Category Archives: ANKARA, Turkey

Turkey seeks 249 suspects over cheating at ministry exam

Posted on May 20, 2019 by FOX News

Authorities in Turkey have issued detention warrants for 249 people as part of an investigation into alleged cheating during exams to recruit staff to the country's foreign ministry between 2010 and 2013.

Turkey: 14 get life over 2016 bombings near Istanbul stadium

Posted on May 17, 2019 by FOX News

Turkey's state-run news agency says a court has sentenced 14 people to life imprisonment without parole over two bombings near an Istanbul soccer stadium in 2016 that killed 47 people.

Turkey allows lawyers to visit jailed Kurdish rebel leader

Posted on May 16, 2019 by FOX News

Turkey's justice minister says imprisoned Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan will be allowed regular visits by his lawyers to his island prison.

Turkish, Iraqi leaders discuss military cooperation

Posted on May 15, 2019 by FOX News

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Turkey and Iraq have discussed a possible deal to increase military and security cooperation between the neighboring countries.

Turkey detains 2 militants trying to enter parliament

Posted on May 15, 2019 by FOX News

Turkish officials say police have detained two suspected left-wing militants who tried to enter the country's parliament with sharp objects and a hoax explosive device.

Turkish opposition journalist hospitalized following attack

Posted on May 11, 2019 by FOX News

A journalist critical of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government and its nationalist allies has been hospitalized after being attacked outside his home.

Turkey calls for end to Syrian forces offensive on Idlib

Posted on May 10, 2019 by FOX News

Turkey's Defense Minister Hulusi Akar is accusing the Syrian government of trying to expand its field of control in Idlib province in violation of a Russian-Turkish cease-fire brokered last September.

Opposition seeks redo of Istanbul district votes won by AKP

Posted on May 8, 2019 by FOX News

Turkey's opposition is appealing to the country's top electoral body for an annulment of local election results in Istanbul's 39 districts after the authority annulled its victory in the city's mayoral race and ordered a new vote.

Opposition slams decision for re-run Istanbul vote as ‘coup’

Posted on May 7, 2019 by FOX News

Turkey's opposition is denouncing a decision by the country's electoral board to force a re-run of the mayoral race in Istanbul.

Lawyer: Kurdish rebel chief wants hunger strikes to end

Posted on May 6, 2019 by FOX News

A lawyer says imprisoned Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan has called on hundreds of hunger-striking prisoners "not to endanger their lives."

Erdogan: Turkey not seeking alternatives to ties with West

Posted on May 6, 2019 by FOX News

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Turkey's decision to purchase Russian-made S-400 missile defense systems doesn't mean that it is seeking "alternatives" in its relations with the West.

Turkish citizen hit in Christchurch attack dies; toll at 51

Posted on May 2, 2019 by FOX News

Turkey's foreign minister says a Turkish citizen who was wounded in the mosque attacks in New Zealand has died.

Prosecutors probe alleged fraud in Istanbul local elections

Posted on May 2, 2019 by FOX News

Turkey's state-run news agency says prosecutors have launched investigations into alleged irregularities during local elections in Istanbul that resulted in a narrow victory for the opposition.

Turkey: 1 soldier killed, 3 wounded in YPG attack in Syria

Posted on April 30, 2019 by FOX News

Turkish officials say a soldier has been killed and three others were wounded in an attack by Syrian Kurdish militants in a Turkish-controlled region in northern Syria.

Rights group: 3,000 prisoners on hunger strike in Turkey

Posted on April 30, 2019 by FOX News

A Turkish human rights group says close to 3,000 prisoners have joined a hunger strike to press authorities to end the alleged isolation in jail of Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan.

Turkey: 22 IS suspects detained in security sweep

Posted on April 29, 2019 by FOX News

Turkey's state-run news agency says police in the capital, Ankara, have detained 22 people suspected of links to the Islamic State group.

Man accused of being UAE spy dies in Turkish jail

Posted on April 29, 2019 by FOX News

Turkey's state-run news agency says a man accused of spying for the United Arab Emirates has committed suicide in prison.

6 Turkish journalists sent to jail after losing appeals

Posted on April 25, 2019 by FOX News

Six former journalists and staff of an opposition newspaper in Turkey have returned to prison to serve their sentences after an appeals court confirmed their conviction on terror charges.

Turkey urges study of its archives over Armenian genocide

Posted on April 24, 2019 by FOX News

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is challenging nations who label the mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as genocide, saying they should inspect Turkey's Ottoman-era archives and "we have nothing to hide."

Turkey: 9 detained in opposition leader’s assault at funeral

Posted on April 22, 2019 by FOX News

Turkey's interior minister says nine people have been detained in the assault of an opposition party leader, who was hit during a soldier's funeral.