The suicide bombings that killed at least 97 people and wounded over 500 at a peace rally in Ankara, Turkey last Saturday have been officially linked to the Islamic State, according to Turkish officials.
Two explosions tore through a peace rally, organized ahead of snap parliamentary elections, in the Turkish capital of Ankara on Saturday morning, killing at least 86 people and wounding 186.
Jake Hanrahan and Philip Pendlebury, the two Vice News journalists arrested on terror charges in Turkey last week, have been released, according to Turkish officials who spoke with the Associated Press and CNN Turk. The journalists’ Iraqi fixer and translator, Mohammed Rasool, reportedly remains in prison.
Two journalists working for VICE News have reportedly been arrested and charged with “engaging in terror activity” in southeastern Turkey. The AFP reports that a Turkish court has accused Jake Hanrahan, Philip Pendlebury, and their Iraqi translator of allegedly attempting to aid ISIS.
For reasons that were not immediately clear, Turkish police in central Istanbul used water cannon and rubber bullets to disperse a crowd gathered for the city’s annual gay pride parade, Reuters reports.
A Turkish prosecutor and the two gunmen holding him hostage were killed today after police stormed a courthouse in Istanbul. Prosecutor Mehmet Selim Kiraz was shot three times in the head and twice in the body, according to Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan.
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan greets Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, at Erdoğan's new, $575 million palace in Ankara as 16 Turkish warriors dressed in historical armor stand guard. Photo via Associated Press.
Supermodel, aspiring magician, and self-proclaimed demotivational speaker Chrissy Teigen would like to remind you of one important truth this Thanksgiving: Turkey is trash.
John Oliver just popped in from his winter Last Week Tonight hiatus to take a strong stance against an egregious overuse of presidential power that's been going on too long in this country: The annual Thanksgiving turkey pardon.
Kobani, where tens of thousands have been forced to flee their homes, endured some of its "fiercest fighting in days" over the weekend as the battle between regional Kurds and ISIS forces extends into its fourth week. In what's been described as a crucial symbolic measure, the U.S. dropped 27 bundles of supplies to…
Following a three-week onslaught that has driven more than 180,000 from the Syrian border town of Kobani, ISIS forces are on the verge of capturing the area, even as the U.S. ramped up airstrikes in the region this week.
Forty-six Turkish hostages, including diplomats, consulate guards and children, who had been captured and held for nearly three months by Islamic State militants in northern Iraq returned to Turkey Saturday morning following a successful Turkish covert operation. Three non-Turkish hostages taken in the same attack…
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the prime minister of Turkey, has called Israel's current ground striking of Gaza "barbarism that surpasses Hitler." The prime minster was speaking at Ordu on Saturday when he made his remarks during a campaign speech.
In the past week, Al Qaeda-connected Islamic militants have attacked multiple cities across Iraq and are rapidly consolidating power in the nation that the United States spent so much blood and treasure trying to stabilize. The situation is dire and dynamic. Here's some of what we know.
Ivan Watson, a correspondent for CNN reporting from Istanbul, Turkey, was delivering a report on the heavy police presence on the one-year anniversary of the Taksim Square protests, when he was taken in by authorities on live TV.
The death toll from Tuesday's explosion at a Turkish coal mine now stands at 274, making it the worst mining disaster in the country's history. As many as 150 workers remain missing.
Miners are helped by rescue workers and friends from a coal mine on Wednesday in Soma, Turkey, more than 19 hours after an explosion and fire killed at least 238 miners and trapped hundreds more. Energy Minister Taner Yildiz said 787 workers had been in the mine when the blast occurred. Image via Ozgu Ozdemir/Getty.
Tuesday afternoon, an explosion and huge fire at a coal mine in Soma, Turkey trapped hundreds of workers, leaving at least 232 dead and more than 200 missing.
Sefer Calinak, when he appeared on a Turkish dating show called Luck of the Draw, revealed to the host that he had murdered both his former wife and former lover. He had served a prison sentence for both murders and was released under an amnesty program.
[Turkish graffiti spreads the IP addresses of Google's DNS servers, useful for getting around the government's ban on Twitter. The tag reads "let the bird sing." Image via @FindikKahve/Twitter.]
