Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Veysi Kaynak told a national television outlet that the yet-unnamed jihadi responsible for killing dozens at Istanbul’s Reina nightclub on New Year’s Eve is likely a member of the Uighur Muslim ethnic minority, which makes its home in China and central Asia.
Turkey ended a turbulent 2016 with a terrorist attack targeting the heart of Istanbul’s tourist industry, leaving the neighborhood with closed businesses and empty streets.
Turkey said Thursday it had the right to close a key air base used by the US-led coalition to strike jihadists in Syria, as tensions mount between NATO allies Ankara and Washington.
An explosion wounded at least three people in the Turkish coastal city of Izmir on Thursday, according to local media reports.
Elite Turkish police arrested several people Thursday during fresh raids over the nightclub attack that killed 39, as authorities tightened Turkey’s borders to prevent the fugitive killer from escaping.
Turkey, a member of the international coalition against the Islamic State, requested air support when its air force came under fire, but the U.S.-led alliance did not carry out strikes and provided a “visible show of force” instead, according to the Pentagon.
The body of the Turkish policeman who shouted “Allahu Akbar” after shooting and killing the Russian ambassador to Turkey last month remains unclaimed. His family has refused to accept his remains, the state-run Anadolu Agency has learned from judicial sources.
The Turkish Chess Federation announced on Tuesday that it has initiated legal proceedings against Muslim cleric Ahmet Mahmut Unlu, a televangelist who denounced chess as a supremely sinful activity.
An opinion column in Yeni Şafak, a pro-Erdogan Turkish newspaper, accuses the United States of “leading” the Islamic State, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), and the alleged terrorist group run by Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen.
Turkey said Wednesday it had identified the gunman behind the New Year’s attack on an elite Istanbul nightclub that killed 39, as efforts intensified to catch the suspected jihadist before he strikes again.
Turkish authorities appear to know who the prime suspect in the Istanbul nightclub massacre is, releasing both photographs and biographical information, although they seem curiously reluctant to state his name.
Lindsay Lohan penned a poem about the Syrian refugee crisis Tuesday in which she wrote of a desire to help fix “idle ISIS minds.”
A group of young Turkish Muslim nationalists protested Christmas and New Year’s celebrations in Turkey last week by putting a gun to the head of a man dressed as Santa Claus during a demonstration in the country’s western province Aydin.
Turkish police have reportedly detained several people, including an employee of the anti-Islamist newspaper Cumhuriyet, for participating in an assembly against the Islamic State and calling for secularism in light of the jihadist attack on Reina nightclub in Istanbul.
On Tuesday’s Breitbart News Daily, SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam and Breitbart News National Security editor Dr. Sebastian Gorka discussed the New Year’s Eve slaughter at the Reina nightclub in Istanbul.
Turkish authorities on Tuesday intensified efforts to identify and detain a suspected jihadist who killed 39 people at an Istanbul nightclub, and who reportedly fought in Syria alongside Islamic State jihadists.
With freedom of expression increasingly under threat by authoritarian governments worldwide, 2016 yielded a crop of loud, defiant tunes from an assortment of envelope-pushers, political dissidents, and would-be pop icons.
The Islamic State has formally taken responsibility for the slaughter at the Reina nightclub in Istanbul, issuing an unusually direct official statement that hailed the still-at-large gunman as a “heroic soldier of the caliphate.”
Shot in the arm and slumped behind a table, Francois al-Asmar played dead as the gunman walked through the exclusive Istanbul nightclub shooting the wounded as they lay on the ground.
Contents: Istanbul Turkey New Year’s terror attack compared to Paris and Orlando attacks; Terror attacks expose deep divisions in Turkey’s society
Some Arab social media users expressed sorrow over Saturday’s blast in Istanbul, in which Saudi, Lebanese and Israeli citizens were hurt, while others said it was a punishment for those who celebrated a Christian festival in an “immoral” nightclub.
The father of the Israeli killed in the New Year’s Eve attack in Istanbul said on Sunday that he had tried to stop his 18-year-old daughter from traveling to Turkey.
One of the revelers at the Istanbul night club which came under attack during New Year celebrations early Sunday described the chaos and panic as people tried to escape a gunman intent on killing as many as possible.
The UN Security Council on Saturday unanimously approved a resolution supporting a Russian-Turkish peace initiative for Syria, including an ongoing ceasefire and talks next month in Kazakhstan.
An Israeli woman has been identified as one of the 39 victims of the shooting attack in an Istanbul nightclub.
CCTV footage shows that the assailant in a nightclub shooting in Istanbul wore a Santa Claus hat for part of the attack, which unfolded despite increased security measures. The footage, obtained by AP from Haberturk newspaper, shows the male assailant dressed in black and carrying a backpack as he shoots down a police officer outside the Reina nightclub.
On Friday’s broadcast of PBS’ “Washington Week,” Vox Deputy Managing Editor and Foreign Editor Yochi Dreazen said Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is a leader who “doesn’t care much” for democracy, “destroyed” a vibrant press, and is “exactly the kind of
The Wall Street Journal revealed on Saturday that Turkish authorities detained one of the newspaper’s reporters for two-and-a-half days this past week without allowing him access to legal representation or a list of accusations against him.
The headlines on Day One of the latest Syrian ceasefire, this time brokered by Russia, Turkey, and Iran without U.S. or U.N. involvement, is that it’s holding together despite “minor violations” — such as 20 air raids by the Syrian government against rebel positions near Idlib and ground action supported by attack helicopters in the suburbs of Damascus.
Contents: Russia and Turkey announce a new ceasefire in Syria; Damascus Syria is without water after reservoirs were poisoned
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan claims he has proof the U.S. and its allies gave material support to the Islamic State, but his contention repeated most loudly and insistently is that America armed the Kurdish militia in Syria, which Turkey considers an offshoot of the Kurdish separatists it has been battling for decades.
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on Thursday that a ceasefire between the Syrian government and opposition forces, brokered and guaranteed by Russia and Turkey, would go into effect at midnight.
Turkey’s Foreign Minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, formally announced the much-heralded Russian-Turkish-Iranian peace plan for Syria on Wednesday, with Russia claiming it has support from the United Nations. However, Turkey’s insistence that dictator Bashar Assad cannot be part of Syria’s long-term future may not sit well with Moscow.
A Turkish court has put a broadcast ban on reporting of the investigation into last week’s murder of the Russian ambassador to Ankara Andrei Karlov, state media said on Tuesday.
2016 was a difficult year in many parts of the world for those who sought to be different under authoritarian regimes. Whether Communists, Islamists, or the religious intolerance of their own families, these individuals took a stand and, in some cases, paid the ultimate price to advocate for freedom.
At a press conference in Ankara Tuesday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan claimed he has “confirmed evidence” that the U.S.-led coalition in the Middle East has given support to the Islamic State.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday it viewed a U.S. decision to ease restrictions on weapons supplies to Syrian rebels as a “hostile act” which threatened the safety of Russian warplanes and military personnel, the RIA news agency reported.
The Turkish army on Monday accused Islamic State (IS) jihadists of killing at least 30 civilians seeking to flee the flash-point Syrian town of Al-Bab, which Ankara and its rebel allies have been seeking to capture for weeks.
Şenol Buran, the cook in charge of the cafeteria at Turkish newspaper Cumhuriyet, was arrested this week after telling a police officer he would refuse to serve tea to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan if he ever visited the newspaper’s offices.
The on-camera murder of Russian ambassador Andrey Karlov by 22-year-old Turkish police officer Mevlut Mert Altintas raised some disturbing questions about corruption and security in Turkey.
