La Turquie a affirmé samedi avoir infligé un coup sévère à la guérilla kurde du PKK en pilonnant pendant une semaine ses bases du nord de l'Irak et va poursuivre les raids, poussant les autorités du Kurdistan irakien à demander aux rebelles de (...)
La Turquie a affirmé samedi avoir infligé un coup sévère à la guérilla kurde du PKK en pilonnant pendant une semaine ses bases du nord de l'Irak et va poursuivre les raids, poussant les autorités du Kurdistan irakien à demander aux rebelles de (...)
Authorities say troops have killed three Kurdish rebels in southeast Turkey, the Associated Press reported.
The Diyarbakir province governor's office said the clash occurred in the town of Lice early Saturday, when the rebels attempted to sneak (...)
AlHijjah 27, 1432, Nov 23, 2011, SPA - Royal Dutch Shell has signed a deal with Turkish state-run petroleum company, TPAO, to search for oil and gas.
The deal, sealed on Wednesday, allows the two companies to search for oil and natural gas offshore (...)
AlHijjah 27, 1432, Nov 23, 2011, SPA -- The Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Hamad bin Jasem bin Jabor Al Thani of Qatar met here today Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey.
During the meeting, they reviewed bilateral relations and (...)
AlHijjah 17, 1432, Nov 13, 2011, SPA - The death toll from Turkey's 5.6-magnitude earthquake climbed to 37 on Saturday, as rescue workers in Van combed
through the wreckage of the second earthquake to hit the eastern city in three weeks.
Rescuers (...)
AlHijjah 17, 1432, Nov 13, 2011, SPA -- Searchers on Sunday ended efforts to find anyone else alive in the rubble of an earthquake-shattered hotel in eastern Turkey, AP cited the state-run agency as reporting.
The 5.7-magnitude quake struck the (...)
AlHijjah 17, 1432, Nov 13, 2011, SPA - The state-run news agency says authorities have ended efforts to find anyone else alive in the rubble of an earthquake-shattered hotel in eastern Turkey.
The Anatolia news agency said search and rescue (...)
AlHijjah 16, 1432, Nov 12, 2011, SPA - State-run television says Turkish commandos stormed the hijacked ferry and shot dead the lone hijacker.
TRT television says some people jumped into the sea during the raid but it is not clear if any of the 18 (...)
AlHijjah 16, 1432, Nov 12, 2011, SPA -- Turkey's interior minister says a Kurdish rebel shot dead after hijacking a passenger ferry was wearing plastic explosives.
Idris Naim Sahin identified the hijacker as Mensur Guzel and said he was wearing 450 (...)
AlHijjah 14, 1432, Nov 10, 2011, SPA - The death toll from an earthquake in Turkey reached five, with 20 injured, news reports said Thursday.
Two more bodies were pulled from the rubble overnight, Deputy Prime Minister Besir Atalay told reporters (...)
AlHijjah 7, 1432, Nov 3, 2011, SPA -- Turkey's state-run television said that a fighter jet has crashed during a training flight, killing its two pilots, AP reported.
The TRT television said the F-4 fighter jet crashed near the central Anatolian (...)
AlQa'dah 25, 1432, Oct 23, 2011, SPA -- A powerful 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck eastern Turkey on Sunday, collapsing dozens of buildings into piles of twisted steel and chunks of concrete. Desperate survivors dug into the rubble with their bare (...)
AlQa'dah 24, 1432, Oct 22, 2011, SPA - State-run television says 32 Kurdish rebels have been killed in a Turkish military operation in southeastern Turkey.
TRT television, citing unnamed officials Saturday, says the rebels were killed in clashes in (...)
AlQa'dah 20, 1432, Oct 18, 2011, SPA -- Turkey will take in about 10 of the Palestinians freed in a swap deal with Israel, an official said Tuesday.
Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Turkey agreed to receive the freed inmates to contribute to (...)
A bomb blast rocked the centre of the Turkish capital Ankara on Tuesday and some media reports said two people were killed, while a local mayor said nobody was dead but three people were seriously wounded.
The state-run Anatolian news agency said (...)
Turkey said on Saturday plans by Cyprus to begin gas exploration in the Mediterranean amounted to "provocation".
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told a news conference that if Cyprus oil drilling went ahead, Turkey would consider (...)
Reports say five prisoners were burned to death when a prison van caught fire in a town in central Turkey, according to AP.
Mehmet Ozel, the local official of the central Anatolian town of Pinarbasi in Kayseri province, says Friday that the blaze (...)
Turkey's prime minister has said Israel's raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla last year was "cause for war" but that his country showed "patience" and refrained from taking any action.
In a recent Television interview carried by Anatolia news agency (...)
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan stepped up his belligerent rhetoric against Israel, saying that the country's warships will escort Turkish Gaza-bound aid ships in the future to prevent a repeat of last year's Israeli raid on a flotilla that (...)
Minister of Labor Eng. Adel bin Mohammed Faqih arrived here today to participate in the 19th World Congress on Safety and Health at Work to be held in Istanbul, Turkey on 11-15 September 2011.
Upon his arrival, Eng. Faqih was received by Saudi (...)
A Turkish television station said that a bomb threat has forced a Britain-bound plane from Pakistan to make an emergency landing in Istanbul, according to AP.
HaberTurk television, citing unnamed aviation officials, said the plane received the (...)
Fatah Central Committee member, Nabil Shaath, Tuesday met with senior Turkish officials in Ankara to discuss outcome of the United Nations Palmer report and Palestinian bid to gain UN membership, according to a statement issued by his (...)
Turkey expelled Israel's envoy and froze military cooperation with the Jewish state on Friday after a U.N. report on the deaths of nine Turks in an Israeli raid on a Gaza-bound ship failed to trigger an apology, Reuters reported.
Foreign Minister (...)
Turkey's military says its warplanes have bombed 20 suspected Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq in a third day of cross-border strikes.
The military says on its website Saturday that 85 other rebel targets were also hit with artillery fire in (...)