The shooting down of a Russian fighter by Turkish F- 16s at the border between Turkey and Syria has to do not only with violations of Turkish airspace. There are also another great tensions between Turkey and Russia related to the war in Syria.
Turkey contacts with NATO and with the United Nations about the incident with the Russian fighter jet. Tuesday fired according to Ankara two Turkish F-16 fighter one of the Russian forces down. The unit would have violated Syria 's airspace from Turkey. The Turkish prime minister Ahmet Davutoglu has discussed this with the Minister of Foreign Affairs Feridun Sinirioglu, reported Turkish media.
With the shooting down of a Russian fighter morning by Turkish F'16 over the territory of Turkey, the Russian Air Force and those of NATO member Turkey actually come into conflict.
Certainly one of the two pilots of the downed Russian Sukhoi Su- 24 bomber was captured by Turkmen fighters in Syria. The fate of the other soldier is still unknown.
Turkey on Tuesday shot down a Russian Sukhoi Su- 24 bomber. That was something would go wrong between the two countries coming.
The leader of the leftist Kurdish opposition party HDP in Turkey, Selahattin Demirtas, has survived an attack Sunday in the southeastern Turkish city of Diyarbakir populated by Kurds. It was shot at the armored car in which the charismatic politician SAT. There is a bullet in the bullet-proof window glass found at the height of his head. The politician was unharmed. " God decides on the death," he tweeted later.
A Turkish Airlines plane landed early Sunday morning in Canada, because there was a bomb threat made . The unit with 256 people on board was en route from New York to Istanbul.
Turkey has arrested eight Moroccans suspected of links with Islamic State. They are sent back to Morocco, authorities said Thursday.
On the Syrian border in Turkey 21 members of Islamic State (IS), were arrested and one has slain when they tried to enter Turkey. This announced the Turkish armed forces Wednesday.
In the eight suspects arrested Istanbul airport that may have a relationship with IS. The men presented themselves as refugees and were on their way to Germany. According to the Turkish state news agency Anadolu was their strange story.
Turkey and the United States will work together to ensure that the border between Turkey and Syria is under strict control. The US Secretary of State, John Kerry, said Tuesday on CNN.
Turkey has warned France on two occasions for one of the perpetrators of the attacks in Paris. That said a senior Turkish government source Monday. In December and in June would have tipped over Ankara Paris Omar Ismael Mostefai. He shot dozens of people dead Friday at a performance by rock band Eagles of Death Metal.
In the run-up to the G20 meeting in the Turkish resort of Belek on Sunday in the capital Ankara seven suspected IS fighters detained.
Police in Turkey have eleven suspected supporters of terrorist group Islamic State (IS) was arrested in Istanbul. The anti-terrorist unit of the police has done simultaneous raids on more than twenty addresses in the city, Anadolu news agency reported Thursday. Among the seven suspects are foreigners.
European Turkey on Tuesday criticized the functioning of Erdogan rejected fiercely. Comments in a European progress report on Turkey unacceptable, told the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Turkey needs to better protect media freedom, resume the peace talks with the Kurds again and stop the spiral of violence and human rights violations. The European Commission's launch Tuesday the alarm in a report on the progress that Turkey 's accession to the EU. Brussels calls on the new government in Ankara to direct this work.
The PKK has proclaimed Thursday denounced the unilateral cease- fire. The militant Kurds put the fire break on October 10, after the bloody attack at the main railway station in the capital Ankara.
The parliamentary elections in Turkey were held under unfair conditions. This has Selahattin Demirtas, one of the two leaders of the leftist pro-Kurdish party HDP, said Sunday in reaction to the outcome of the vote.
During the Sunday parliamentary elections in Turkey have been some incidents. At a polling station in the province of Kocaeli, east of Istanbul, were supporters of the ruling AK clashed with supporters of the left-wing, pro-Kurdish party HDP.
Offices of the Turkish newspaper Cumhuriyet be extra safe since Saturday. The newspaper reported on the website that the police this week supporters of Islamic State (IS) has arrested suspected it had provided on the newspaper. The extremists were arrested in Gaziantep and had the address of the newspaper with him.
Nearly 57 million Turkish voters Sunday to elect a parliament again. The previous elections on June 7 did not yield any coalition government. The Party for Justice and Development (AK) President Erdogan lost in June for the first time in thirteen years the absolute majority in the 550- member parliament.
Certainly twelve people found this month in Istanbul death after they had drunk alcohol poisoning. Dozens of people have been hospitalized with symptoms of poisoning such as blindness and upset stomach.
The police using water cannon has a tear gas Wednesday in Istanbul stormed the headquarters of the media group Koza Ipek Holding. Numerous people for the property vainly tried to stop the police and new management.
The Turkish police on Tuesday around thirty potential militants from Islamic State (IS) held with an action in the city of Konya, reported news agency Dogan.
In a gunbattle between security forces and followers of the terrorist militia Islamic State (IS), nine people have been slain in the southeastern Turkish city of Diyarbakir. It involves two policemen and seven suspected militants IS, DHA news agency reported Monday.
A court in Turkey has 244 members sentenced to anti-government protests in Istanbul in 2013 to prison terms of between 2.5 and 14.5 months. Seven defendants were acquitted.
The Turkish authorities have identified one of the two perpetrators of the suicide bombings on October 10 in Ankara to cost the lives of 102 people . It would go to Yunus Emre Alagöz from Adiyaman . Which have some state media in Turkey Monday.
Journalist Jacky Sutton ( 50 ) , a former employee of the BBC , is found dead Sunday night on the toilet from Istanbul airport .
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is committed to a more flexible visa policy for Turkish nationals who wish to travel to EU countries . In return, they expect Istanbul refugee policy tightens .
In the Turkish metropolis of Istanbul on Sunday arrested about fifty people who are suspected of involvement in the terrorist group Islamic State. All those arrested are foreigners , according to the Turkish newspaper Hürriyet .
