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One Turkish soldier was killed and five others were wounded on Dec. 19 in a car bomb attack in the al-Bab region in Syria during the Euphrates Shield Operation, the Turkish Armed Forces has announced
Comment(s)12/19/2016
The government should take political responsibility for the failure to prevent terror attacks in Turkey, according to the country’s main opposition leader
Turkey has proposed that the European Union sets a new schedule for the visa liberalization deal for Turkish citizens, as part of the troubled March 18 deal
Turkey continued diplomatic efforts to secure the evacuation of civilians from Aleppo late on Dec. 18, with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan speaking to Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu speaking to his Iranian counterpart Javad Zarif
Turkey suffers yet another terror attack as a car bomb kills at least 14 off-duty soldiers in Kayseri in the second such attack in a week
Exactly a week after a suicide bomb attack in Beşiktaş that killed 46 people and wounded 166 on Dec. 10, the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) carried out another suicide attack which killed 14 and wounded 56 in the Central Anatolian province of Kayseri on Dec. 17
Students in Turkey continue to struggle on basic concepts following years of tinkering with the system, according to an education reporter with daily Hürriyet. Each minister has played with the essential tenets of the system, according to Nuran Çakmakçı
Although the discovery of huge hydrocarbon reserves in the Eastern Mediterranean has created a significant opportunity for a solution to the Cyprus question, energy alone may not be enough for a solution
A group of people marched on the provincial branch office of the opposition Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) in the Central Anatolian province of Kayseri on Dec. 17, attacking and inflicting damage to the property in an act that was repeated in several other provinces
World leaders and other members of the international community have expressed their condolences and condemnation following the Dec. 17 car bomb attack in the Central Anatolian province of Kayseri which killed 14 soldiers and wounded 56 others
Turkey’s leading business organizations have strongly condemned and expressed sorrow over a deadly terror attack in the Central Anatolian province of Kayseri early on Dec. 17, which left at least 14 soldiers killed and 56 people wounded
Comment(s)12/18/2016
The Interior Ministry appointed a trustee to the Akdeniz Municipality in the southern province of Mersin on Dec. 18, replacing detained co-mayor Yüksel Mutlu from the Kurdish issue-focused Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), Doğan News Agency has reported
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KAYSERİ
At least 14 soldiers were killed and 56 people wounded after a car bomb attack in the Central Anatolian province of Kayseri early on Dec. 17, Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu said after the second major terror attack to rock Turkey in less than a week
Comment(s) 12/17/2016
ASIA
ASTANA - Anadolu Agency
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev discussed in a phone call with his Turkish and Russian counterparts the possibility of hosting Syria talks in Astana
Comment(s) 12/18/2016
ALEPPO / BEIRUT
Rebels and pro-government forces have reached a deal to resume evacuations from east Aleppo as long as people are allowed to leave two Shiite villages besieged by insurgents and two other towns, Syrian state television reported on Dec. 18
ANKARA
Some 217 Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) targets were hit on Dec. 18 in northern Syria as part of the Euphrates Shield Operation, the Turkish Armed Forces has announced
ISTANBUL
A 31-year-old woman suspected of murdering Turkish author Beki İkala Erikli was arrested on Dec. 17 along with the gun used in the attack late last week
ÇANAKKALE / BURDUR
Over 180 illegal migrants have been caught in the northwestern province of Çanakkale and the southwestern province of Burdur
TAV Construction, which has gained plaudits for its projects in the Middle East and Gulf Region, was named the world’s largest company in airport construction for 2016, the company said in a statement on Dec. 16
ANKARA - Anadolu Agency
The Central Administration Budget Law Draft and the 2015 Decentralized Administrative Settlement Law Draft were approved by parliament’s General Assembly late on Dec. 16
Union of Turkish Bar Associations (TTB) head Metin Feyzioğlu has said the arrest of Doğan Group Ankara Administrative Representative Barbaros Muratoğlu may have “ignored the rule of law” and was difficult to understand
GAZA CITY – Agence France-Presse
Palestinian Islamist group Hamas said on Dec. 17 a Tunisian engineer murdered in the North African country was one of its leaders, accused Israel of the killing and vowed to avenge him
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Within the span of just a week, two terror attacks have killed dozens of police, soldiers and civilians, first in central Istanbul and then in Kayseri. The blast in Istanbul felt like an earthquake in my flat, which is located just a 10-minute walk from the site of the explosions
It is not easy to be an intellectual in Turkey. It is even more difficult to be a diva. Like her or not, Demet Akbağ has become synonymous with extraordinarily good performance not only on the theater stage, but at every moment of her life
No, I’m not talking about chemical weapons. I don’t have any theories regarding the claim that “they have spread viruses through the air.”
Watching the evening news on television, I saw the U.S. Permanent Representative in the U.N., Samantha Power, in the carefree and relaxed mood of a university campus student, attacking Iran, Russia and Syria
As the year is coming to a close, an interesting analysis recently published on the Politico website gives a vivid picture of the EU’s strategic intention for further enlargement. That is a target that several countries, including Turkey, still aim to reach.
It is clear to many that climate talks under the U.N. are not satisfactory for the global community, even though the Paris Agreement on climate change is underway
This is not the story of the overcoat of the impoverished government clerk in 19th century Russian writer Nikolai Gogol’s masterpiece “The Overcoat.” This is the story of the overcoat of a Turkish journalist in prison.
Comment(s)12/17/2016
The performances of the amateur child actors in ‘Mavi Bisiklet’ (Blue Bicycle) mostly make up for the plot holes and uneven pace of Ümit Köreken’s award-winning debut feature
Onions make you cry. Anyone who ever chopped one knows that. No kitchen is devoid of onions, but a professional kitchen has more reasons than an onion for crying
World-renowned Turkish pianist Fazıl Say received the International Beethoven Prize, one of the world’s most prestigious awards given by the Bonn-based Beethoven Academy, on Dec. 17
Beşiktaş suffered its first defeat of the Spor Toto Super League season on Dec. 17, losing 2-1 at tiny city rival Kasımpaşa
Artworks on display in İzmir reflect the difficult year that 2016 has been for women, children and nature
There are now about 1,800 emoji characters and counting. Shigetaka Kurita, the man who created the emoji characters, is still surprised by the success of his idea.
Turkish megastar Tarkan will take the stage in the United States for a series of concerts in New York and Los Angeles organized by the SM Production Group in March.
The Anna Laudel Contemporary gallery is launched in Istanbul with an inaugural exhibition ‘When Did We Stop Playing?’ curated by Isabel Bernheimer
Comment(s)12/16/2016
Earthquakes that have occurred throughout history in Istanbul are being studied through a collaboration between archaeologists and geophysicists – with the aim to predict the next one