Three suicide bombers opened fire before blowing themselves up in the main international airport in Istanbul on Tuesday, killing 31 people and wounding close to 150, Reuters reports, citing officials. ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-29
A car bomb exploded at a crowded transport hub in the Turkish capital Ankara on Sunday, killing at least 34 people and wounding 125 in the second such attack in the administrative heart of the city in ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-14
Turkey's top-selling newspaper Zaman began running flattering stories on President Tayyip Erdogan a day after it was taken ove the government. It's the latest twist in a long-running conflict between ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-07
A car bomb exploded near the military headquarters in the Turkish capital Ankara, killing 28 people and wounding dozens. The blast took place next to army buses waiting for the traffic light to change ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-18
Russia is accusing Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and his family of benefiting from illegal oil smuggling from Islamic State-held territory in Syria and Iraq. The defense ministry in Moscow says it ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-03
NATO allies plan to send patrol aircraft and missiles to strengthen Ankara's air defenses on its border with Syria, officials said, following Turkey's shooting-down of a Russian bomber. As NATO countr ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-02
Russian President Vladimir Putin said the reason Turkey downed a Russian warplane last week was that it wanted to protect supplies of oil from Islamic State. Putin added that the decision to shoot dow ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-01
Russia sent an advanced missile system to Syria to protect its jets operating there, Reuters reported. Moscow pledged its air force would keep flying missions near Turkish air space, sounding a defian ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-26
Turkey shot down a Russian warplane near the Syrian border on Tuesday for alleged violation of Turkish air space, heightening tensions in the already volatile region. Rejecting accusations that the j ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-25
Turkey believes Islamic State is behind a double suicide bombing in Ankara that killed up to 128 people on Saturday. However, opponents of President Tayyip Erdogan are blaming him for the worst such a ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-12
Turkey attacked Kurdish insurgent camps in Iraq in a campaign that could end its peace process with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), Reuters reported, citing security forces. Ankara, which called fo ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-27
Thailand's prime minister defended a decision to forcibly return nearly 100 Muslim Uyghur migrants to China despite rights groups' fears they could face ill-treatment, Reuters reported. Prime Minister ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-10
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan's hopes of assuming greater powers suffered a serious blow when the ruling AK Party failed to win an outright majority in a parliamentary election, preliminary results ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-08
The European Parliament has passed a motion that describes the massacre of up to 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turkish forces a century ago as a "genocide". The resolution comes days after Pope Fra ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-16
An Istanbul prosecutor and his two captors were killed after security forces stormed the office where members of a far-left Turkish group took him hostage on Tuesday. Turkish President Tayyip Erdoga ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-01
The European Union and the United States criticized Turkish police raids on media outlets close to a US-based Muslim cleric, which have led to the arrest of at least 24 people. The operations against ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-15
United States-led coalition forces have carried out sustained air attacks on Islamic State fighters closing in on the Syrian border town of Kobani, after Turkey's president warned it was about to fall ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-08
