A state-run Turkish news agency says an 80-vehicle pileup on a highway near Istanbul has left one person dead and 29 injured. A Japanese national was among those hurt.
The Anadolu Agency says the accident happened Saturday morning near the town of (...)
AlHijjah 17, 1432, Nov 13, 2011, SPA -- Rescue workers on Sunday ended their search for survivors of an earthquake in eastern Turkey, while the number of bodies pulled from the rubble of collapsed buildings climbed to 39, dpa quoted local media as (...)
AlHijjah 16, 1432, Nov 12, 2011, SPA -- The first heavy snows of winter piled misery on thousands of earthquake survivors in eastern Turkey on Saturday as Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan visited the quake zone amid rising anger among homeless families (...)
AlHijjah 4, 1432, Oct 31, 2011, SPA - Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari arrived here on Sunday in response to an invitation extended to him by Turkish President Abdullah Gul to participate in the sixth trilateral summit being hosted by Turkey to (...)
AlHijjah 2, 1432, Oct 29, 2011, SPA - The death toll from the earthquake in east Turkey rose to 570 people on Friday, according to broadcasting station CNN
Turk. Some 2,555 people were reported injured.
The increased death toll came just hours (...)
AlHijjah 1, 1432, Oct 28, 2011, SPA -- The death toll in the earthquake which hit eastern Turkey on Sunday has risen to 570, with 2,555 people injured, the Disaster and Emergency Administration said on Friday, Reuters reported.
In a statement, it (...)
AlQa'dah 29, 1432, Oct 27, 2011, SPA -- The death toll in an earthquake that hit southeast Turkey on Sunday has risen to 523, with 1,650 people injured, Reuters cited the Disaster and Emergency Administration as saying on Thursday.
In a (...)
AlQa'dah 29, 1432, Oct 27, 2011, SPA -- A 5.4 magnitude earthquake struck southeastern Turkey on Thursday, the Kandilli Observatory said, four days after an earthquake killed more than 500 people in eastern Van province, according to (...)
AlQa'dah 28, 1432, Oct 26, 2011, SPA - The death toll in south-eastern Turkey rose to 459 on Tuesday, two days after a 7.2-magnitude earthquake
devastated the region.
More than 1,300 people were also injured, the government's crisis response unit (...)
AlQa'dah 27, 1432, Oct 25, 2011, SPA - The death toll in south-eastern Turkey has risen to 366, local media reported Tuesday, two days after a
7.2-magnitude earthquake struck the region.
More than 1,300 people were also injured, reported CNN Turk, (...)
AlQa'dah 26, 1432, Oct 24, 2011, SPA - The number of dead in a magnitude-7.2 earthquake in eastern Turkey rose to more than 200 Monday morning.
The number of dead alone in the city of Ercis in Van province numbered 117, Turkish media reported, (...)
AlQa'dah 26, 1432, Oct 24, 2011, SPA -- At least 265 people were killed in the 7.2-magnitude earthquake that hit south-eastern Turkey on Sunday, Interior Minister Idris Naim Sahin said Monday.
According to dpa, another 1,140 people were injured in (...)
AlQa'dah 21, 1432, Oct 19, 2011, SPA -- President Abdullah Gul of Turkey opened here today the 27th session of the ministerial conference for the standing committee of trade and economic cooperation, an affiliate of the Islamic Cooperation (...)
AlQa'dah 20, 1432, Oct 18, 2011, SPA -- Saudi Development Fund (SDF) decided to provide credit facilities totaling SR 112,500 million, to finance exporting of miscellaneous commodities and services of the Kingdom to Turkey.
In this regard, two (...)
AlQa'dah 9, 1432, Oct 7, 2011, SPA -- Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's mother, Tenzile Erdogan, has died in an Istanbul hospital where she was receiving treatment, state-run Anatolian news agency reported on Friday, according to (...)
AlQa'dah 3, 1432, Oct 1, 2011, SPA -- President Abdullah Gul urged Turkish lawmakers at the opening session of parliament on Saturday to search for consensus on a new liberal constitution so it would be representative, Reuters reported.
Pro-Kurdish (...)
Turkish President Abdullah Gul arrived Sunday in Germany for a three-day official visit at the invitation of his German counterpart, Christian Wulff.
While in Germany, Gul is to hold meetings with Chancellor Angela Merkel and chair a meeting of the (...)
Turkish President Abdullah Gul arrived here today for a three-day official visit at the invitation of his German counterpart, Christian Wulff, as dpa reported.
While in Germany, Gul is to hold meetings with Chancellor Angela Merkel and chair a (...)
Three Chechen people died when a person or several persons fired at them from a muzzled pistol in the Turkish city of Istanbul.
The Turkish NTV satellite network quoted a statement by the association "Brothers and Defense of Man" today that Russian (...)
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan opened here last night 19th World Congress on Occupational Health and Safety with the participation of the Minister of Labor Adel bin Mohammed Faqih, who headed the delegation of the Kingdom of Saudi (...)
Minister of Labor Adel Faqih delivered a speech at the first meeting of Ministers of Labor from Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Member States in Istanbul which he chaired this evening.
The first meeting of the Ministers of Labor of OIC (...)
A Pakistan Airlines (PIA) passenger airplane was forced to make an unscheduled landing at Istanbul's Ataturk Airport on Wednesday following a bomb threat, an airport spokesman said.
The spokesman confirmed to the German Press Agency (dpa) that (...)
Turkish President Abdullah Gul and King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa of Bahrain held here Saturday official talks, focusing on the bilateral relations between the two countries, regional and international issues; the prevailing developments of the (...)
King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa of the Kingdom of Bahrain arrived here today on a visit to Turkey.
During the visit, King Hamad Al Khalifa will hold talks with President Abdullah Gul of the Republic of Turkey on bilateral relations between the two (...)
Turkey announced on Friday it will host a NATO early-warning radar system, which the United States said would go online this year to help spot missile threats coming from outside Europe.
Turkey, with NATO's second biggest military, has a (...)