A documentary has been made about the escape of Moroccans from an Air Arabia Maroc plane flying from Casablanca to Istanbul. The plane had made an emergency landing at Palma de Mallorca airport on November 5, 2021.
French athlete of Moroccan origin Azeddine Habz won the bronze medal, Friday, March 3, in the 1500m event at the European Indoor Championships in Istanbul, Turkey. A first for France.
While a plane from Casablanca bound for Istanbul had just made an emergency landing at Barcelona airport, nearly thirty passengers fled.
Istanbul was the target of a deadly attack on Sunday, November 13, 2022, which killed at least six people and injured 81. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in coordination with the Moroccan Consulate General, has set up a crisis unit to monitor the situation of Moroccans on the spot.
The young Moroccan Ilias Senhaji was named "Top model of universe 2022", a competition aimed at selecting the future faces of the fashion world, which took place in Istanbul, Turkey.
For its first match at the Amputee Football World Cup, Morocco beat Ireland (6-0) at the "TFF Riva" stadium in Istanbul. A very good start for the national team, which intends to go far in this competition taking place from September 30 to October 9, with the participation of 24 teams.
Towards a new consecration for the Moroccan boxer Khadija El Mardi (81 kg) who has qualified for the final of the women’s world boxing championship taking place from May 6 to 21, 2022 in Istanbul, Turkey.
A fight broke out between two drunken Moroccan passengers during a Casablanca-Istanbul flight, forcing the captain to make an emergency landing at El Prat airport in Barcelona. While the two passengers were arrested by the civil guards, eleven other Moroccans tried to get off the plane.
The airline Air Arabia Maroc has announced the launch, in this November, of direct flights from Tangier and Fez to Istanbul.
While she was with her husband on a plane connecting Istanbul to Chicago on the Turkish Airlines airline, a Moroccan woman gave birth to a baby boy.
A British man of Syrian origin, Jorane Mohammed Atta, residing in Istanbul, stabbed his partner, Samira El Khadir, a 38-year-old Moroccan woman, to death on Sunday, February 14. The discovery of the woman’s infidelity was the motive for this crime.
With the closure of international borders, access to the European area via Turkey has become an impossible mission for Moroccan immigration candidates. While some manage to find their way back, the majority are in Turkish prisons.