Turkish police have briefly clashed with protesters in Istanbul after putting the city under a security lockdown in a bid to thwart demonstrations on a tense Labour Day. Al Jazeera’s Can Hasasu, reporting from Istanbul’s central Besiktas district, said about 2,000 people from leftist groups had gathered there before Friday’s[…]
The Armenian community of the Holy Land this week marks the 100th anniversary of the beginning of a series of massacres and pogroms against the community in their ancestral homeland in Eastern Anatolia. Large numbers of the community’s approximately 5,000 members in Palestine are expected to take part in commemorations[…]
Council of Europe chief Thorbjoern Jagland on Wednesday urged Armenia and Turkey to reestablish relations. Speaking in the Armenian capital Yerevan ahead of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide, Jagland said that: “If there is a chance of returning to the 2009 protocols, establishing diplomatic relations, I urge both[…]
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said the pope’s remarks describing Armenians as the victims of “the first genocide of the 20th century” are wrong and encourage racism in Europe. Pope Francis made the comments at a special remembrance mass in St Peter’s Basilica on Sunday. Turkey immediately recalled its ambassador[…]
Turkish security forces have carried out an operation to rescue a prosecutor held captive at an Istanbul courthouse, killing the two hostage-takers. Selami Altiok, the city’s police chief, said in a news conference on Tuesday that the attackers had been shot dead and that prosecutor Mehmet Selim Kiraz was critically[…]
Members of a banned leftist group took a chief prosecutor hostage in his office Tuesday inside a court house in Istanbul, Turkish news agencies said. Police said negotiators were speaking to two hostage takers in attempts to end the standoff. “There is no problem concerning any of our colleagues. Our[…]
A Turkish Airlines flight en route to Sao Paulo has declared an emergency following a bomb threat and landed at Casablanca airport, a spokeswoman for the airline said. The flight, TK15, had departed from Istanbul on Monday and landed in the Moroccan city after a note was found warning there[…]
The Gift of the Givers managed to reunite a 9 year old Syrian child with her mother on Friday morning, after being apart for three years. The girl Sundus Ali Besheer was separated from her mother Khalide in February 2012 at the tender age of 6 years as a result[…]
A Turkish man was handed a prison sentence of 13 year and nine month for insulting the national flag during a protest in the predominantly-Kurdish south-east of the country, local media reported Friday. Prosecutors had accused the man of carrying out the act in the name of a radical organization,[…]
A Turkish government official says to eliminate a root cause of radical, European countries must give their Muslim residents greater opportunities and more reasons for hope. Volkan Bozkir, Turkey’s minister for European affairs, said Saturday that many Muslims living in Europe “now feel they are the other.” Bozkir called that[…]
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