A Russian navy ship collided with a ship that transported cattle on Thursday for the Turkish coast. Certainly fifteen Russian soldiers are still missing, said the Turkish television channel NTV.
The US Army announced Friday that killed the IS headpiece Abdul Rahman Uzbeki. According to Colonel John Thomas, spokesman for the Central Command, this happened earlier this month during a secret ground operation near the Syrian city of Mayadin. He did not give details.
The Turkish police attacked the online medium Sendika.org in Istanbul on Thursday. Chief Editor Ali Ergin Demirhan was taken because he refused to acknowledge the outcome of the Constitution last Sunday, left the left-wing activist-driven media aware. Demirhan's computer and mobile phone were seized.
Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday TV expressed the hope that Turkey will benefit from the outcome of the referendum on extending his power.
More than 55 million Turks vote today in a referendum for or against constitutional amendments. If 'evet' (yes) wins, then Turkey is a parliamentary democracy, but it turns into a presidential system. The president is head of state except head of the executive. The prime minister and the cabinet are abolished in that case, the president appoints the ministers and they can now also dismiss and can dissolve parliament. He will have more influence on the judiciary. The parliament may in principle sell a president, but a large majority required for that. The age at which you will be brought forward to be elected to parliament from 25 to 18 years. The number of seats in parliament will be expanded from 550 to 600 in the proposal.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday his vote cast in his hometown of Istanbul. Turkey voting Sunday in a referendum on a constitutional amendment that allows the president to a powerful prime minister and legislator.
Should the Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan to win the referendum, it is the way for the reintroduction of capital punishment open. He said Saturday during a campaign in Istanbul.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has ruled out the extradition of the German-Turkish journalist Deniz Yücel to the Federal Republic. He said that transfer to the authorities in Ankara on the TV channel TGRT Turkish nationals in response to the German refusal.
The police in Istanbul arrested seven suspects who would have been attacking in the run-up to Sunday's referendum. The four Turks, two Syrians and Tajik wanted to 'provide chaos' in Turkey, police said.
The German journalist Deniz Yücel, who is stuck in Turkey, Wednesday in jail married his girlfriend Dilek Mayatürk, a TV producer. The correspondent of the magazine Die Welt is since February 27 in custody. He may only receive visits from his lawyers, family members and, on request, Turkish parliamentarians. Their marriage has now Mayatürk access to the penitentiary Silivri, west of Istanbul.
last week used the nerve gas sarin the Syrian air strike in the Idlib province. According to the Turkish Minister of Health Recep Akda is now confirmed after testing on some of the victims.
Syria still has chemical weapons and the possibility to deploy. The Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Tuesday that it has shown Turkish investigation.
The Turkish government puts in the referendum Sunday 390,000 people in safety. That Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu Monday informed.
Due to an accident with a hot air balloon in Cappadocia Turkey on Sunday killed a French tourist. Twenty other people were injured, according to the Egyptian news agency DHA.
Turkish President Erdogan on Saturday voters abroad called Sunday to come to the polls for the referendum on the political system in the country. 'I call it abroad from Istanbul to: do not underestimate it, go without hesitation to the polls and vote.'
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan celebrated the missile attack on the United States on Syria Friday as a positive development. But at the same time he said it was not enough and that 'serious steps' are needed to protect the Syrian people.
Autopsies on victims of the deadly poison gas attack in Syria has shown that the nerve gas sarin was used. This was announced by the Turkish Ministry of Health Thursday.
Autopsy in Turkey shows that have been used in the attack Tuesday in Khan Sheikhoun Syrian chemical weapons. That stated, the Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag Thursday. What chemicals are used, he said no.
The Syrian opposition denies that an attack on the Syrian site Khan Sheikhoun Tuesday a store has been hit with chemicals from the rebels. The second man of the Syrian National Coalition (SNC) Russia's statement called 'a lie.' The SNC called a 'massacre' that has been done under the responsibility of the Syrian government.
Turkey, the German government pledged that they will have access to the German reporter Deniz Yücel, who has been arrested in Istanbul seven weeks ago. The German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel said on Monday that may speak a representative of the German Embassy in Turkey Tuesday with Yücel.
Residents of the conservative Kastamonu on the Black Sea in northern Turkey at one o'clock at night awakened to their horror by the sound of a porn movie that came from the loudspeakers of the town.
Turkey will maintain its relationship with Europe reassessed after the referendum in April, President Erdogan said Tuesday. He said Europe ' fascist and cruel '', with many similarities to the period before World War II.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is targeting not only government in the Netherlands and Germany. On Monday, the International Olympic Committee got it down.
Angela Merkel on Monday against her looking statements of the Turkish President Erdogan rejected on ' Nazi methods'. German Chancellor reiterated that Nazi comparisons on the part of Turkey without having to stop.
Turkish police have arrested three men suspected of having ties it maintained with Anis Amri. The Tunisian rode the Christmas market in Berlin on December 19 with a truck twelve visitors died. Fifty others were wounded.
The Turkish president Erdogan after Germany also Chancellor Angela Merkel personally using 'Nazi methods' faulted. He did that Sunday in a speech in Istanbul.
The Turkish Minister of the Interior has threatened Friday to send refugees towards the EU. 'If you wish, we pave the way each month for 15,000 refugees, as we have so far not done so you wonder anything ever again,' Süleyman Soylu told state news agency Anadolu.
A Turkish court has the request of the German weekly release of Deniz Yücel, a correspondent Die Welt rejected. The German-Turkish journalist since late last month is fixed, according to the charges of making propaganda for a terrorist organization and inciting public violence.
The accusations of European countries abused the Turkish government patriotism to win a referendum in April. This said, the center-left parliamentarian Baris Yarkadas Wednesday.
Nowhere else in Europe, the party of Erdogan got such a high score in the recent Turkish elections in Flanders. Just under 68 percent of the Flemish-Turks voted for his PAC in November 2015. Writes De Standaard Tuesday. Only in Lebanon percentage was 85 percent higher. In the Netherlands was about 64 percent.
