Tag: Turkey
Dozens of people gathered Saturday, November 5 at the premises of the Turkish opposition newspaper Cumhuriyet to support journalists from the daily 9 detained by an Istanbul court.
At least three people were killed and 120 others injured Thursday in a car bomb attack occurred in the east, in Elazig, a conservative stronghold and Turkish nationalist in eastern Turkey so far spared the Kurdish conflict , according to a security source. The attack, attributed to the Kurdish rebellion, came hours after a suicide […]
At least 90 people have been killed and more than 1000 wounded following an attempted military coup in Turkey. More than 1500 military personnel have also been arrested.
Prominent Turkish opposition journalists Can Dundar and Erdem Gul have been sentenced to five years and ten months and five years respectively for revealing state secrets. Dundar, the Editor-in-Chief of Cumhuriyet newspaper and Gul, the daily’s Ankara bureau chief, were convicted for publishing footage purporting to show Turkish state intelligence transporting weapons into Syria in […]
A bomb blast has occurred in the center of the Turkish capital of Ankara, killing at least 27 people and injuring 75 more, the governor’s office said. The explosion took place near the Guven park in the Kizilay district of central Ankara on Sunday. A senior security official said the blast was apparently caused by […]
Turkey has released two prominent journalists after the country’s top court ruled that their detention had violated their rights. Can Dundar, the editor-in-chief of the Cumhuriyet newspaper, and Erdem Gul, the paper’s Ankara bureau chief, have been released pending their trial in March on espionage charges. They were arrested in November… Dundar and Gul were […]
Driven for days to flee the war in Aleppo, thousands of Syrians, mostly women and children, are waiting in the cold to go to Turkey that for the moment keeps its border closed. The governor of the Turkish province of Kilis, Suleyman Tapsiz, discussed the “possibility” that this wave reaches 70,000. Thousands of homeless Syrians […]
Two Turkish police forces and seven members of the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group have been killed in clashes in Turkey’s southeastern province of Diyarbakir, security sources say. The development came early on Monday after police forces raided a dozen houses in the Kayapinar district of the mainly Kurdish province of Diyarbakir. According to the sources, […]
Several thousand migrants and refugees spend Friday (September 18) night in an open-air sports arena after another failed attempt to walk to Turkey’s land border with Greece. Their progress towards the EU was halted by Turkish authorities because Greece has not offered to accept them. “This passage is not possible,” Dursun Ali Sahin said in […]
Two people died and more than 100 were injured after two explosions rocked a large Kurdish party election rally in southeast Turkey on Friday, the country’s Agriculture Minister Mehdi Eker said. The blasts occurred five minutes apart at the rally of the pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party, or HDP, as party leader Selahattin Demirtas was preparing […]
