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Gunfire heard near Turkish PM’s office
Broadcaster NTV says three shots fired near Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s office but that they are blank cartridges.
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Clashes between ‘Turkish forces and PKK’
Officials say nine people dead in two overnight clashes between army, village guards and Kurdish fighters in southeast.
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Syria bans Turkish flights as ties plummet
Damascus bans civilian flights over its air space claiming retaliation to Ankara’s interception of a Syrian airliner.
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Syria bans Turkish civil flights
Syria says it has banned Turkish civilian flights over its territory, days after Turkey intercepted a Syrian plane.
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Turkish premier slams Security Council over Syria
ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s prime minister sharply criticized the U.N. Security Council on Saturday for its failure to agree on decisive steps to end Syria’s civil war, as NATO ally Germany backed the Turkish interception of a Damascus-bound passenger jet…
Turkish jets force down Syrian airliner
Ankara scrambled fighter jets to force a Syrian passenger airliner to land in the Turkish capital and banned its civilian aircraft from Syrian airspace
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Turkish president says “worst case” unfolding in Syria
GUVECCI, Turkey (Reuters) – Turkish President Abdullah Gul said on Monday the “worst-case scenarios” were now playing out in Syria and Turkey would to do everything necessary to protect itself, while its army fired back for a sixth day after…
Turkish army returns fire after Syrian mortar strike
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – The Turkish military returned fire after a mortar bomb shot from Syria landed in countryside in southern Turkey on Saturday, the state-run Anatolian news agency reported.
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Turkish military strikes targets inside Syria
Retaliation follows mortar attack from Syrian territory that killed family of five in border town of Akcakale.
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Syrian refugees languish in squalor at Turkish border
On the northern edge of this war-torn country, barely a hundred meters from Turkey, thousands of desperate Syrians sleep in the dirt at a filthy, makeshift camp.
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Deadly blast strikes Turkish city
Seven people have been killed in a blast that struck a military vehicle in the eastern Turkish city of Tunceli, Turkish media report.
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Syrian mortars strike Turkish villages
The chaos in Syria has once again spilled across borders, with mortars striking villages in southern Turkey.
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Turkish court to give verdict in ‘coup trial’
Officers accused of plotting to overthrow the government await first ruling from several cases targeting the army.
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Roadside blast kills Turkish police officers
Officials blame Kurdish group for attack in Bingol province, which comes amid army operation in country’s southeast.
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Turkish captain charged over migrant deaths
Captain and first mate detained over the capsizing of a boat carrying mostly Arab refugees which left 61 dead.
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Dozens of Turkish soldiers killed in blast
Bodies of 25 soldiers found after fires extinguished in ammunition depot blast in country’s west.
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‘Deadly blast’ hits Turkish city
A suspected car bomb in the south-eastern Turkish city of Gaziantep leaves at least seven people dead, security sources and media say.
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Turkish Kurdish MP abducted ‘by PKK’
Reports says Huseyin Aygun was taken hostage at a roadblock between the town of Ovacik and Tunceli.
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Exclusive: Secret Turkish nerve center leads aid to Syria rebels
DOHA/DUBAI (Reuters) – Turkey has set up a secret base with allies Saudi Arabia and Qatar to direct vital military and communications aid to Syria’s rebels from a city near the border, Gulf sources have told Reuters.
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Crew of downed Turkish jet found
The bodies of the crew members of a Turkish jet shot down by Syria last month are found.
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