Turkey’s Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has blamed Syria’s PKK-linked YPG group for a blast in the capital, Ankara, that killed at least 28 people. The Turkish leader used the speech on Thursday to call on the country’s allies to pick a side. Davutoglu blamed the suicide attack on a Syrian[…]
At least 28 people have been killed and 61 more wounded in a large explosion targeting a military vehicle in heart of the Turkish capital of Ankara. Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr, reporting from Gaziantep, said officials believe a car bomb had caused the explosion on Wednesday evening and the target[…]
Turkey wants to create a secure zone 10km within Syria, which would include the town of Azaz, Deputy Prime Minister Yalcin Akdogan stated, as cited by Reuters. The move comes after Ankara’s shelling of Syrian Kurds for four successive days. “What we want is to create a secure strip, including[…]
Syria’s foreign ministry has condemned Turkey’s shelling of Kurdish fighters in northern Syria and sent two letters voicing its concern to the United Nations, Syrian state media reported. “Turkish artillery shelling of Syrian territory constitutes direct support to the armed terrorist organisations,” the ministry told the UN Secretary General and[…]
“It is obvious that these remarks are more of propaganda slogans. The means and capabilities of countries are completely clear and with these propagandist bluffs, none of their problems will get resolved,” Zarif said upon his arrival in Brussels early on Monday to discuss key regional issues with European Union[…]
A five-storey building has collapsed in dramatic fashion in the centre of Istanbul, but Turkish authorities say that no one was believed to be trapped under the rubble. The building collapsed on Friday in a street near Istanbul’s pedestrian Istiklal Avenue, a main shopping district in the popular Taksim area.[…]
Ankara has completed its military op against Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) rebels in Turkey’s southeastern town of Cizre, its Interior Minister has announced. Hundreds of Kurds were killed in the fighting, including some 60 people trapped in a basement. “The operations in Cizre were completed in a very successful fashion,”[…]
Around 60 people have reportedly been killed in the basement of a building in the southeastern Kurdish town of Cizre in a military raid which, according to state media, was conducted in order to neutralize PKK fighters. The Turkish army conducted the raid to allegedly clear out a basement in[…]
A car bomb blast near a police building in a Kurdish-majority province in southeastern Turkey has killed five people and injured more than 30 others, officials told Al Jazeera. The bomb attack, blamed by officials on the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), caused heavy damage to outer walls of the[…]
At least 27 people, including three children, have drowned off Turkey’s Aegean coast after their boat capsized in rough seas. Seventeen of the bodies were discovered on the shoreline in the district of Ayvalik, while ten others were found in the district of Dikili, a gendarmerie official in the local[…]
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