9NEWS October 10, 2015: The moment a blast tore the ranks of a Turkish peace protest has been captured on camera by a shocked bystander. FTBA The horrific moment an explosion rocked a peace rally in the Turkish capital of Ankara, killing at least 20, has been captured on video, […]
Source: Reuters OCT 4, 2015 By Robin Emmott BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan makes a long-awaited trip to Brussels on Sunday, officially a two-day state visit to Belgium, […]
By Hasnain Kazim, Maximilian Popp and Samiha Shafy Emin Ozmen/ Le Journal/ DER SPIEGEL No other state has catapulted itself into the future quite as rapidly, nor relapsed back into its dark past as suddenly, as Turkey. First there was modernization, and now the beginnings of a civil war. The […]
‘We Want a Massacre’: Turkish-Kurdish Tensions Escalate as Election Looms By Hasnain Kazim DPA A boy peers through a hole in a damaged wall along a street in the city of Sirnak, near Cizre, southeastern Turkey. Earlier this summer, tit-for-tat violence between the Turkish government and the country’s Kurdish minority […]
ISTANBUL Turkish security forces patrolled the shores of Muğla, finding the bodies of several refugees, including a child, who drowned and were washed ashore. DHA photos World must help Turkey with refugees as ‘things will get even worse’: UNHCR At least 12 migrants believed to be Syrians drowned as two […]
EMRE GÖNEN Published A dinghy overcrowded with Syrian refugees approaches a beach on the Greek island of Kos after crossing a part of the Aegean Sea from Turkey to Greece. The Syrian refugee crisis is spreading not just among its neighbors but toward Europe, especially Greece. Therefore, a global […]
YASEMIN SAKAY ISTANBUL As the third and final round of coalition talks on Thursday between the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) and Republican People’s Party (CHP) yielded no results, three choices await Turkey in forming a government. While snap elections seem the most probable option, a minority government or […]
Aug 13,2015 – JORDAN TIMES – RAMI G. KHOURI The four separate armed attacks Monday against Turkish security forces and the US consulate in Istanbul are all repeat performances of similar attacks in recent years, so we can easily see this as simply another rough day for Turkey but not […]
US consulate in Turkey targeted as wave of attacks kills 9 Yesim DikmenSeyhmus Cakan| Reuters ISTANBUL/DIYABAKIR: Two women shot at the U.S. consulate inIstanbul Monday and at least eight people were killed in a wave of separate attacks on Turkish security forces, weeks after Ankaralaunched a crackdown on ISIS, Kurdish […]
As Turkey recently ‘joined’ the US assault on the IS militant group in Syria, their renewed attacks on PKK separatists have resulted in an end to a two-year peace treaty with the Kurdish Workers’ Party Bassem Aly , Wednesday 5 Aug 2015 Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan (C), flanked by Prime […]
Posted by Bethan McKernan A Turkish couple who got married last week invited 4,000 Syrian refugees to celebrate with them. Fethullah Üzümcüoğlu and Esra Polat tied the knot in Kilis province on […]
By Nick Tattersall KARKAMIS, Turkey (Reuters) – Packets of cigarettes and tea gathering dust in his one-room store, Mustafa Karatas doubts a joint U.S.-Turkish plan to flush Islamic State militants from the Syrian border will make much difference to his business any time soon. This main commercial street in Karkamis, […]
Aug 02,2015 – JORDAN TIMES – Amer Al Sabaileh The Turkish military intervention against the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) and Daesh marks a new turning point in the Syrian crisis. Undeniably, many questions could be raised regarding the timing and the real objectives of this move. Turkey has played a major […]
By Maximilian Popp and Christoph Reuter spiegel.de OZAN KOSE/ AFP Turkish President Erdogan claims to be battling the terrorist Islamic State, but in reality he is mainly fighting against Kurds and the PKK. By doing so, he has shown that he is willing to derail the peace process […]
(CNN)—Turkey arrested nearly 600 terror suspects as warplanes intensified attacks against ISIS and other militant targets in a daylong operation, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Saturday. The strikes also targeted […]
TULU GÜMÜŞTEKIN@GumustekinTulu Published13 hours ago With the region in chaos on the one hand and the attitude of the Assad regime in Syria leading to a dangerous deadlock on the other, ISIS has become a fully-fledged armed terrorist group challenging an entire region The total disappearance of the Syrian state […]
ISIS, PKK and the uses of terrorism İBRAHIM KALIN@ikalin1 Although acting with different motivations, ISIS and the PKK both employ similar tactics and goals to maintain their presence in the region, carrying out terrorist attacks A series of terrorist attacks claimed close to 40 lives this week in Turkey. […]
Erdoğan’s stances against Israel made him a hero in the eyes of Arabs, something they don’t usually see in their leaders Yeni Şafak | Haya Al-Atassi | 22 July 2015, 17:37 The mosques are our barracks The domes our helmets The minarets our bayonets The faithful our soldiers This sacred army guards […]
JULY 21, 2015 | By George Friedman In my “Net Assessment of the World,” I argued that four major segments of the European and Asian landmass were in crisis: Europe, Russia, the Middle East (from the Levant to Iran) and China. Each crisis was different; each was at a different […]
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Monday that he condemns the perpetrators of atrocity committed in Suruç district of Turkey’s southeast and that terror has no religion, language, ethnicity or race. The president made the comments on his visit to the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) upon the invitation […]