A protest march against the policy of President Erdogan from Ankara to Istanbul ends with a mass raid on Sunday afternoon. The biggest opposition party in Turkey, the CHP, started a march on June 15, which is intended to protest against the Islamic Conservative government. Eventually thousands of people joined the march.
Turkey has to release Immigration International Director of the Turkish Department on Wednesday. This call made the two Turkey rapporteurs of the Council of Europe on Friday.
The Turkish troop building in Northern Syria comes down to a 'war declaration'. That said the head of the Kurdish YPG militia, who warned that fighting may be possible in the coming days. 'We are not going to look passive on this potential aggression,' said YPG leader Sipan Hemo on Wednesday against Reuters.
The captain of a Turkish cargo ship says that the Greek coastguard had shot his ship after he had ignored orders for an inspection in the port of Rhodes. There were sixteen bullet holes in the hull, but nobody got injured, said captain Sami Kalkavan against CNN-Türk.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán criticized critically about 'Turkey-hostile statements by major EU countries' on Friday. His country will not participate there, he said, visiting Ankara, even if that has unpleasant consequences.
Iran is sure that the leader of Islamic State Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi no longer lives. A representative of Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at a special military unit said Thursday to Iran's Iranian State Press Office that Al-Baghdadi is 'definitely dead'.
The Turkish newspaper and website Sabah must rectify and revoke all allegations at Rotterdam's CDA councilor Turan Yazir. That mayor Mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb shared during the meeting of the Rotterdam City Council, who, together with Yazir, had appealed to the Appeal Court on this matter.
It is unacceptable that the German government rejects the idea that Turkish President Erdogan is speaking in Germany. This shows once again that Berlin measures two dimensions, a spokesman for the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Thursday.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan finds it inappropriate that Arab countries claim the closure of a Turkish army base in Qatar. He complained Sunday, according to Turkish media, that his country is being treated as 'disrespectful'.
The German parliament approved Wednesday's transfer of German soldiers who are still living in Turkey. The approximately 260 men and several aircraft are moving because of a diplomatic conflict of the Turkish air force base Incirlik to Jordan.
Hundreds of Turkish soldiers have possibly encountered food poisoning in their barracks in the province of Manisa. Nearly six hundred soldiers, according to the Daily Sabah newspaper, reportedly suffered from nausea and vomiting.
A Turkish court has found a parliamentarian of opposition party CHP to be guilty of espionage on Wednesday. The judge sentenced Enis Berberoglu to 25 years in prison. The CHP talks about an attempt to intimidate critics of the ruling AK party.
The Turkish authorities have ordered the arrest of 189 lawyers. According to state press office Anadolu, lawyers are suspected of tensions with the movement of Islamic spiritual Fethullah Gülen, who considers the Turkish government to be the brain behind the failed coup last year.
Turkey has adopted a law to send troops to the Gulf of Qatar. The law was launched swiftly by the parliament and signed by President Erdogan.
Germany is going to retrieve its troops from Turkey now a last attempt has been made to resolve the dispute with the government in Ankara around a visit ban for German parliamentarians on the air force base Incirlik. That is what German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel said in Ankara on Monday after consulting his Turkish colleague Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu.
The highest adviser to Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim was arrested on Saturday. Birol Erdem and his wife Gülümser are suspected of ties with Fethullah Gülen's movement, reported the state press office Anadolu.
Syrian militias begin a military operation within a few days to conquer the city of Raqqa on Islamic State (IS). A spokeswoman for the Kurdish YPG militia announced Saturday that Raqqa has gained huge land profit and that the coalition against IS has now reached the outskirts of Raqqa.
Germany, together with, among others, has planned a plan to hold a NATO Summit in Istanbul. This reported the newspaper Die Welt Wednesday. Turkish President Erdogan invited the Western Alliance to the summit in Warsaw last year to come to Turkey.
The German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel goes to Ankara to talk about the invasion of the air force base Incirlik. That's what his Turkish colleague Mevlüt Çavosoglu said on Tuesday. 'We are constantly in touch with Gabriel to solve the problems. He will be personally on Monday. '
The Turkish Army has certainly killed 13 members of the Kurdish secretion movement PKK during air strikes during Sunday in northern Iraq. That's what the army said in a statement.
The Turkish authorities have deployed more than 4000 judges and prosecutors since the failed coup last year. They are suspected of being involved in the coup attempt, said Minister Bekir Bozdag of Justice Friday.
When the German soldiers are withdrawn from the Incirlik air force in Turkey, the Turkish government says 'goodbye.' The departure of troops would be no big problem for Turkey, 'Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in Ankara.
Turkey has called the US ambassador in that country. The reason was the treatment received by Turkish security officers last week during an official visit to the US, the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported Monday.
In Turkey, Monday launched the lawsuit against more than two hundred suspects of the failed coup last year. This includes the former head of the air force and dozens of generals, colonels and majors.
The Turkish police killed two terrorist suspects who would be members of Islamic State (IS) on an invasion of the capital of Ankara. The men between the ages of 25 and 30 were planning to commit an assault.
Turkish President Erdogan is expected to expand his power on Sunday when he is re-elected as party leader during the Congress of his AK party in Ankara. He had to resign in 2014 when he was elected president.
If it lies with the Turkish Foreign Minister, then the US Envoy can leave for the fight against Islamic State. According to Mevlüt Çavusoglu, Brett McGurk supports Kurdish militants. This was announced by the minister on Thursday after his visit to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to US President Donald Trump.
In Turkey, seventeen Turkish tourists were killed in a bus crash near Marmaris. Thirteen people got injured.
Greece, along with the organization that has been monitoring the EU's external borders (Frontex), has returned 71 migrants to Turkey since Wednesday. The returned refugees came from the islands of Chios, Lesbos and Kos.
The Kurdish YPG militia leaves again from the area around the city after the fall of the Syrian IS building Raqqa. That commitment has received Turkey from the United States, said Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim on Friday.
