Search the Community
Showing results for tags 'turkey'.
Found 9 results
-
US shoots down armed Turkish drone after it came too close to US troops in Syria APNEWS.COM The Pentagon says the U.S. military shot down an armed Turkish drone that came within 500 meters of American troops in northeastern Syria. Drone attack kills 80 and wounds 240 at a packed Syrian military graduation ceremony, official says APNEWS.COM Syria’s health minister says a drone attack that hit a packed military graduation ceremony in the central city of Homs has killed 80 and wounded 240. -
Turkey has concluded that Jamal Khashoggi, a prominent journalist from Saudi Arabia, was killed in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul earlier this week by a Saudi team sent “specifically for the murder,” two people with knowledge of the probe said Saturday. Turkish investigators believe a 15-member team “came from Saudi Arabia. It was a preplanned murder,” said one of the people.
-
Turkey moves to throw out US and nine other envoys WWW.BBC.COM President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declares them "persona non grata" for urging an activist's release.
-
Plane carrying Turkish defense chiefs makes forced landing WWW.THEREPUBLIC.COM Turkish state media reports say a plane carrying the country's defense minister and other top military officials was forced to make an emergency landing after hitting a bird
-
Dispute over exploration of energy reserves in eastern Mediterranean escalates
-
It all started when a Syrian airstrike killed 33 Turkish soldiers a few days ago. Today, Turkish drone strikes targeted Syrian armor, artillery, and radar sites and a Turkish F-16 shot down two Syrian aircraft.
-
Turkey receives Russian air defense system, threatening rift with U.S.
-
Turks and Saudis have been enemies for centuries. Now the Khashoggi investigation has rekindled their fierce rivalry—and may upend the politics of the Middle East Two centuries ago, in the fall of 1818, the Saudi monarch was brought to Istanbul in chains. He was displayed in a cage to the cheering crowds outside the Hagia Sophia mosque, and then, amid celebratory fireworks, his head was chopped off. After the deposed Saudi monarch was beheaded outside the Hagia Sophia, his body was propped up in public for three days with his severed head under his arm. (As for the Wahhabi imam, he was sent to Istanbul’s bazaar for beheading, the diplomat reported.)
-
A fresh plunge in the Turkish lira sent tremors through global currency markets on Monday, amid fears that the failure of Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government to tackle its worsening financial crisis would have a domino effect on other vulnerable countries.
