Turkey has access to Twitter, YouTube and Facebook restricted to prevent the spread of a horror video of the murder of two Turkish soldiers by the terrorist group Islamic State. With IS affiliated websites published Thursday evening, a nineteen-minute film, which shows how the two together chained soldiers humiliated by Turkish-speaking jihadists and burned.
It stands for the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan doubt that the murderer of the Russian ambassador was a member of the Gülen movement, which was according to the head of state also behind the coup attempt last summer in Turkey. Erdogan said that this is evident from the place where the suspect has received education and the relationships he maintained.
The website and the NIS app are blocked in Turkey. Reported that the broadcaster on Twitter and on its own site. According to the NIS has to do with the blockade images that are online for the murder of the Russian Ambassador Andrei Karlov Monday in Ankara.
She was only seven years old, but became known worldwide by its twitter reports from eastern Aleppo. Now the Syrian Bana Alabed finally together with her parents and brothers escaped the misery in the wrecked city and arrived in Turkey. Turkish President Erdogan managed to pick up the family by helicopter.
No day after the murder of the Russian ambassador in Ankara are Russia, Turkey and Iran agreed to cooperate more closely in the war in Syria. The three countries are willing to participate in a peace agreement between the Syrian government and the opposition.
A splinter group of the PKK, the Kurdistan Freedom Falcons (TAK), has claimed responsibility for the bomb attack Saturday on a bus with Turkish soldiers in the southern city of Kayseri. In the suicide car bomb attack came fourteen soldiers killed.
Turkish police have arrested six people after the murder of the Russian ambassador in Turkey. It is according to the Turkish state news agency Anadolu to parents, sister, housemate and two other relatives of the gunman.
The US Embassy and consulates in Istanbul and Adana remain closed Tuesday after someone in the night of Monday to Tuesday fired shots at the embassy building in Ankara. No one was injured and the gunman was arrested.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Monday with Russian President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation on the attack on the Russian Ambassador in Ankara. Both mention the shooting of Andrei Karlov in the Turkish capital a provocation to damage relations between the two countries.
The meeting of the Foreign Ministers of Russia, Turkey and Iran on Syria comes despite the murder of the Russian ambassador in Ankara Tuesday as planned as usual in Moscow. That the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Russian State Duma, Leonid Slutsky, to the Interfax news agency said.
UPDATE 17:26 am- The Russian ambassador in Turkey was shot Monday in Ankara, according to NTV.
The Turkish authorities have arrested seven suspects following the bombing in the Turkish city of Kayseri. In five other potential stakeholders is still being sought, said Minister Suleyman Soylu (Interior) at a press conference.
The German authorities have arrested a 31-year-old Turk on suspicion of espionage. Justice suspects him of spying on Kurds and their organizations in Germany. The man was arrested Thursday in Hamburg and is still in custody.
The Gülen movement itself lies behind allegations of spying by the Turkish mosque dome in Europe. By Erdogan hated movement is responsible for a smear campaign against Turkey. Writes that the Turkish government in a press statement.
While Wednesday again fierce fighting erupted in the eastern Syrian city of Aleppo, foreign ministers are trying to resurrect the file Tuesday new life. The Russian Minister Sergey Lavrov has among others with his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif on ending the fighting in Aleppo said.
The Turkish army has inhabitants of the Syrian site Al-Bab pamphlets warned to seek refuge. This suggests that an attack on the city of possible imminent.
Turkish warplanes have late Sunday attacks on targets of the Kurdish PKK movement in northern Iraq. The aircraft destroyed in accordance with the Turkish armed forces include a headquarters of the banned Workers' Party.
The Turkish ruling AK Party on Saturday submitted a package of constitutional amendments significantly expand the powers of the president. If parliament approves the proposals, Erdogan may stay on until 2029.
The massive wave of dismissals in Turkey after the failed coup of July in violation of the Turkish constitution and international law. Which have legal experts from the Council of Europe said Friday.
Turkey wants next spring hold a referendum on an amendment to the constitution that would expand the power of the president. The referendum must precede the presidential and parliamentary elections are scheduled in 2019.
The highest court in Belgium warns that the country should be careful that it does not hold the same side as Turkey, where the separation between the executive and judiciary is getting thinner. The President of the High Council of Justice, Christian Denoyelle said Friday at the Belgian radio that threatens to otherwise ' lost confidence in all the institutions. '
Turkey sent hundreds of extra troops to northern Syria. The Turkish armed forces there conduct an operation for Kurdish fighters and terrorist group Islamic State (IS) to ward off the border.
Turkey, the German ambassador summoned because of an incident with a member of parliament at the airport of Cologne. Police at the airport held parliamentarian Aysenur Bahcekapili equally fixed because there were problems with her passport.
The UN Special Rapporteur Nils Melzer is on a visit to Turkey, called on the government to adhere to the Turkish policy not to tolerate torture. The Swiss by the human rights organization of the United Nations sent to Turkey to assess the situation following complaints about torture.
Turkish voters may probably in the next summer to the polls to express their views on major constitutional changes. Prime Minister Yildirim announced on Thursday that his AK Party next week will send a proposal for a referendum to parliament.
The Syrian army carried out the bombing last week four Turkish soldiers claimed the lives of northern Syria. That said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov Thursday during a visit to Turkey.
Turkish public prosecutor has demanded thirty consecutive life sentences against the Kurdish politician Saleh Muslim. The leader of the Serbian-Kurdish party PYD is held responsible for the terrorist attack in February in Ankara which 37 people, mostly civilians, were killed.
If the European Union 'goes even further,' Turkey will open the borders. That threat uttered the Turkish President Erdogan Friday. If he adds the action to the word, it means the end of the refugee deal between Turkey and the EU.
A Turkish soldier was killed in clashes with fighters from Islamic State in northern Syria. This was announced by the Turkish army Friday. Another five soldiers were injured.
The Turkish authorities have issued an arrest warrant for the leader of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD). According to the state news agency Anadolu Salih Muslim is linked to a bomb attack on some Turkish army vehicles in February in Ankara. The bombing came 29 people died and dozens were injured.
