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Seref Isler

Asia–Pacific (APAC), Singapore
As seen in: CNBC, CNA (Channel NewsAsia), WMAQ-TV (Chicago, IL)
Covers:  Current affairs, hostile environment, international politics, UK politics, Australian politics, Turkey, Turkish current affairs, Asian current affairs, television, radio, online, business
News producer. Ex-CNBC, BBC, SBS, RadyoBilkent. Insomniac nomad. Loves food, tattoos, dogs and metal music 🇬🇧🇹🇷
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High intensity, grit: How women’s football is growing more popular in Singapore

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By Grace Shin Verified, Seref Isler
| CNA (Channel NewsAsia) Verified
SINGAPORE: Lionesses head coach Karim Bencherifa has a busy year ahead. The Moroccan, who took over as head coach of the Singapore women’s national football team on a two-year contract late last year, has high hopes for his players. The team will travel to Indonesia to play in the ASEAN Women’s Championships – officially known as the MSIG Serenity Cup 2025 – before heading to Bangkok for the 2025 Southeast Asia Games. “For the past two years, we’ve been working with a group of young footballers.
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Turkey wants to be neutral in the Ukraine war. But a treaty from 1936 has it on a tightrope Original

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By Seref Isler
| CNBC Verified
Ozan Kose | Afp | Getty Images There's a Turkish saying, "Did your ships sink in the Black Sea?" The expression is asked when a person is lost in thought, trying to resolve a seemingly unsolvable problem. As it turns out, that's the very body of water that has Turkey on a geopolitical tightrope since Russia invaded Ukraine and began military operations from those waters — because Turkey controls access to the Black Sea.
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Want to understand Turkey's brutal inflation? Look at the price of plums Original

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By Seref Isler
| CNBC Verified
Shoppers stroll the aisles of a bazaar in Konya, Turkey. The country is experiencing brutal inflation, with food and non-alcoholic beverage prices rising 70.3% year-over-year for March. Diego Cupolo | Nurphoto | Getty Images For Turks, the humble green plum ("erik" in Turkish) represents the start of spring. An intensely sour fruit, it's available just once a year around April, when the plum tree bears fruit and they're plucked before ripening.
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