Tag Archives: Turkey

Hytham Qassap, the only Syrian among six men arrested in Adana in May and charged with trying to obtain chemical weapons materials for the Al Nusrah Front and the Ahrar al Sham, was released pending trial; the five other suspects, all Turks, were all released after tests showed the materials seized were not sarin gas, […]

A senior commander in the Kurdistan Workers’ Party threatened civil war in Turkey if it does not engage in “deep and meaningful negotiations with the Kurdish movement.” The PKK also claims Turkey and preacher Fethullah Gulen have recruited Islamist “bandit groups” to fight Kurds in Syria. The European Union offered to open a new chapter […]

The military said it fired four artillery rounds at fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham near Azaz inside the Syrian border, claiming it was retaliating for a shell fired from the area that landed near a Turkish military post. The military’s statement marks the first time that it has fired at […]

Interior Minister Güler rejected opposition charges that the government had recently opened Turkish border gates in response to a threat from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. He also rejected the charge that ISIL was behind the Reyhanli border gate bombing that killed over 50 people; authorities have blamed the bombing on the […]