An arrested Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) member hung himself on April 20 in his cell in the southern province of Hatay.
Syrian-origin Nedim Belluş, 35, was found hung from his bunk bed in his cell at Hatay's Iskenderun M-Type (...)
Two unknown assailants have opened fire at a riot police station in Istanbul's Bayrampaşa district.
Initial reports indicate two women inside a commercial vehicle opened fire at the station and fled the scene after abandoning their car.
Police (...)
Turkish warplanes conducted a wide-scale air operation on Feb. 17 targeting outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) positions in northern Iraq.
The Turkish Air Force jets targeted around a group of 70 including the top executives of the PKK in the (...)
Turkey and Saudi Arabia will hold joint military drills as part of a decision to strategically cooperate against common threats, sources have told daily Hurriyet.
Turkish Chief of General Staff Hulusi Akar's visit to Saudi Arabia in late January, (...)
A fire broke out at the construction site of a twelve-story hotel in the Maltepe district of Istanbul on Jan. 12.
Firefighters managed to rescue workers trapped inside, who were later transferred to a hospital.
Firefighting work is still ongoing to (...)
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has condemned the Jan. 12 explosion in Istanbul's touristic Sultanahmet neighborhood, which killed 10 and injured 15, describing it as a suicide attack of Syrian origin.
"Unfortunately, we have casualties in (...)
A police officer was killed in an operation against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in a town under curfew in southeastern Turkey on Jan. 12, security officials stated.
The officer was injured during a security operation in the Cizre (...)
A serious crisis erupted between Turkey and Russia following the downing of a Russian SU-24 fighter by a Turkish F16 warplane over Turkish airspace along the Turkish-Syrian border on Nov. 24.
My personal belief is that this crisis is utterly (...)
As Russia has detained eight commercial ships flying Turkish flags in the Black Sea since the jet crisis erupted between the two countries, Turkey has detained a total of 27 Russian ships in a retaliatory move, as reported by daily Haberturk on Dec. (...)
The United States has withdrawn its F-15 warplanes deployed to the İncirlik air base in southern Turkey, the EUCOM has said in a written statement.
"The Air Force F-15 Eagles and Strike Eagles deployed to İncirlik ... are returning to RAF (...)
Russia is due to conduct an observation flight over Turkish territory on Dec. 14-18, under the framework of the Open Skies Treaty, Turkish officials have told the Hürriyet Daily News.
The flight was postponed in October on Ankara's request amid a (...)
Thousands of teachers working in Turkey's southeastern provinces of Cizre and Silopi have started fleeing to their hometowns, less than 24 hours before the announcement of indeterminate curfews in the two towns.
Teachers from different parts of the (...)
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview on Czech Television that Turkey's downing of a Russian jet due to airspace violation was because of the Turkish President Erdoğan's dissatisfaction with the developments in Syria with the (...)
The number of migrants saved after making failed attempts to cross via sea from Turkey into Europe has increased by over 500 percent in 2015 compared to last year.
In 2014, the number of migrants rescued by Turkey's coast guard and local (...)
The leaders of Turkey and Russia discussed the future of Syria and President Bashar al-Assad's fate following a Vienna agreement in a tête-à-tête late Nov. 15 on the sidelines of the G-20 Summit in the southern resort of Antalya.
President Recep (...)
Billionaire Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump said on Nov. 16 that the United States should "strongly consider" shuttering some mosques as part of its efforts to prevent extremist attacks in the country.
"You're going to have to watch and (...)
A joint operation by the United States and Britain targeted the British leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), "Jihadi John," was based on intelligence shared by Turkey's National Intelligence Organization (MİT).
Kuwaiti-born (...)
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said Nov. 14 that countries participating in a one-day conference on Syria had decided to start immediate talks with opposition groups there.
He told reporters outside the talks that the countries (...)
Some 82 migrants in four inflatable boats, in attempt to illegally reach the Greek island of Kos, have been captured by Coast Guard teams on Nov. 8.
The weather conditions and current, along with the high number of boat passengers, have raised risks (...)
Turkey has ramped up its domestic security efforts against suspected Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) militants with detentions and deportations at the country's largest airport, after recent deadly suicide bombings and uncovered planned (...)
Two police officers were injured early on Nov. 8 in Istanbul when unknown assailants opened fire on a police vehicle.
The incident occurred after police officers inside two patrol vehicles stopped a white car for inspection in Istanbul's (...)
One person has been killed and 20 people have been wounded in a blast which started a fire in Turkey's southeastern province of Mardin.
The blast took place at around 10:00 p.m. on Nov. 1 in the Selahaddin Eyyubi neighborhood of Mardin's Nusaybin (...)
A total of 24 of around 50 suspects of Tajik and Uzbek origin, who were detained for having links to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) in Istanbul on Oct. 18, have been revealed to be children being trained in basement apartments in (...)
Six suspects, including a Syrian national, have been arrested over illegal boat journeys for migrant trafficking, after a boat capsized off a western Turkish, killing 12 migrants, the state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.
The suspects, identified (...)
An Ankara criminal court of peace ordered the arrest of the four suspects late Oct. 18 after an interrogation which lasted about seven hours. The two other suspects were released with a judicial control decision.
A man who allegedly guided Yunus (...)