{"id":35219,"date":"2019-03-13T11:23:36","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T11:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=35219"},"modified":"2019-03-13T11:23:36","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T11:23:36","slug":"netanyahu-hits-back-at-turkeys-dictator-erdogan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=35219","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu hits back at \u2018Turkey\u2019s dictator Erdogan\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"77\">\n<p>\nCAIRO:\u00a0Egypt is mourning the deaths of some of its leading scientists on board the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737-800 that crashed on Sunday near the capital Addis Ababa, killing 157 people.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe group included Dr. Ashraf El-Turki, head of the Department of Pesticide Research at Egypt\u2019s Agricultural Research Center, and a leading researcher in Africa and the Middle East. El-Turki had responsibility for the largest insect collection in the Middle East, which housed more than 6,000 species, and had carried out dozens of important studies related to agricultural quarantines and crop development in Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>\nAlso on the flight were assistant researcher Abdul Hamid Farraj and engineer Du\u2019aa Atif Abdul Salam. Both were traveling to Nairobi on an assignment dealing with genetic research to improve animal and plant production.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\nOther victims of the crash included Egyptian translators Susan Abu Faraj and Esmat Aransa, who were planning to join an official African Union mission in the Kenyan capital. The two had also worked as translators for several major international bodies.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe sixth victim was Nassar Al-Azb, a programmer in the computer department of Egyptian bank Banque Misr, who was on his way to Nairobi to attend a conference.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\nFriends on social media described Al-Azb as one of Egypt\u2019s top programmers.<\/p>\n<p>\nProf. Mahmoud Saqr, head of Egypt\u2019s Academy of Scientific Research and Technology, told Arab News that he received the news of the crash of the Ethiopian flight \u201cwith great sadness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nMeanwhile, a lawyer, Amr Abdelsalam, has urged the Attorney General Nabil Sadek to open an investigation into the crash of the Ethiopian Airlines flight, focusing on the deaths of the Egyptian scientists.<\/p>\n<p>\nAbdelsalam said in a statement that El-Turki and two of the other victims \u201cwere on a private and official task assigned by the state for the improvement of animal and vegetable production in light of Egypt\u2019s efforts to help in central Africa.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAIRO:\u00a0Egypt is mourning the deaths of some of its leading scientists on board the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737-800 that crashed on Sunday near the capital Addis Ababa, killing 157 people. The group included Dr. Ashraf El-Turki, head of the Department of Pesticide Research at Egypt\u2019s Agricultural Research Center, and a leading researcher in Africa and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}