Ebru Gündeş sings the kind of desperately tragic Arabesque love songs that are the core of Turkish pop music

December 22, 2024. (Screen capture via YouTube, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law) Iran’s paramilitary forces reportedly plotted to kidnap an Iranian-Israeli journalist by luring him to Turkey and then smuggling him into Iran, but abandoned the plan when an intermediary they recruited to participate in the plot refused to participate.

Bijan Mortazavi  born November 16, 1957) is an Iranian virtuoso violinist, musician, composer, songwriter, arranger and singer

Carrie Marie Underwood (born March 10, 1983) is an American singer and songwriter. She rose to prominence after winning the fourth season of American Idol in 2005, returning as a judge beginning with the twenty-third season

The release of Trump’s official presidential portrait last week, ahead of today’s inauguration, completes a triptych of striking images that began with the circulation in late August 2023 of his booking photo, taken after he was indicted in Georgia for conspiring to overturn the results of the 2020 election