It feels as though, for now, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is a favorite of his US counterpart, Donald Trump. Meeting the US president in the Oval Office can be a risky undertaking one never knows what sort of greeting one might get but it hasn't been a problem for Erdogan, yet. For weeks, Trump has been talking about the 71-year-old Turkish leader in glowing terms.
Turkish Airlines, Turkey's national carrier, has announced plans to add 225 Boeing aircraft to its fleet.In an a declaration to the Istanbul Stock Exchange on Friday, the airline said it has decided to purchase 75 Boeing B787-9 and B787-10 aircraft and has completed negotiations with Boeing to acquire 150 737-8/10MAX models.The announcement was made a day after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met with U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington.
Ozden Bennett's first reaction after learning of her younger sister's killing was disbelief. Aysenur Ezgi Eygi had traveled to the occupied West Bank just three days earlier to volunteer with Palestinian communities facing violence at the hands of Israeli soldiers and settlers. But the shock and grief quickly gave way to dread that nothing would come of it, that she would have just died under that olive tree and that was it, Bennett said this week, before the anniversary of Eygi's death.