With 1,006 personnel, Turkey has launched a new anti-terror operation in its eastern Tunceli province, the country’s Interior Ministry announced on Wednesday.
Read More »Turkey frees 2 Czechs jailed on terror charges
Two Czech nationals jailed in Turkey three years ago for belonging to a Kurdish militant group flew back to Prague Friday after being granted early release following months-long negotiations between Turkish and Czech officials.
Read More »Turkish secret service trade over ISIS women in Syria
Turkey has openly admitted that its secret service MIT is taking ISIS members out of the Hol Camp in northeast Syria.
Read More »Turkish police detain 27 people over links to Islamic State
Turkish police said on Sunday they had detained 27 people with links to the Islamic State militant group whom they suspect were preparing for an attack.
Read More »Turkey Says 17,000 Terrorists Eliminated So Far; 1900 Only In 2020
Turkish security forces have neutralized more than 17,000 terrorists since July 2015, the country’s defence minister said on Wednesday.
Read More »Turkey’s Generation Z Turns Against Erdogan
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s online address to students on June 26 was the latest sign that his efforts to shape Turkey’s young generation in his image have failed. Thousands of students joining the YouTube livestream disliked the video and used the comments section to criticize Erdogan and tell him …
Read More »Ex-paratrooper who fought Isil claims Turkey put pressure on Britain to charge him with terror offences
Daniel Burke was accused of terrorism offences after volunteering to help the Kurdish YPG fight against Isil in Syria.
Read More »President Erdogan declares Hagia Sophia a mosque after Turkish court ruling
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan declared Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia a mosque on Friday hours after a top court ruled the ancient building’s conversion to a museum by modern Turkey’s founding statesman was illegal.
Read More »Turkey arrests 42 over links to terror group PKK, including former HDP mayors
Forty-two people, including former mayors of the pro-PKK Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), were detained for their suspected links to the PKK, a designated terrorist group that has waged a decadeslong insurgency against Turkey.
Read More »Idlib to Tripoli: Turkey moves to dominate eastern Mediterranean
The first time Wael Amr got on a plane was not quite what he had hoped for. Air travel in films led him to imagine how glamorous it would be to leave Syria’s rebel-held Idlib province for an exotic holiday abroad.
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