Israel has reacted indignantly to the treatment of the ambassador expelled by Turkey. Turkish media recorded how the Israeli diplomat Eitan Naveh had to undergo a security check at the Istanbul airport.
The Turkish authorities have arrested dozens of foreigners who would have ties with the terrorist organization IS. Anti-terrorist units in Istanbul met at the same time buildings in thirteen districts, say sources within the police against the Turkish state press agency Anadolu.
Turkish president Erdogan, with a remark in a group meeting, caused a small storm on Twitter in Turkey. The head of state stated that he would step down if the people were able to find it enough with him at the helm one day. The hashtag #genoeg was then used by 1.5 million twitterers.
The Turkish election campaign has become grim, now that physical attacks between political opponents are taking place.
The former president of Turkey Abdullah Gül will not participate in the presidential elections in June. He was pushed forward by a small Islamic party without his consent as a candidate but denied Saturday that he will take office against incumbent Head of State Recep Erdogan.
A Turkish court sentenced fourteen employees of the Cumhuriyet newspaper to prison sentences. These include editor-in-chief Murat Sabuncu, research journalist Ahmet Sik and publisher Akin Atalay.
Turkey has 'the duty to share the suffering suffered by the Armenians in the events of 1915'. Turkish president Erdogan said this in a statement that was circulated on Tuesday on the day of the commemoration of the Armenian genocide. It was set in motion on 24 April 1915 in the former capital of the Ottoman Empire, Istanbul.
Due to an earthquake, dozens of people were injured in the northeast of Turkey. At least 39 people suffered injuries from whom 35 were taken to the hospital.
The Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan also wants to campaign abroad for himself and his party in the run-up to the early Turkish presidential and parliamentary elections this summer.
Three courts in Turkey have together convicted 28 soldiers to a life sentence for their share in the failed coup attempt in July 2016.
For the seventh consecutive time, the Turkish government wants to extend the state of emergency by three months. The state of emergency was declared after the failed coup, almost two years ago.
Turkey has arrested about seventy army officers who would have ties with the controversial spiritual Fethullah Gülen. The newspaper Milliyet reported that the police carried out operations in 34 provinces in the country.
A huge cargo ship sailed a chic mansion on the banks of the Bosporus in Istanbul after the helm got stuck. The havoc is enormous. The waterway is closed for navigation.
The Turkish secret service MIT brought Gülen supporters to Turkey from eighteen countries. So far it concerns eighty Gülenisten, said the Turkish deputy prime minister Bekir Bozdağ against transmitter Habertürk.
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan condemned the actions of Israel in the border with Gaza. He called the shooting of fifteen Palestinian demonstrators by Israeli soldiers a 'killing.'
Five passengers, including four Russians, were killed on Friday as a result of a helicopter accident in Istanbul, reported the Russian news agency TASS. Two people were injured by the crash.
Turkey continues to pick people up as a result of the failed coup attempt in the summer of 2016. This time, prosecutors gave orders for the arrest of seventy army officers. They would have ties with the spiritual Fethullah Gülen who, according to Ankara, is behind the coup.
A Dutch diplomat would work as a spy in Turkey. That reports the large Turkish news station A-Haber. Turkey would have started an investigation.
Syrian rebels with the support of Turkish troops entered the city of Afrin in the northwest of Syria shortly before sunrise. They took control of parts of it after the Kurdish YPG troops had withdrawn, said a spokesman for the rebel fighters of the Free Syrian Army.
The Turkish forces guarantee citizens who want to leave the besieged Syrian city Afrin a safe retreat. On Friday they said they had pamphlets strewn above the stronghold of the Kurdish militia YPG.
Due to a collision between a passenger bus and a truck, thirteen people were killed in Turkey. At least twenty people were injured, according to Turkish media.
In the southwest of Iran a Turkish private plane crashed on Sunday. That has been announced by the Iranian state television. The plane was from Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates on its way to Istanbul.
The leading Turkish investigative journalist Ahmet Sik has come up with serious criticism of Ankara, shortly after his unexpected release from pre-trial detention. Sik spoke of a 'mafia sultanate'. He did that Saturday in a video message that spread his newspaper Cumhuriyet. The journalist was in custody for more than four hundred days.
The judge in Istanbul ordered Friday the release of Ahmet Sik and Murat Sabuncu, respectively investigative journalist and chief editor of the opposition newspaper Cumhuriyet.
The two Greek soldiers who accidentally crossed the Turkish border remain in pre-trial detention. The judge in the city of Edirne dismissed the protest that their lawyers had filed against the arrest, news agency Anadolu announced on Monday. The reason given was that the couple do not have a place of residence or stay in Turkey and that digital data have to be analyzed.
Despite sharp criticism from the United States, Turkey does not feel bound by the UN resolution on a truce in Syria. The country plans to continue its offensive against the Kurdish YPG militias in Afrin.
The Turkish forces have fought a large convoy in the Syrian Afrin region. According to Turkey, it was about vehicles with 'terrorists, weapons and ammunition' from the Kurdish YPG militia.
The German journalist Deniz Yücel was released in Turkey after more than a year of imprisonment. German media reported this a day after Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim had visited Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Turkey has proposed to the United States that the troops of both countries be stationed together in the Syrian area of Manbij. The Kurdish YPG fighters must then retreat to the east of the Euphrates River. That is what a Turkish official said.
