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Police have called on locals living in the Karkamış district of the border province Kilis to evacuate the area for their life security, following a series of mortar shells fired from Syrian territory, Doğan News Agency has reported
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Photographs showing top commanders, including Chief of General Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar, being forcibly abducted by pro-coup soldiers at the military headquarters, was broadcast by Turkish broadcaster Haber 7 on Aug. 23
Kati Piri, the rapporteur of the European Parliament on Turkey, has begun her two-day trip to the country by visiting the Ankara office of CNN Türk to hail the role of the broadcaster on the night of July 15 in thwarting the military coup attempt
The Turkish military backed operations to take a northern Syrian town along the Turkish border controlled by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) by shelling their targets on Aug. 23, after mortar shells and rockets hit two Turkish provinces
It is of vital importance that a “new page” is opened in Syria with a model that includes Turkey, Iran, Russia, the U.S, Gulf countries, and Saudi Arabia, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım said on Aug. 22
A total of 586 colonels have been retired from the army according to decisions taken at a meeting of Turkey’s Supreme Military Council (YAŞ) on Aug. 23, which convened for the second time in less than a month after the failed coup attempt of July 15
Turkey and the United States will hold high-level talks in Ankara on Aug. 24, as U.S. Vice President Joe Biden will arrive in the Turkish capital as the highest ranking American official to pay a visit to the NATO ally since the July 15 coup attempt
The leader of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) has said there was a “serious intelligence failure” regarding the alleged Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) suicide attack on a wedding in the Şahinbey district of the southeastern province of Gaziantep
Turkey has “no clue” about who was behind the attack on a wedding in a town close to the Syrian border that left 54 people dead, Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım said late on Aug. 22
The leaders of Turkey’s ruling party and two oppositional parties have agreed to discuss expanding the scope of upcoming constitutional amendments by including 60 articles which had previously been agreed to
Turkey will lend all kinds of support for military operations in Jarablus, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has said
Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) President Masoud Barzani arrived in Ankara on Aug. 23 for a series of key talks, one day before U.S. Vice President Joe Biden’s planned visit to the Turkish capital
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The chair of Turkish Airlines (THY) has said that THY pilots could work in both the private sector and the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK), a practice “similar to the one in the United States”
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Turkish and Greek Cypriot leaders began a marathon of seven meetings on Aug. 23, which Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akıncı has said were crucial as they would set the basis of a quintet conference for a peaceful solution of the conflict that could be established before the U.N. General Assembly in September
Turkey’s Central Bank cut borrowing costs for the sixth straight month on Aug. 23, lowering its overnight lending rate by 25 basis points despite high inflation and worries about possible credit rating downgrades
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A court in Ankara ruled for the arrest of 38 people and released nine others under judicial supervision late on Aug. 22 in the ongoing probe into leaked secretly-taped video footage involving opposition party figures
Legal experts and diplomats from Turkey and the United States have initiated work on the former’s demand for the immediate extradition of Fethullah Gülen from the U.S., a day before U.S. Vice President Joe Biden is set to pay a one-day visit to Turkey
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said that cooperation with Turkey within the scope of the European Union’s migrant deal was right and without that deal the bloc would not be able to fight human smugglers
Israel and Turkey have traded barbs over the recent attacks on the Gaza strip by Israeli forces, after a rocket fired from the Palestinian enclave crashed into the Israeli city of Sderot on Aug. 21
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NGOs in Turkey’s east and southeast have called on the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to “refrain from violent acts and end violence” in a joint statement signed by a total of 61 people
DİYARBAKIR
A deputy governor in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır has been spurned after making an extraordinary marriage proposal to a judge who has been detained over alleged links to the Gülen movement
Elif Ergu - ISTANBUL
The 19-year-old daughter of the owner of Koton, one of Turkey’s leading clothing brands, has created jobs for more than 800 women across Turkey, mainly in the southeastern region, through a project
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Oliver North was the U.S. military officer involved in the Iran-Contra scandal of the CIA back in the 1980s
Comment(s)8/24/2016
Turkey lost another 54 of its nationals in yet another bloody terrorist attack late on Aug. 20, as a teenage suicide bomber exploded him or herself during a wedding ceremony in the Şahinbey district of the southern province of Gaziantep
Recently, during a discussion on an international news channel I asked the other participants about what would happen if Turkey attacked the Syrian Democratic Union Party (PYD)
On June 7, 2015 Turks went to the ballot boxes and deprived the ruling party, the Justice and Development (AKP), of its parliamentary majority for the first time since it came to power in November 2002
The other day, a suicide bomber who appears to have been enlisted by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) exploded himself in the middle of a wedding ceremony in the southeastern Turkish city of Gaziantep. More than 50 people died immediately at the site
This week’s visit to Turkey by U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden may well be a turning point in U.S.-Turkish relations
If Rinaldo Marmara had not reminded me, it would have been forgotten among thousands of pieces of news
Days after U.S. Vice President Joe Biden’s visit to Turkey was announced for Aug. 24, a major attack by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) shook the Turkish city of Gaziantep near the Syrian border
Recent archaeological works in İzmir’s ancient city of Metropolis have unearthed a bath structure considered one of the best-preserved brick vault structures in the world
The Culture and Tourism Ministry’s restoration lab in the northwestern province of Bursa is working to prolong the life of historic artifacts on display in museums or seized from treasure hunters
The Istanbul Geology Museum is the first private geology museum in Turkey. It displays thousands of fossil, mineral and rock samples from billions of years ago
One of my earlier memories of childhood on Boyalık beach, a popular coast near the Aegean city of İzmir, is my mother leaning from the balcony and shouting, her voice dominating the sound of the waves and the wind: “Nazlan, you get away from that man right away.”
As caretta caretta hatchlings, the struggling young members of the endangered sea turtle species, start to hit the sea on Turkey’s Mediterranean coasts, an expert has warned locals and tourists not to intervene in their habitat and refrain from feeding or touching them
A new documentary project focusing on the Silk Road in the Seljuk era has been shot in part at the Kültepe Kaniş Karum Mound in the Central Anatolian province of Kayseri, where Assyrian traders exchanged goods some 4,000 years ago
The 12th International D-Marin Classical Music Festival, which opened on Aug. 20 in the western town of Bodrum, will continue tonight with a concert by Spanish singer Monica Molina
EMRAH'S POPDATE - The theme of the return home is one that has been explored numerous times in recent Turkish films, to varying degrees of success
Comment(s)8/22/2016
Rio surely is a town of sharp contrasts. Few cities in the world have such a dramatic setting
Turkey consumer confidence rose by 11.1 percent in August from the previous month, data from the Turkish Statistics Institute (TÜİK) showed on Aug. 23