A photo of a girl rescued from the rubble of a building is circulating in Facebook posts that falsely claim it was taken following a devastating 7.8-magnitude earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria on February 6. The picture actually shows a child discovered alive 91 hours after a quake hit the Turkish city of Izmi.
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April 2
- 555 Turkish citizens from Algeria evacuated by Algerian Airlines to Samsun in Turkey s Black Sea region.
April 6
- Turkey s flagship Anadolu Agency celebrates its centennial, as it was founded on April 6, 1920 – 17 days before the Turkish Grand National Assembly convened for the first time on April 23, amid the Turkish War of Independence. Since its foundation, Anadolu Agency has worked to speedily disseminate factual news across the globe with confidence, impartiality, and professionalism.
It is seen as one of the world s most prestigious news agencies, currently producing news in 13 languages and serving 6,000 subscribers in 93 countries with at least 3,000 employees stationed in 100 countries.
Marvelous Miracles Occurred for Many in the Middle East This Year, Including Camels (with VIDEO) Tara Kavaler 12/14/2020
In the shadow of a global pandemic, we recount eight unusual events as Israel celebrates the Jewish festival of lights
The Hanukkah holiday, which Jews around the world are observing this week, celebrates two different miracles: the overthrow of Greco-Syrian control over Judea and the discovery in the Temple in Jerusalem of a sealed vial of oil that is said to have burned for eight days instead of one.
“In the Bible, when miracles happen, they happen for a reason,” Rabbi Yosef Ote, the community rabbi of the Orthodox Hazvi Yisrael synagogue in Jerusalem, told The Media Line. For example, he said: “The ten plagues in Egypt happened because of what was going on with slavery, and we needed to escape, so God split the sea.”