A bomb explosion outside a military housing complex wounded two civilians in Turkey’s southeastern Diyarbakır province Thursday night, an official said, according to the Associated Press.
Diyarbakır Gov. Mustafa Toprak said Friday the injured were in stable condition after the overnight attack.
The cause of the explosion was a noise bomb, Anatolia news agency reported. Read the rest of this entry »
Eight people, including one police officer, were injured when a bomb exploded in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district, the Anatolia news agency reported Thursday.
The blast was caused by a medium-strength bomb that was mounted on an electric bicycle near a bus stop in Etiler neighborhood, Istanbul Police Chief Hüseyin Çapkın said.
Ayten Bal, 38, and Yazgülü Şubatlı were seriously injured in the explosion. Read the rest of this entry »
Syria has handed over three members of the PKK terrorist organization to Turkish authorities under the Adana Agreement.
Terrorists will be questioned by Turkish security forces.
Syria has so far handed over 125 terrorists to Turkey since the signing of the agreement. Read the rest of this entry »
Security forces neutralized 12 terrorists during operations conducted in the southeastern Turkey.
General Staff’s web-site stated on Saturday that security forces neutralized 12 terrorists, who were trying to sneak into Turkey along Iraqi border, during two separate operations staged in Uludere town of the southeastern province of Sirnak.
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Separatist Kurdish rebels claimed responsibility Friday for an armed attack on an election convoy of Turkey’s ruling party that killed one policeman, an agency close to the militants reported.
Wednesday’s attack in northern Turkey “was carried out by our guerrillas as a retaliation to police terror against the (Kurdish) people,” the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) said in a statement carried by the Firat news agency.
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At least seven people, among them four policemen, were injured in southeast Turkey on Wednesday as Kurds held violent demonstrations at the funeral of militants killed by the army.
The unrest broke in Diyarbakir, the largest city of the Kurdish-majority region, as some 5,000 people took to the streets for the funeral of the four rebels from the separatist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). Read the rest of this entry »
Turkey’s foreign minister said on Tuesday Turkey has been closely monitoring the legal process started against Roj TV on charges that it broadcast programs encouraging terrorism.
“Recent developments have shown that terrorism is a crime of humanity,” Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said while speaking at a joint news conference with his Danish counterpart Lene Espersen. Read the rest of this entry »
A top Turkish official expressed disappointment Tuesday with the level of international cooperation Turkey has received in its own fight against terrorism, as the U.S. ambassador pledged his country’s full support.
“As much as success in the fight against terror makes us happy, the fact that there is no international cooperation in that fight saddens us,” Deputy Prime Minister Cemil Çiçek said, referring to Turkey’s counterterrorism operations against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK. Read the rest of this entry »
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