Tag Archives: Turkey

Iraq

| May 23, 2014

Iraqi Kurdistan makes first oil sale amid exports row

Egypt

| May 20, 2014

How the army is taking revenge against Islamists in Libya

Turkey

| May 19, 2014

Authorities detonated a suspect package found outside the US Embassy in Ankara. The founder of a popular online forum was given a 10-month suspended sentence for blasphemy; he was among 40 members charged with insulting religion. “Smugglers” from Syria attacked a military border post at Hacıpaşa in Hatay province.

Turkey

| May 9, 2014

The public prosecutor’s office in Adana is seeking life sentences for 13 gendarmes who on Jan. 19 stopped, searched, and filmed the contents of trucks that reportedly were carrying arms into Syria. A similar incident, allegedly involving the Humanitarian Aid Foundation (İHH), also occurred on Jan. 1 in Hatay. The government has already removed the […]

Belgium

| May 8, 2014

Belgium, Allies Try to Halt Flow of Young Islamist Fighters to Syria

Turkey

| May 6, 2014

Authorities claimed that the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has kidnapped 331 children in the last six months. According to a National Police report, the Kurdistan Communities Union and the PKK have set up 48 training centers throughout 10 provinces, instructing 8,500 young people in tactics and ideology.

Turkey

| April 30, 2014

The day after reports emerged that Prime Minister Erdogan was seeking to extradite influential Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen from the US, sources in the Ankara Prosecutor’s office said no investigation has yet been launched against Gulen; his activities may be investigated, however, in relation to the leak of a conversation of top Turkish officials discussing […]

Turkey

| April 23, 2014

Prime Minister Erdogan confirmed that Turkey sent a convoy to protect the tomb of Suleyman Shah, a tiny piece of Turkish territory inside Syria’s province of Aleppo. Turkey reportedly deployed six tanks and 12 armored vehicles within 200 meters of positions held by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham. In late March, Turkish […]

France

| April 20, 2014

Kidnapped French journalists: we were chained together in underground cells

Turkey

| April 15, 2014

Syrian rebels and eyewitnesses claimed that Turkey had allowed Islamist rebels to enter Syria for the Kasab offensive; the Erdogan government denied the claim. An Adana prosecutor who in January stopped and searched trucks on suspicion they were carrying weapons into Syria has been removed from his post and reassigned; two officers arrested in the […]