The Turkish police arrested 25 alleged Islamic state warriors in Istanbul. It is believed in three cases that 'high-ranking members' of the terrorist organization, state government agency Anadolu. The vast majority of the suspects would have a foreign nationality.
According to information from the German government, Turkey has again held a German couple. 'There are concrete indications that a German couple of Turkish origin in Istanbul have been arrested by the police,' said a spokesman for the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Turkey has given its residents and countrymen in Germany a 'travel warning' for Germany. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced the warning on Saturday.
Turkish police officers shot a man in the city of Mersin who was about to commit suicide bombing. According to sources of Turkish media, he suspected himself near a police station and the regional headquarters of intelligence service MIT.
The Istanbul police arrested a Belgian who was likely to prepare an attack on behalf of the Islamic State terrorist organization.
In an attack on a restaurant in Burkina Faso, seventeen people were killed. Another eight people were injured. Armed men opened the fire at the Turkish restaurant Aziz Istanbul in the capital Ouagadougou on Sunday.
In Istanbul, a policeman was stabbed on Sunday by allegedly an attacker of Islamic State terrorist organization. According to Turkish state press office Anadolu, the detainee was previously arrested by the police. He was suspected of preparing a bomb attack.
The Turkish police arrested numerous journalists on Thursday. According to the Turkish state press office Anadolu, a total of 35 media representatives have been held. Among them is an editor of the critical newspaper Birgün.
Suspicions of the coup in Turkey must now wear brown suits in court. That has determined Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan. The prescription comes after a suspect of the coup trial before appeared in a t-shirt with the text 'hero'.
German human rights activist Peter Steudtner is temporarily stuck in Turkey. The court in Istanbul ruled Friday that the suspicions against the activist are serious enough to hold him to his trial. Also, a Swedish and six arrested Turkish human rights activists are not yet at liberty, said lawyers of the suspects.
The pilot who carried out a successful emergency landing at Istanbul airport on Thursday almost won a high degree of honor in his country. Kite Alexander Akopov safely landed a heavily damaged Airbus A320 in the Turkish capital.
Hundreds of Turkish women went to Istanbul on Saturday to argue for the right to choose their clothes themselves. They are increasingly confronted with verbal and physical violence because of their choice of clothes, which in the eyes of some men is not conservative enough.
The Turkish court in Istanbul released seven employees from the main Turkish opposition cum Cumhuriyet on Friday. They were arrested months ago for suspicion of support for terrorist organizations.
Turkey does not want the conflicts with Germany to cause economic damage. This stressed Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim on Thursday against German entrepreneurs. Yildirim said that 'political distortions should not escalate and politicians should ensure that their disputes do not harm trade.'
Under the brutal protest of international organizations and the Turkish opposition, a process has begun against Istanbul against seventeen journalists and employees of the main Turkish opposition cum Cumhuriyet. They are suspected of supporting terrorist organizations. Eleven journalists have been in forearm for months. The chief suspect, former editor-in-chief Can Dündar, is in exile in Germany. The publisher of Cumhuriyet, Akin Atalay, is raping 43 years in prison. 'This process is a legal murder,' said Atalay. 'They want to cradle our newspaper either.'
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavusoglu thinks it is running out of crisis with Ankara and Berlin. During a visit to northern Cyprus, he said he was still on Thursday with his German colleague Sigmar Gabriel. 'I still call him my friend. You can not have the same opinion about everything, but what matters is that you can talk about it. '
The Turkish ambassador in Berlin was called on the mat on Wednesday and the German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel interrupted because of the tensions with Ankara's holiday. The ambassador is understood that the recent arrest of a German human rights activist is not acceptable.
On the first anniversary of the failed coup, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has once again expressed his willingness to reintroduce the death penalty. During a memorial meeting at the Bosphorus Bridge, which became a symbol of opposition to the coup, Erdogan said Saturday night that he would sign the law for it if the parliament so wanted.
The international airport of Benghazi has been officially reopened for commercial flights on Saturday during heavy surveillance. The airport was closed for three years because of the fierce fighting in and around the Libyan city and the chaos. The first devices that took off Benina Airport went to capital Tripoli, Amman in Jordan and to Kufra in southeastern Libya.
On the first anniversary of the failed coup in Turkey, opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu has criticized the government on Saturday. Instead of pursuing rapid normalization, she has 'created a permanent state of emergency' and the case law 'destroyed,' said the CHP leader.
The Turkish police arrested the producer of a film about President Erdogan. Ali Avci and another person were detained in the house of the producer in Istanbul, the Turkish press office DHA reported Thursday. Avci is accused of joining the Gülen movement.
The Turkish police arrested 44 people in the context of anti-terrorist actions. Among the detainees is a group of men suspected of having two suicide attacks last year in Istanbul, according to the city council on Thursday. As a consequence, more than forty people became involved in December 2016.
The Turkish police killed five militants of terrorist movement Islamic state during an invasion of a house in the city of Konya in central turkey. Four police officers became light-wounded, reported Dogan Press Office Wednesday.
The Turkish authorities have ordered the detention of 105 ITs. According to state press office Anadolu, they are suspected of involvement in the failed coup last year.
The commemorations of the failed attempted coup last year in Turkey began throughout the country on Tuesday. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Prime Minister Binali Yildirim visited Istanbul's Martelar Cemetery on Tuesday, where fifteen of the victims were killed.
The Turkish police, with the arrest of eight suspects, two of whom have Dutch nationality, have wound up a big drug gang. According to Turkish media, the police found 773 liters of acetic anhydride, a chemical used for heroin production. The stuff would have been imported from the Netherlands.
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 Ministry of Foreign Affairs has once again taken hard to the Dutch government, as Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Tugrul Türkes is not welcome in our country.
Idil Eser, Director of Amnesty International in Turkey, was arrested on Wednesday morning, along with seven other Turkish human rights activists and two international trainers. They participated in a training from the Dutch organization HIVOS, says project manager Wieke Meilink. The organization had not been able to contact the arrested activists and employees on Thursday morning.
