Kurdistan Freedom Hawks, an armed group known by the Kurdish-language acronym TAK, has claimed responsibility for Tuesday’s suicide bombing in the Turkish city of Istanbul which killed 11 people. The attack destroyed a police bus in central Istanbul during the morning rush hour near the main tourist district, a major[…]
Turkey has suspended sales of ammonium nitrate-based fertilizers frequently used by terrorists to produce homemade explosive devices. The measure comes in the wake of latest deadly blasts targeting police and security forces across the country. “As of yesterday, Turkey has banned the sale of fertilizers which could be used as[…]
Turkey’s president has approved amendments to the constitution that pave the way for the trials of some 138 legislators, including several pro-Kurdish lawmakers who face terror-related charges. The state-run Anadolu Agency said Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday ratified the changes which were put forward by the ruling party and finally[…]
A bomb attack targeting a police vehicle in a central Istanbul district has killed at least 11 people, including seven members of the police force, the city’s governor has said. “Seven police and four citizens lost their lives,” Vasip Sahin, Istanbul’s governor, told reporters at the scene on Monday. Thirty-six[…]
The German parliament has withstood a barrage of pressure from the Turkish government, approving a symbolic resolution that declares the 1915 massacre of Armenians by Ottoman Turkish forces a ‘genocide’. The vote was almost unanimous in supporting the resolution with just one MP voting against and another abstaining. The move[…]
At least six people have been killed and 20 injured in separate explosions in the Turkish towns of Silopi and Van located in the southeastern part of the country, which is mainly inhabited by Kurds, media reports, citing security sources. Both attacks targeted security forces. Four civilians have been killed[…]
Hundreds of journalists have gathered in Istanbul this week to participate in the second Palestine Media Forum to discuss the media’s role in reporting on the Palestinian issue. The conference is being held over a two day period which marks the 100 year anniversary since the Sykes-Picot agreement also known as[…]
Harrowing accounts by pre-teen victims of a rapist at Turkey’s Nizip refugee camp paint a picture of systematic abuse at the site designed to be a sanctuary. Amid the ongoing probe, neither reporters, nor opposition MPs are able to freely access the camp. Sputnik agency has obtained an indictment of[…]
A car bomb struck an armoured police vehicle in the Turkish city of Diyarbakir, killing three people and wounding at least 45, the governor’s office said in a statement. The explosion went off in the district of Baglar in the centre of the city, the state-run Anatolia news agency said. Al[…]
Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan has rejected easing anti-terror legislation in exchange for visa-free travel for Turkish citizens in the European Union. Erdogan told EU states, “We’ll go our way, you go yours,” in a statement released on Friday, just a day after the resignation of his Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu.[…]
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