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At least eleven people were killed in a bus accident in the Turkish province of Eskişehir. Also, dozens of passengers were injured when the coach hit the road and rammed a tree.

The Turkish forces have attacked Kurdish-Syrian militias in Syria. The target is Afrin and surroundings that are in the hands of Syrian-Kurdish militias who call themselves Public Protection Units (YPG).

Pope Francis will visit the Turkish president Erdogan for the first time this month. The Holy See announced that the Turkish leader will attend the Audience in Vatican City on February 5th.

The Turkish president Erdogan has threatened that his country will nip a new 'terror army' in the bud. He is referring to an army force that, among other things, is to train the United States and to come under the control of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).

The US-led coalition is working with its Syrian militia allies to set up a 30,000-man border power, the Sunday coalition said. The move has aroused Turkey's anger for American support for Kurdish-dominated forces in Syria.

Turkey has given over 1800 civil servants rehabilitation. It concerns people who lost their jobs after the failed coup d'état of 2016. The authorities have now established that the employees in question have no connection with the movement of the spiritual Fethullah Gülen, reports the state press agency Anadolu.

The Turkish government has criticized a decision by the Constitutional Court to release two journalists. Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag said on Friday on Twitter that the judges went beyond their book

Turkish President Erdogan called his Russian counterpart Putin and said that the Syrian government should stop its attacks in Idlib in the northwest and east of Damascus. Erdogan said that the process by which Russia, Iran and Turkey try to bring peace to Syria together is at risk if these attacks continue.

The Turkish president Erdogan threatens to stop handing over suspects to the United States. He says he will take such a measure if the Americans do not hand over the spiritual Fethullah Gülen to the Turkish authorities.

The German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel and his Turkish counterpart Cavusoglu have assured each other Saturday that they will do everything to tighten the ties between Berlin and Ankara. The relations had been acidified in recent years by a series of collisions.

The Turkish government has reacted furiously to the conviction of Mehmet Hakan Atilla, a Turkish banker stuck in the United States. There, a court found him guilty on Wednesday of being involved in circumventing US sanctions against Iran.

The Turkish media watchdog has fined a TV channel after complaints had been received about 'child abuse'. The reason was a talent show in which young girls performed in short shorts and small tops.

A Turkish prosecutor ordered seventy soldiers and former soldiers to be arrested. The police then went in search of the suspects in 27 provinces. They are suspected of links with the organization of the spiritual Fethullah Gülen, said an initiate against state press agency Anadolu.

The Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mevlüt Cavusoglu, will visit his German colleague Sigmar Gabriel on Saturday. Ankara confirmed on Wednesday that Cavusoglu is coming to the home of Gabriel, the Lower Saxon city of Goslar, this weekend. Gabriel visited Cavusoglu in November in the constituency where the Turkish politician has his base.

The Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Cavusoglu wants to visit his German colleague this month. And he expects a 'much better year 2018.' External relations of the Turkish government, under the leadership of the increasingly authoritarian president Erdogan, have suffered considerable damage during the past year, including relations with Germany and the Netherlands.

Turkey is furious about Greece's decision to grant asylum to a former Turkish soldier. Turkey says the man was involved in the failed coup attempt in Turkey in July 2016.

Russia and Turkey have signed an agreement on the controversial supply of Russian S-400 anti-aircraft missiles to Turkey. With the deal, which both countries have worked on for more than a year, 2.1 billion euros has been converted.

The Turkish police have arrested at least 29 people in Ankara who would have links with the Islamic State terror group. Anti-terror units early on Friday morning at several places in the capital, said a source within the police against state press agency Anadolu.

The US embassy in Turkey again provides visa without restrictions. The diplomatic post has announced that Thursday. The provision of visas to non-immigrants was suspended in October after a Turkish employee of the American consulate in Istanbul was arrested.

Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad is a 'terrorist' who is an obstacle to peace in his country. Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan said this during a press conference with his Tunisian counterpart Beji Caid Essebsi.

Israel has arrested three Turkish tourists in East Jerusalem. Two of them also have Belgian nationality. The Belgian Consulate General in East Jerusalem has announced this to the Flemish broadcaster VRT Nieuws on Saturday.

Turkey must have an embassy in East Jerusalem. Turkish president Erdogan said this Sunday at a meeting of his party for Justice and Development (AK) in the south of the country.

For the first time in 65 years a Turkish head of state visits neighboring Greece. The press service of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan confirmed that on Saturday, according to the Turkish newspaper Hürriyet.

A Turkish court has sentenced a professor, who had gone on hunger strike to get her job back, sentenced to six years and three months in prison, because she would be a member of the forbidden group DHKP-C. According to Turkey, that is a terrorist organization.

A lawsuit against a Turkish-Iranian gold trader in New York threatens to embarrass Turkish President Erdogan. Ankara is raging with anger and calls for an American conspiracy to put the Turkish government in trouble.

A Turkish Airlines aircraft was diverted after discovering a Wi-Fi network with the name 'bomb on board.' The plane flew from Nairobi to Istanbul, but forced a stopover in the Sudanese capital Khartoum.

The United States will no longer provide weapons to fighters of the Kurdish YPG in Syria. According to Turkey, US President Trump said this in a telephone conversation with his Turkish colleague Erdogan.

In the Turkish capital Ankara, LGBT films and exhibitions are banned because the public increasingly takes offense. That is what the province Ankara is known for. LGBT is an English abbreviation that stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender. It is also about theater, panel discussions, interviews, exhibitions, according to a statement from the province.

Turkey assumes that the European Union will simply pay the remainder of the € 3 billion that Europe pledged under a refugee deal before the end of the year. Before the end of 2018, Ankara is counting on another 3 billion euros.

The Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs has suspended a quarter of its diplomatic corps. The non-active diplomats would have ties with those behind the failed coup attempt last year.