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President Trump and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the start of the Nato summit in July. (Reuters)
AGENCY

Turkey-US: A timeline of plummeting relations

The two countries are in disagreement over the Syria conflict and over the fate of Turkish preacher Fethullah Gulen

  • Agency
3 min read
Tracy Morrison fooled the mink-and-manure set with her phoney American accent and claims of links to Hollywood, but her alleged scams wounded many people
KURDISTAN WORKERS PARTY

For exiled novelist, Turkey is ‘like 1930s Germany’

Released from prison in late December 2016, it took Asli Erdogan until last September to get her passport back from Turkish authorities

  • Michelle Fitzpatrick
4 min read
The DRC opposition failed at the 11th hour to unite behind presidential candidate Martin Fayulu (centre). (Junior Kannah/AFP)
EUROPEAN UNION

Turkey sacks 18 500 staff before expected end of coup emergency

The Official Gazette said 18 632 people had been sacked including 8 998 police officers over suspected links to terror organisations

  • Raziye Akkoc
3 min read
KURDISTAN WORKERS PARTY

Turkish warplanes bomb northern Iraq

Turkish warplanes bombed northern Iraq on Monday, the rebel Kurdistan Workers’ Party and an Iraqi Kurdish official said.

  • Staff Reporter
1 min read
KURDISTAN WORKERS PARTY

Turkey bombs Kurdish rebels in Iraq

Turkish warplanes bombed Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq this week, the Anatolia news agency reported on Friday, quoting an army spokesperson.

  • Staff Reporter
1 min read
KURDISTAN WORKERS PARTY

Turkish jets bomb Kurdish rebels in Iraq

Turkish planes on Tuesday bombed more than 20 Kurdish rebel targets both inside the country and in northern Iraq, the Turkish army said.

  • Staff Reporter
1 min read
ANKARA

Bush calls for quick end to Turkish Iraq operation

United States President George Bush urged Nato ally Turkey on Thursday to end its offensive against Kurdish PKK rebels in northern Iraq quickly, but Washington said it would not…

  • Kristin Roberts
  • Paul De Bendern
4 min read
ANATOLIAN

Istanbul factory blast kills 19

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.…

  • Thomas Grove
1 min read
ALQAEDA

Rice pushes ‘roadmap’ as Turkish troops enter Iraq

United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, on a visit overshadowed by a Turkish incursion into northern Iraq, called on Iraqi leaders on Tuesday to urgently implement a…

  • Arshad Mohammed
  • Shamal Aqrawi
4 min read
ABDULLAH IBRAHIM

Turkey bombs northern Iraq, woman killed

Turkish warplanes targeting Kurdish rebels bombed villages deep in northern Iraq on Sunday, killing one woman and forcing hundreds of people to flee their homes, local officials…

  • Sherko Raouf
3 min read
ABDULLAH OCALAN

Kurdish rebels free abducted Turkish soldiers

Eight Turkish soldiers, kidnapped last month in an ambush by Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants, were released in northern Iraq, a PKK official said on Sunday. The release…

  • Selcuk Gokoluk
3 min read
ALI BABACAN

Iraq conference looks at tensions on Turkey border

Turkey stepped up pressure on the United States to help curb attacks by Kurdish rebels from northern Iraq as a conference on Saturday of Iraq’s neighbours and major powers sought…

  • Sue Pleming
  • Emma Ross-Thomas
3 min read
ABDULLAH GUL

Turkey kills 34 Kurdish fighters in northern Iraq

Turkey has carried out air sorties and shelling against Kurdish positions inside northern Iraq. Reuters said Turkish war planes flew as deep as 20km into Iraqi territory and…

  • Staff Reporter
3 min read
ABDULLAH OCALAN

Rebels kill 12 Turk troops, PM calls crisis talks

Kurdish rebels killed at least 12 Turkish soldiers and wounded 16 others in an ambush on Sunday, prompting Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan to call crisis talks to consider a…

  • Staff Reporter
6 min read