A number of workers were killed in Turkey because a concrete block got loose during road works. They were dragged through the concrete block for about thirty meters and ended up underneath.
In the Tunisian capital Tunis, hundreds of people went out on the streets Tuesday to demonstrate against the visit of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
Among the crew of the Ukrainian navy vessels that have been brought in by Russia are some members of the Ukrainian secret service. That has declared that service Tuesday. One of the agents was seriously injured because he was hit by a Russian projectile.
A Danish ex-gangster is immediately after the presentation of his book about the underworld. Nedim Yasar (31) opened a book about the ins and outs of Danish gangsters and was attacked after the launch of his book Rødder (Roots). He later died in a hospital. The shooter is fugitive.
Turkeys that get symbolic pardon from the president on the American holiday Thanksgiving usually do not live happily ever after. The birds usually only have a few months to live, news news site Politico.
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.
The leaders of Russia, Turkey, France and Germany have met in Istanbul about the future of Syria. They want to smooth the peace process again. A committee that has to work on a new constitution for the country must, according to a joint statement, start working in Geneva before the end of the year.
The Turkish Public Prosecution Service has issued an extradition request for the suspects of the murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The government-oriented newspaper Daily Sabah announced this on Friday.
A senior public prosecutor from Saudi Arabia comes to Turkey on Sunday to speak with the leader of the investigation into the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. That is what the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan said.
The European Parliament wants to close the money supply for Turkey next year. The so-called pre-accession support of the EU should be reduced by EUR 147 million in 2019 due to political developments in the country, in addition to a 40% reduction proposed by the European Commission for the next two years.
The Saudi authorities have confirmed the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. According to the Saudi prosecutor, there is a fight between him and people he met out there at the consulate in Istanbul that led to his death, reports Saudi state television.
Turkey will share the information from the investigation into the disappearance of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi with the world. Minister of Foreign Affairs Mevlüt Cavusoglu announced this Friday. He pointed out that this has not happened yet. The investigation is still running according to the minister and if everything has been clarified, Turkey makes the evidence public.
The US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo thinks that the United States should give Saudi Arabia a few days to complete the investigation into the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. He said that to President Donald Trump on Thursday, he told journalists at the White House.
Russian President Vladimir Putin sees no reason to revise relations with Saudi Arabia. He said Thursday that Russia does not have enough information about the unexplained disappearance of a Saudi journalist to justify a review of ties with Riyadh.
With a one-day delay, the Turkish authorities have now also searched the home of Saudi consul in Istanbul in the hope of finding traces of the missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The state press agency Anadolu reported that a detective team entered the building on Wednesday.
A number of suspects identified by Turkey in the case of the missing Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi comes from the immediate surroundings of the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The New York Times writes this on the basis of facial recognition, social network profiles, media reports and leaked Saudi government documents.
The Turkish police will search the home of the Saudi consul in Istanbul on Tuesday. This is a day after the police searched the Saudi consulate for nine hours. According to reports from Turkish media, detectives also return Tuesday at the consulate for further investigation. The consul general himself, Cemal Kasikci, has not yet been questioned.
Turkey has given a new name to the road leading to the new American embassy in the country. The road in the capital Ankara is now called the Malcolm X road, to the leader of the militant civil rights movement for black Americans who was murdered in 1965.
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 visited President Donald Trump on Saturday in the White House. Brunson, who was released on Friday in Turkey, knelt on entry to the Oval Office, prayed for the president and asked God to give Trump superhuman wisdom to lead the country.
After the release of the American preacher Andrew Brunson and his departure from Turkey, the presidents of Turkey and the United States can get together again through Twitter. Brunson, who was held in Turkey for about two years on suspected ties with terror organizations until Friday afternoon, was at the center of a serious dispute between Ankara and Washington.
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.
Turkey never becomes a member of the EU. Accession talks with the country are officially truncated as Manfred Weber, the leader of the Christian Democrats in the European Parliament, will become the new President of the European Commission next year.
The American preacher Andrew Brunson is released immediately. The Turkish judge sentenced him to three years in prison, but said immediately that he no longer has to go back to jail, since he has been in pre-trial detention long enough. All restrictions on the evangelical minister have also been lifted.
Employees of the Turkish government have told colleagues from the United States that they have video and audio evidence that the journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. The Americans say to The Washington Post that especially the audio evidence is very strong. It would be heard that Khashoggi is arrested, tortured and eventually killed and cut into pieces.
The White House expects preacher Andrew Brunson to be released in a few days. The American government has made agreements with Turkey, say high-level sources against the American NBC News.
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.
The Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered at the consulate of Saudi Arabia. That is what Yasin Aktay, adviser to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of the Turkish ruling party AK, told TV channel CNN Turk. He said earlier that Khashoggi did not leave the consulate in a 'normal way'.
A prominent critic of the government in Saudi Arabia has disappeared in Turkey. He is probably being held at the consulate of Saudi Arabia in Istanbul.
A Turkish judge has confirmed the life sentence for the prominent journalist Ahmet Altan and five colleagues on Tuesday. They can not claim conditional release and can not benefit from a possible amnesty scheme. The state press agency Anadolu has announced this.
