The southeastern Hakkari province’s gendarmerie command issued a mandatory evacuation order on Friday, telling villagers to evacuate the highlands on Mount Kato. The order was sent out in letters to Pınarca, Kamışlı, Çaylıca and Kamal village heads, asking for immediate evacuation of the higlands that lie on the Hakkari side of Mount Kato. The reason [...]
US Ambassador in Ankara Francis Ricciardone said on Friday that the U.S will give three Super Cobra helicopters to Turkey, TGRT news channel reported. Turkey had been asking for Super Cobras to replace the helicopters it lost during its campaign against the PKK. Meanwhile, one person died and two were wounded in an explosion in [...]
The Israeli air force launched a raid over the Gaza Strip after a rocket was fired from the Palestinian territory towards southern Israel Thursday, a military spokesman said. The rocket fired from Gaza landed in an abandoned building in Israel’s Shaar Hanegev area, the spokesman said. Hours later, an Israeli air force plane fired a [...]
The United States on Wednesday said it wanted to see Cyprus’ resources shared between the two communities living on the island. Victoria Nuland, the spokesperson for the US State Department, said the US is interested in “revenue-sharing” as proposed by the UN. “We are interested in this proposal for UN mediation of revenue-sharing. Overall, though, [...]
Officials from Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT) emphasized during US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper’s visit to Ankara last week that future anti-terror cooperation between the two countries must include concrete US efforts to disrupt operations of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in northern Iraq. According to documents obtained by the Turkish daily [...]
Energy and Natural Resources Minister Taner Yıldız has said that if Russia does not respond to Turkey’s demands to reduce natural gas prices, Turkey plans to terminate the contract it has with its northeastern neighbor. Speaking to reporters in Ankara on Thursday, Yıldız, in response to a question regarding natural gas prices, which have increased [...]
Two soldiers were killed and three others were injured by terrorists from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), who fired on a military unit patrolling near the Beytüşşebap district of the southeastern province of Şırnak on Friday. Initial reports said three terrorists were also killed in the ensuing clash. The PKK, recognized as a terrorist [...]
A Turkish seismic research ship which is exploring gas near Cyprus was harassed by two low-flying Israel warplanes and a helicopter on Thursday night, Turkish Vatan daily reported on Friday. Vatan referred to a story by the Greek Cypriot daily Phileleftheros, which argued that Israel boosted its presence in the Eastern Mediterranean as of Thursday [...]
A new intercontinental Russian missile whose development has been kept as a state secret failed in its first test-firing and crashed back into the launch zone, reports said Wednesday. Reports published on Russian news agencies about the failed test firing from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in northern Russia appeared to be the first indication that the [...]
A graphic animation and security camera recording from a gas station shows Monday’s attack by suspected members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, that killed three civilians and a police officer, including a three-year-old child and a pregnant woman. The footage from a gas station in the southeastern province of Batman shows that [...]
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