi journalist and columnist for The Washington Post, went missing after entering... MORE DETAILS

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