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Merih Demiral's own goal kicked off scoring at the Euro 2020 tournament, which began Friday after a one-year delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

In Turkey, migrants from Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Somalia "are not in any danger...due to their race, religion, citizenship, political beliefs or membership in some particular social group," Greece's decree said.

The videos have detailed allegations of illegal activities against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his government.

Experts warn that the situation will also continue to get worse as a result of climate change.

"If the United Nations does not clean it up, we will do it as a UN member," Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday. A refugee camp in Iraq, Makhmour, is believed to be used by the Kurdistan Workers Party as a safe haven and logistics center.

The tanker called RAVA was carrying 249 meters of crude oil when a mechanical failure caused it to get dragged as it made its way back to the Yenikoy district of Istanbul, according to the Directorate General.

In a series of videos posted on YouTube in recent weeks, fugitive mob boss Sedat Peker made claims of corruption, drug trafficking and covering up murder against ruling figures in the Turkish government.

Erdogan stressed the need for "the international community to give Israel a strong and deterrent lesson" and pressed for the U.N. Security Council to rapidly intervene with "determined and clear messages" to Israel.

Europe is increasingly being enmeshed in Middle Eastern rivalries and geopolitical strife.

The United States has issued a condemnation of rocket attacks claimed by Hamas against Israeli cities and settlements, while Middle Eastern nations including Iran, Turkey and Arab states have condemned Israel's crackdown on Palestinian protesters and worshippers.

"As a country where the genocide against the Jews is seared into the national consciousness, can Israel afford to avoid recognizing the same Armenian reality?" American Jewish Committee CEO David Harris asks Newsweek.

Turkey went into a strict COVID-19 new lockdown on Thursday that bans residents from leaving their homes except to shop for groceries or to meet other essential needs.

Ankara needs to change not only its rhetoric but also its policy to reverse the alarming trends that have brought religious minority communities to the brink of extinction.

The court in Antalya, Turkey, heard how the husband of Melek Ipek, 31, had threatened her and her children.

The duo came up with the comedic clip to make light of the lack of travel restrictions.

A member of the Turkish parliament has been accused of threatening a left-wing colleague on Twitter.

In the days following U.S. President Joe Biden's recognition of the mass deportations and massacres of ethnic Armenians during the early 20th century as genocide, Turkish protesters are demanding that U.S. troops leave the country.

Joe Biden on Saturday became the first American president to officially recognize the Ottoman Empire's World War I-era mass killings of Armenians as "genocide."

"We remember the lives of all those who died in the Ottoman-era Armenian genocide," Biden said on the annual Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day.

"Words cannot change history or rewrite it," Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said in response to President Biden's statement on Saturday, which formally called the events between 1915 to 1923 a "genocide."

Turkish police arrested 62 people after Istanbul-headquartered Thodex blocked users from accessing their accounts or withdrawing money for several days.

Bahtiyar the Denizli rooster, now a local celebrity, crows for around 15 seconds before fainting in the viral clip.

It is time President Joe Biden recognize the genocide of the Armenian, Assyrian and Greek people.

What it would mean for the United States to officially recognize the Armenian genocide as the historic fact that it is?

The president promised on the campaign trail to back a resolution calling the mass killings an act of genocide.

The attempted ethnic cleansing in 1915 of Armenians, the world's first Christian nation, is one of the darkest chapters in history.

President Joe Biden could write an important chapter in American history.

Recent events highlight that the relationship between Presidents Erdogan and Putin is transactional, and that Washington and Ankara still share the same historic rival.

Violations of religious freedom against Turkey's Christians are increasingly rampant.

The United States is in a special position to influence the peacebuilding process given its unique capabilities and the trust it enjoys in both societies.