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At least five people were killed when a boat with migrants sank off the coast of Turkey. Three of the dead are children, says the Turkish Coast Guard.

Nineteen migrants were killed in western Turkey when the truck they were in was crashing. Five people were injured according to Turkish media, including the truck driver.

The American preacher Andrew Brunson will probably visit the White House on Saturday. That says the American president Donald Trump, who has worked for the release of his compatriot.

A boat with migrants has sunk off the coast of Turkey. At least eight people were killed and another 25 are missing, reports the Turkish Coast Guard.

A 29-year-old British mother died of the consequences of a butt lift operation in a Turkish plastic surgery clinic.

A Turkish judge dismissed in appeal the release of the American reverend Andrew Brunson. That is what the broadcaster Haberturk announced on Friday.

A Turkish judge ordered the release of the chairman of Amnesty International (AI) in Turkey, Taner Kilic. Kilic has been in detention in the West-Turkish city of Izmir for more than a year.

Shortly before the Turkish presidential and parliamentary elections, the leader of the largest opposition party, Muharrem Ince of the CHP (Republican People's Party), attracted an estimated 2.5 million people in the western city of Izmir. The CHP itself talks about 3 million supporters on Thursday evening.

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.

An explosion by a bomb in the Turkish city of Izmir, a famous seaside resort, injured eight people on Thursday morning.

The Turkish authorities arrested the director of Amnesty International Turkey on Tuesday, Taner Kilic, a lawyer. According to the newspaper Hürriyet, he is suspected of having ties with Fethullah Gülen, who, according to the Turkish government, is behind the failed coup of July 2016. The house and office of Kilic have been searched.

In Turkey, seventeen Turkish tourists were killed in a bus crash near Marmaris. Thirteen people got injured.

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.

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 'Freedom Falcons of Kurdistan (TAK), a splinter group of the banned Kurdish Workers Party PKK, has claimed responsibility for the attack in Izmir last week. 'Two BRANCH fighters of 25 and 29 years old from southeastern Turkey have this retaliation for the massacre carried out in Kurdistan', TAK made Wednesday by news agency Firat know.

The Turkish police have eighteen people arrested in connection with the bomb blast Thursday in the city of Izmir. In a firefight after the explosion of a car bomb in a parking lot at the courthouse in Izmir two suspected terrorists were slain.

A court in the Turkish city of Izmir on Thursday was a big explosion. According to local media broke out after the explosion a firefight in which two terrorists were slain.

Turkish police on Wednesday arrested in Izmir twenty people suspected of ties to Islamic State. They are believed to come from Central Asia and North Africa. The group was, according to a spokesman from Konya inland traveled to the Aegean coast.

More and more Turks to buy houses or land in Greece, in order to hedge against the uncertain political situation in their own country. Especially doctors, lawyers, businessmen and academics looking to buy real estate in the greater Athens say Greek realtors.

Turkey has arrested the brother of Fethullah Gülen, the spiritual which is in accordance with Turkey behind the coup attempt in July. Kutbettin Gülen was arrested in the port city of Izmir by special anti-terrorist units, according to Turkish media Sunday.

Millions of Turks see him as a CIA puppet Erdogan will drop. However, according to his supporters, he is an enlightened man who wants to modernize Islam. Who wants to understand Turkey can not ignore the mysterious Muslim preacher Fethullah Gulen.

After the failed coup in Turkey, the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan drew the first consequences. On the streets and squares, apart from the display of flags by Erdogan's supporters, but the rest returned to the political scene not long.

Turkish police on Thursday conducted raids in Istanbul and Izmir against possible terrorist cells of Islamic State, reported state news agency Anadolu. The raids come two days after triple suicide bombing at Ataturk Airport in Istanbul in which 42 people were slain.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has strongly condemned the attack on Tuesday at the Ataturk airport in Istanbul. He called on the rest of the world to act decisively against terrorist threats. World leaders reacted with horror.

The Turkish authorities in Izmir arrested a man who would have slain a Russian Air Force pilot in northern Syria. According to Turkish and Russian media fought the man Alpaslan Celik, in Syria against government forces.

Turkish police have arrested at least 22 people on suspicion of spreading terrorist propaganda,, '. That newspaper Hurriyet reported Wednesday. Among those arrested is a provincial leader of the pro-Kurdish party HDP.

With two boat accidents in the Aegean Sea between Greece and Turkey on Monday 33 people drowned.

A woman in Turkey has been nearly a year in prison for insulting Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. According to Turkish media she received the punishment because they were in 2014 when Erdogan was still prime minister, in Izmir yelled at him and made an offensive arm gesture.

The German and Turkish police have done at the same time raids on a major action against smugglers. In Germany were arrested five people in Turkey ten. They are suspected of more than 1700 people in rickety boats across the Mediterranean illegally brought to Europe.