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Premier League trading for the 2024 season is happening. All of the participating teams experienced some roster shuffles in the lead-up to the auction, as was to be expected. The fans were taken aback by several names, including as Shardul Thakur and Hardik Pandya. The squads did, however, see some intriguing additions and adjustments, particularly from Delhi Capitals. On December 19, the auction is set to happen at the Coca-Cola Arena in Dubai. The budget for each team would be Rs 100 crore, up from Rs 95 crore the year before. The auction will be placed outside of India for the first time this time. The auction was ultimately conducted in Kochi last year, although the BCCI had originally intended for it to take place in Istanbul. The Delhi-based team experienced frequent league stage failure in 2023, placing them ninth in the points rankings. List of players dropped:

Israel-Hamas truce Day 2: Hamas set to release 14 Israeli hostages in exchange for 42 Palestinian prisoners Around 100,000 are expected to protest in London on November 25 against the alleged excesses committed by the Israeli forces in the besieged Gaza Strip. Over 14,000 persons, more than half comprising of women and children, have been killed in the bombings carried out by Israel, according to the Gaza health ministry.

The BLUR price is seeing a considerable price boost from its Binance listing, elevating it to one of the best crypto to buy now.

By Ceyda Caglayan

As zero-knowledge (ZK) technology marches its way toward solving mainstream use cases, the community backing the disruptive tech continues to grow stronger. Over 1,200 ZK developers, community members and enthusiasts, including Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, attended the latest zkDay Istanbul event. 

Abeer Ayyoub in Istanbul contributed to this article. Write to David S. Cloud at [email protected] and Jared Malsin at [email protected]

Severe storms have delayed a search-and-rescue operation for 12 crew members of a cargo ship that sank off Turkey’s Black Sea coast, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said Monday. The Turkish-flagged Kafkametler sank on Sunday after hitting a breakwater outside the harbor off the town of Eregli, some 200 kilometers (124 miles) east of Istanbul, Yerlikaya told reporters. He said rescue crews were on standby waiting for the weather conditions to ease to begin a rescue mission. “Unfortunately, we could not carry out search-and-rescue activities for the 12 Turkish crew members,” Yerlikaya said.

Netflix expands its content with 14 additions this week from November 19 to 25, featuring a reality show, an animated movie, and a limited thriller series. "Squid Game: The Challenge," a reality show based on the hit series, kicks off on November 22, 2023, as 456 participants vie for a $4.56 million prize. Players navigate challenges, devise strategies, form alliances, and strive to survive until the competition's end. On Tuesday, November 21, Netflix premieres the animated movie "Leo!" voiced by Adam Sandler, Bill Burr, and others. The film follows a lizard's escapade during the final year of elementary school, breaking free from a 74-year confinement in a terrarium with his turtle companion. Swedish limited series, «A Nearly Normal Family,» arrives on November 24, depicting a seemingly ordinary family shattered by a shocking murder. As one family member faces arrest, questions arise about how well they truly know each other. Rounding out the week are «Love Island USA» season 3 on November 24 and «Crime Diaries: The Celebrity Stylist» on November 22, offering a diverse selection for Netflix subscribers.

Binance Blockchain Week Istanbul 2023 saw global crypto exchange Binance bringing its flagship event to Turkey on Nov. 8–9, where business is conducted in the Turkish lira — a top trading pair on its platform. 

Dubai has long lived by the adage that more is more, and this year's edition of the biennial air show stands to fulfill that principle. Emirates, already the world's largest international airline, is poised to kick off the first day of the event with a major aircraft order to renew its widebody fleet. President Tim Clark has publicly declared that he's in the market for more than 100 planes, possibly buying from both Airbus SE and Boeing Co. Now Turkish Airlines is muscling into the event, planning to one-up the local champion with a giant order for about 350 aircraft, according to people familiar with the negotiations.

ANKARA (Reuters) — Turkish Airlines (THY) on Saturday held talks with Airbus to discuss a potential order of 355 new aircraft, the state-run Anadolu news agency said.

Gala seems to be one of the best crypto to buy now, as the Gala price is surging by over 8% following the project’s participation in Binance Blockchain Week in Istanbul.

Digital asset exchange Binance has rolled out a web3 wallet to offer a simplified gateway to self-custody for its users.

Crypto exchange Binance announced the launch of its new Web3 wallet at the Binance Blockchain Week conference in Istanbul, to be made available to all users via the Binance mobile app.

Slow Horses has unveiled its third season trailer. This espionage series, available on Apple TV+, revolves around a cohort of MI5 outcasts who, rather than facing termination, are banished to a grim place known as Slough House, under the less-than-pleasant leadership of Jackson Lamb (portrayed by Gary Oldman). The third season, which is an adaptation of the book «Real Tigers,» is based on Mick Herron's Slough House book series. Its plot explores a romantic entanglement in Istanbul that puts the disclosure of a long-kept MI5 secret in London at risk. A sneak peek of the upcoming action is shown in the first trailer, where an MI5 team decides to take matters into their own hands and kidnaps Catherine Standish (played by Saskia Reeves). A «reckoning» is mentioned as a pivotal part of the plot, and it is Jackson and the Slow Horses' duty to band together. The third season will feature new faces alongside the returning cast of «Gangs of London,» such as Katherine Waterston from «Fantastic Beasts,» who plays MI5 agent Alison Dunn, and Dìrísù, who plays Sean Donovan, the former chief of security at the British embassy in Istanbul. Notably, a fourth season was formally guaranteed last year, guaranteeing the continuation of the Slough House series adaptation beyond the third.

Taking $2 billion from his customers saw the boss of one of Turkey's largest crypto exchanges Thodex sentenced to 11,196 years, 10 months and 15 days in prison.

AFP. While Palestinian news agency WAFA said 51 Palestinians were killed in the Israeli bombing of Gaza's Maghazi camp. In a statement released on Telegram, Hamas claimed that Israel had "directly" struck civilian homes, noting that women and children made up the majority of the fatalities.

Istanbul: Turkey said Saturday it was recalling its ambassador to Israel and breaking off contacts with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in protest at the bloodshed in Gaza. Ankara announced its decision on the eve of what promises to be a difficult visit to Turkey by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Palestinian ally Turkey had been gradually mending its torn relations with Israel until last month's start of the Israel-Hamas war.

A Dubai-based television network broadcasting across the Middle East cut substantial portions of an episode of the satiric news program “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” over references to Saudi Arabia’s crown prince being implicated in the killing ...

Dr. Hüseyin Kandulu graduated from Trakya University Faculty of Medicine in 2003 and is a board-certified plastic reconstructive and aesthetic surgeon. Since opening his own private practice in Istanbul in 2015, he has trained colleagues in high-volume fat transfer and advanced body sculpting procedures.

Israel-Gaza War News: Amid the ongoing war between Israel and Gaza, Tel Aviv on Saturday said that it was recalling its diplomatic staff from Turkey. The move comes after Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan reiterated his remarks that Israel is an “occupier", and Hamas was “not a terrorist orgamisation". "Given the grave statements coming from Turkey, I have ordered the return of diplomatic representatives there in order to conduct a reevaluation of the relations between Israel and Turkey," Foreign Minister Eli Cohen said in a post on X, formerly Twitter.