Turkey: Last News

A popular fitness influencer suddenly passed away while on holiday, just days after celebrating his 30th birthday. Jaxon Tippet, an Australian bodybuilder and social media personality, suddenly died in Turkey on Sunday, 10 November, his family has confirmed.

Lucy Mecklenburgh has shown off her incredible physique while on a sun soaked holiday with her loved ones.The former The Only Way Is Essex star has swapped the dreary autumn weather in the UK for bright blue skies in Antalya, Turkey and headed on holiday with her children Roman, four, and two year old Lilah. In a series of snaps uploaded to Instagram, Lucy, 33, has given fans a glimpse inside the wholesome trip with her little ones as they made memories to make a lifetime. In one sweet snap, the doting mum could be seen playing with Lilah as they relaxed in front of their sunloungers.

It wasn't so long ago he was scoring a famous winner for Celtic in the Europa League.

Under-fire Steven Gerrard has reportedly been given a chance to turn things around at Al-Ettifaq after crisis talks behind the scenes.

Brits are known for our love of a good holiday, eager to escape the dreary weather and enjoy a change of scenery. However, holidays don't always go as smoothly as planned, and what should be a relaxing getaway can quickly become a stressful ordeal.

Christmas dinner is a highlight of the year for many in the UK, but it doesn't come without its stresses.

A Brit teen is fighting for her life in Turkey after being hit by a paraglider in a nightmare accident.

Katie Price might be 46 but she seemed like she was out to prove she could still party like she was in her 20s on a night out at a red-carpet awards show.The mum of five joined the likes of Aisleyne Horgan Wallace, Chloe Khan and Jessica Alves for a wild evening at the UK Glamour Awards. Pricey, who recently underwent a major facelift and had her lips plumped up to their biggest size yet, let loose at the party, which celebrates models.

Scott McTominay has reportedly been tasked with keeping an eye on Inter Milan playmaker Hakan Calhanoglu when Serie A leaders Napoli go to San Siro on Sunday.

A group of organised criminals have been sent to prison after they were caught in a covert meeting for the illegal sale and purchase of a modified Turkish pistol. Connor Nixon, 27, bought the blank firing self-loading pistol, which had been altered to fire live rounds, at a prearranged meeting in Liverpool on May 21 this year.

Former Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho reportedly feels as if he has 'unfinished business' in the Premier League and sees replacing Eddie Howe at Newcastle United as his best opportunity.

Jose Mourinho has been hit with a £20,000 fine by the Turkish Football Federation after an intense outburst following Fenerbahce's narrow 3-2 victory over Trabzonspor on Sunday.

Streaming platform Mubi has cancelled its long planned Mubi Fest Istanbul at the eleventh hour after the city governor banned a screening of Luca Guadagnino’s LGBTI+ themed movie Queer, which was to have been the opening film.

Christopher Vourlias Greek filmmaker Stergios Dinopoulos’ queer romantic adventure “Bearcave” and Turkish director Ahu Ozturk’s drama “The Hunchback” took the top prizes at the Thessaloniki Film Festival’s industry award ceremony Wednesday night. Dinopoulos’ feature debut, based on a 2023 short film of the same name, won the Authorwave Post-Production Award, the top prize in the Agora’s Works in Progress section, offering image services in post-production.

Alex Ritman Mubi has scrapped an entire festival it had planned in Turkey after local authorities banned a screening of Luca Guadagnino’s “Queer.” The arthouse distributor and streamer was due to hold the annual Mubi Fest Istanbul in the Turkish capital between Nov. 7-10 with “Queer” set as the opener.

As we told you recently, Disney‘s Moana 2 is heading to the best 5-day opening ever seen at the Thanksgiving box office. We gave the six-weekend projection from Quorum, and this morning tracking service NRG which reports 3 weekend-out forecasts is saying the Hawaiian princess movie is going to clear $135M over Wednesday-Sunday which bests the record $125M five-day (not opening) Thanksgiving haul of Frozen 2 ($125M) and the $93.5M 5-day opening of Frozen.

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Feature title African Grey by Greek Filmmaker Yorgos Goussis has picked up the ThessalonikiFilm Festival’s Onassis Film Award, the largest cash prize handed out by the festival’s industry section. The award comes with a €10,000 prize. 

Content agencies from Turkey, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines presented their incentives and co-production initiatives at Taiwan Creative Content Fest (TCCF) on Thursday. 

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Governments and agencies across Asia are taking steps to expand and extend the cross-border film coproduction movement. A seminar called ‘From Eurasia to Global Collaboration’ on Thursday, the third day of the Taiwan Creative Content Fest, represented a handy recap of funding and structural developments from four countries: The Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia and Turkey. Alex Sihar, from Indonesia’s directorate of culture, part of the ministry of education, described an ongoing process intended to put the industry on a more professional footing. “While we have a long history of filmmaking and a very diverse culture, our films until recently have had very little international exposure, there has been little knowledge transfer and no incentives for location shooting or co-production.” Film policy was previously stretched across multiple ministries, but is now to be overseen by a film department under the education ministry, which is newly separated from educational matters.Co-productions are to be further encouraged and the country’s matching fund (which doubles up on funding available from the likes of the World Cinema Fund, TAICCA and Purin Pictures) is likely to be expanded. Indonesia is also a founder member of the Asian Film Alliance Network (AFAN, alongside Mongolia, Singapore, Taiwan, The Philippines, South Korea and Malaysia). Marylo Christine H.

Jack White has shared a blistering and scathing attack on Donald Trump following the latter’s Presidential election win.Yesterday (November 6), he Republican nominee and former POTUS has earned 279 electoral college votes, beating out Democratic candidate Kamala Harris’ 223 electoral college votes,securing his return to the White House (via BBC News).After news of Trump’s reelection broke, White took to social media to share his thoughts on the next President of the United States – who he has publicly had issued with in the past. White shared a graphic of a Turkish proverb that reads: “The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood he was one of them.The White Stripes frontman wrote: “Trump won the popular vote.