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/ 31 January 2008
At least 19 people were killed and 69 were injured on Thursday when an explosion ripped through an Istanbul building that housed workshops including an illegal fireworks factory. Television footage showed debris from the building strewn through the streets of the industrial district of Davutpasa.
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/ 30 November 2007
A Turkish domestic airliner crashed in the mountains in south-west Turkey on Friday, killing all 57 people on board, officials said. The death toll, previously reported as 56, rose to 57 as a baby on the plane had not been counted, Turkish Pilots’ Association chairperson Tuna Gurel told a news conference.
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/ 30 November 2007
A Turkish airliner crashed near the town of Isparta in central Turkey on Friday, killing all 56 people on board, officials said. ”Rescue teams have reached the wreckage … There are no survivors,” the chief executive of the AtlasJet airline, Tuncay Doganer, told a televised news conference.
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/ 28 October 2007
Turkish soldiers killed 20 Kurdish guerrillas on Sunday in a major military operation against separatist rebels in eastern Turkey, army sources said. The operation involving 8 000 troops backed up from the air was launched in the central-eastern province of Tunceli. The sources gave no word on army casualties.
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/ 26 October 2007
Turkish helicopters ferried more troops to the border with Iraq on Friday as diplomatic efforts got under way in Ankara to avert a major offensive against Kurdish guerrillas based in northern Iraq. Turkey has massed up to 100 000 troops along the mountainous border before a possible cross-border operation to crush about 3 000 guerrillas of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party.