Greece and Cyprus seek support from the EU and NATO in their conflicts with the militarily stronger Turkey, as the tensions over border conflicts between the three countries continue to rise.
According to the Turkish Foreign Minister, relations between Ankara and Washington have reached a 'very critical point'. 'Or we improve the relationships or our relationships are completely disrupted. There is no alternative, 'Mevlüt Cavusoglu said in Istanbul Monday.
A Turkish army helicopter was shot down in the southeastern Hatay province during actions against Kurdish militias in nearby Syria. The Hürriyet newspaper reported that President Erdogan said in an application on Saturday that unfortunately such incidents occur in a war and that the perpetrators will pay a high price.
The extremely colorful 62-year-old Turkish TV preacher Adnan Oktar has once again been discredited in his country. Apart from bestsellers, he is also a powerful television guru who preaches Islam on his channel A9, while he is surrounded by remarkably scantily clad ladies, whom he calls pussies.
An Algerian jeweler was arrested in Turkey because he tried to smuggle 290 banknotes worth € 144,200 in his gut.
The Turkish government wants to introduce a new law for more internet control. All websites that regularly publish video or audio recordings must be checked in the future by the broadcasting authority (RTÜK).
Certainly one Turkish soldier was killed in Syria by a rocket and mortar attack. Five others were injured, reports the Turkish army. A civilian in the unit also sustained injuries.
Turkish forces have established a military observation post on Monday, south-west of Aleppo, near al-Eis. The army of the Erdogan government has penetrated deeper into Syria after an agreement with Russia and Iran on reducing the violence in the region. However, there is nothing to notice about de-escalation.
In actions against terrorism, Turkey has arrested 82 people who are members of the Islamic State (IS) terror group. Turkish state media report that 77 suspects are foreigners.
Due to ongoing rocket attacks from Syria, a Turkish resident lost his life on Friday. The projectiles arrived Friday in districts Reyhanli and Kilis along the border with Syria.
Turkey has reached a population of 80 million. The Turkish statistical office reported that at the end of last year the country officially had 80.8 million inhabitants, nearly one million more than a year earlier.
The release of the chief of Amnesty International in Turkey, the lawyer Taner Kiliç, did not go through at the last minute. Kiliç did leave the Izmir prison after the judge had ordered his conditional release on Wednesday, but he was again detained in a police cell.
A Turkish prosecutor ordered the pre-trial detention of 120 suspects from the army, said state press agency Anadolu Thursday. It is the umpteenth crackdown by the government after the failed coup attempt in 2016.
A Turkish court ordered the release of the arrested president of Amnesty International in Turkey, Taner Kiliç. That's what his lawyer reported. The man had been detained since June last year, on suspicion of terrorist activities.
A court in Turkey has sentenced three Syrians to life for the attack in early 2016 in Istanbul, killing ten German tourists. Several other suspects were acquitted.
In the fight against critics, the Turkish government has now turned its back on doctors. At least eleven board members of the TTB doctors' association are on the nomination to be arrested because they have turned against the military operation of Turkey in Syria.
The Turkish president Erdogan wants to extend his military operation along the Turkish-Syrian border if necessary to the east, all the way to the border with Iraq. He said on Friday that he wants to free the entire border from insurgents.
At least two people were killed by a rocket attack on a Turkish camp in the border with Syria. The victims are probably fighters of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) supported by Turkey, news agency Dogan reports. Twelve people were also injured.
The Turkish army has entered the northern Syrian province of Afrin. That says Prime Minister Binali Yildirim, reports the Habertürk channel.
From Syria four rockets were fired at the Turkish border town of Kilis. According to the Turkish state press agency Anadolu, a number of houses have been damaged as a result.
The Turkish army claims that it has hit 108 targets of Kurdish militants in a military operation. The army reported this a few hours after the announcement of the beginning of the Olijftak campaign. It is aimed at Syrian-Kurdish militias in the Afrin region in northern Syria.
On Saturday, Turkish forces also attacked Kurdish positions in the Syrian Afrin region. The army said they had destroyed shelters of Kurdish militias.
Kurdish militias in northwestern Syria will be destroyed by Turkish military intervention in the area. With this, Turkish president Erdogan threatened Saturday.
The Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan calls his country a forerunner in the field of press freedom. On the Turkish Day of Working Journalists, which was celebrated on Wednesday, Erdogan said: 'Turkey is one of the leading countries in the world in terms of press freedom, the latest communication technologies, social media and internet journalism.'
Turkish president Erdogan warned Friday that the legal agreements between the two countries 'lose their value.' He responded to the conviction of a Turkish banker who is stuck in the United States.
There are special training camps in Turkey where folk militias receive military training from groups that are friendly to the government. These armed militias have to put off voters during the coming elections, who do not want to vote for the AK Party of Erdogan.
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.
The Turkish police have arrested 38 people who would have links with terrorist organization Islamic State. Units of the anti-terror police fell into several places in the northwestern province of Bursa.
A Turkish judge has determined on Monday that four prominent journalists and staff members of opposition newspaper Cumhuriyet must remain in jail during the hearing of their case. As a result, they are still stuck until 9 March. Only then is the next session. A few of them were arrested and put in the cell fourteen months ago.
