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Turkey orders detention of over 1,000 people for links with failed coup
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Ankara [Turkey], Feb 13 (ANI): Turkey has ordered for the arrest of 1,112 people over suspected links to the failed 2016 coup attempt.
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4 soldiers dead in chopper crash in Istanbul
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Istanbul [Turkey], Feb 12 (ANI): Four soldiers lost their lives after a military chopper during an emergency landing here on Monday evening (local time) crashed in the residential area of Turkey's Çekmeköy region.
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Death toll rises to 21 in Istanbul building collapse
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Istanbul [Turkey], Feb 10 (ANI): Twenty one people died after an eight-storeyed building collapsed in Istanbul, the Turkish Interior Ministry reported on Saturday (local time).
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Turkey calls on China to shut down Uighur "concentration camps"
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Ankara [Turkey], Feb 9 (ANI): Turkey slammed China for its "systematic assimilation policy towards Uighur Turks," labelling it a "great embarrassment for humanity" while urging Beijing to shut down the "concentration camps".
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‘Important for us that the body is found’, says Khashoggi's fiancée
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Ankara [Turkey], Feb 9 (ANI): Hatice Cengiz, fiancée of deceased scribe Jamal Khashoggi, on Friday (local time) called for the remains of the body of the former Washington Post columnist, while complaining that the deceased has not even received any proper burial where his loved ones can gri
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Khashoggi killing ‘planned and perpetrated by Saudi Arabia’: UN
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Ankara [Turkey], Feb 8 (ANI): The United Nation's (UN) special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings, Agnes Callamard, leading the investigations into deceased scribe Jamal Khashoggi's death, on Thursday confirmed that evidence showed the latter to be victim of "a brutal and premeditated kil
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'No satisfactory plan' with US on Syria safe zone, says Erdogan
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Ankara [Turkey], Feb 6 (ANI): Weeks after United States President Donald Trump suggested the creation of a "safe zone" in northeastern Syria, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that no acceptable plan has been tabled for the same.
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1,200-year-old Bible found in southeastern Turkey
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Kayapinar [Turkey], Feb 5 (ANI): Authorities have seized a Bible that is believed to be 1,200 years old from the possession of three smugglers in an operation undertaken here on Monday.
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Khashoggi's killing: UN probe wraps up in Turkey
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Ankara [Turkey], Feb 3 (ANI): The United Nation's (UN) special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings, Agnes Callamard, has wrapped up investigations into deceased scribe Jamal Khashoggi's death in Turkey.
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'Safe zones in Syria to allow refugees to return home'
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Istanbul [Turkey], Jan 29 (ANI): Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said his country is planning to form 'safe zones' in northern Syria so that Syrian refugees in Turkey can return to their home country.
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UN Envoy gets no reply from Saudi Consulate on journalist Khashoggi's kill
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Ankara [Turkey], Jan 25 (ANI): The UN's special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Agnes Callamard, who will be conducting an international probe into the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, on Sunday, said that she has not yet received any reply fr
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Turkish military shoot, wound 3 Iraqi civilians who attacked military base
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
Erbil [Iraq], Jan 27 (ANI): Three Iraqi civilians were shot and wounded by Turkish troops after scores of protesters stormed a Turkish military base in Northern Iraq on Saturday.
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