North Carolina

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has said he was on good terms with U.S. President Barack Obama in the past, but things have begun to change.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has said he was on good terms with U.S. President Barack Obama in the past, but things have begun to change.

U.S. President Barack Obama on Feb. 13 condemned the "brutal and outrageous" execution-style murders of three Muslim students in North Carolina at the hands of a neighbor who espoused anti-religious views.

On Jan. 10, three American college students were murdered at Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Unmistakably, they were all Muslims: Deah Shaddy Barakat (23), Yusor Mohammad (21) and Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha (19). And again unmistakably, their murderer, a 46-year-old man named Craig Stephen Hicks was a self-declared ?anti-theist? who wanted to see ?religion go away.?

The families of three Muslim students shot dead by a white neighbor in the US said an emotional farewell to their loved ones Feb. 12, reiterating calls for the killings to be treated as a hate crime.
      

Turkish President Tayyip Erdo?an on Feb. 12 criticized U.S. President Barack Obama for his silence following the killings of three young Muslims in North Carolina this week, in the latest sign relations between the two leaders have become strained.
   

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu has commented on the killings of three Muslim students in the United States, saying he hoped there was no racist motive behind the murders and calling for a joint attitude against Islamophobia.

Police have arrested a gunman in the killing of three Muslim students -- including a husband and wife -- in the university town of Chapel Hill in North Carolina, US news reports said Feb. 11.
      

The Muslim call to prayer will sound from a bell tower at North Carolina's Duke University every Friday, starting from Jan. 16, CNN has reported on its website.

The Duke Muslim Students Association will issue the call for the weekly service, it reported.

The call will last three minutes and will be only "moderately amplified," the university has elaborated.

A Bulgarian exchange student was killed in a hit and run accident in North Carolina, reports the local TV channel WTKR.

According to the police, Afen Zahariev, 21, was walking on Highway 12 near Corolla, when he was killed by a car.