Turkey: We'll keep secret behind hostage release
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his government will not reveal details of a covert operation that ensured the release of 49 people held hostage by the Islamic State group. The hostages — 46 Turks and three Iraqis ...
Russia-Turkey food deal worries Turkish consumers
ISTANBUL: Russian President Vladimir Putin has started talks with Turkey to supply food to Russia, after Moscow announced it would ban food imports worth about US$9 billion from the European Union, United States, Canada, Australia and Norway in a snub ...
Turkey troops use tear gas to clear Syria border Kurds
Turkish security forces have fired water cannon and tear gas at crowds which had gathered in support of Syrian Kurdish refugees on the border. Police said they wanted to stop Kurdish fighters entering Syria, the Associated Press reported, while local TV ...
Syrian refugee flight to Turkey one of the worst since war began - U.N.
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey is facing one of the biggest influxes of refugees from neighbouring Syria since the war there began more than three years ago, the United Nations' refugee agency said on Sunday, as civilians continued to flee clashes between ...
70,000 Syrian Kurds flee to Turkey from IS violence: UN
ANKARA, Sept. 21 (Xinhua) -- Some 70,000 Syrian Kurds have crossed into Turkey since Friday fleeing violence of Islamic State (IS) militants who have seized dozens of Kurdish villages in northern Syria, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said on ...
As ISIS closes in on Syrian border town, thousands flee to Turkey
United Nations: Fearing an onslaught by the Sunni extremist group Islamic State, some 70,000 people from the Syrian border town of Kobani fled to neighbouring Turkey, said the United Nations relief Agency. Commending Turkey for its “welcoming response ...
