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ISTANBUL, Turkey (AFP) — The Turkish government on Monday unveiled the route of its planned new canal for Istanbul, a hugely ambitious 45 kilometre (28 miles) project designed to be its answer to the famed artificial shipping lanes in Panama or Egypt’s Suez. The project, first announced by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan while he was prime minister in 2011, is by far the most complex of a string of new ventures for the city. The […]
WASHINGTON DC, United States (Reuters) – Washington police have obtained arrest warrants for members of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan’s security team, who attacked peaceful protesters during the leader’s visit to the U.S. capital last month, officials said on Thursday (June 15). Nine people were injured outside the Turkish ambassador’s residence in Washington during a May 16 brawl, which strained U.S.-Turkish relations. A video posted online showed men in dark suits chasing protesters and punching and […]
ISTANBUL, Turkey (AFP) –Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday threatened that the Netherlands would “pay a price” after expelling a Turkish minister and preventing Ankara’s top diplomat from landing ahead of planned rallies. The crisis with the Netherlands is the most serious yet as tensions spiral between Turkey and its EU allies over the desire of top Turkish officials to hold rallies abroad ahead of the April 16 referendum on a new constitution that […]
(Reuters) — A Turkish cargo jet crashed near Kyrgyzstan’s Manas airport on Monday (January 16), killing at least 37 people, most of them residents of a village struck by the Boeing 747 as it tried to land in dense fog, Kyrgyz officials said. According to the airport administration, the plane was supposed to make a stopover at Manas, near the capital city Bishkek, on its way from Hong Kong to Istanbul. It crashed when […]
ANKARA, Turkey (AFP) — Turkish authorities suspended more than 12,000 police officers over alleged links to Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, accused of masterminding the July failed coup, the police headquarters said on Tuesday. Of the 12,801 suspended from duty as part of the investigation into the coup attempt, 2,523 were police chiefs, the police authorities said in a statement. In total, Turkey has around 270,000 police officers. They were suspended over suspected links to the […]
ANKARA, Tukey (AFP) — Turkish police on Thursday rounded up 13 suspects over the triple suicide bombings at Istanbul’s international airport that left 42 people dead, a Turkish official said. “Earlier today, the police raided 16 locations to detain 13 ISIS suspects, including three foreign nationals,” the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. He did not reveal the nationalities of the foreign suspects, but said it was “probable” that at least one of the Ataturk […]
