Sources: BBC
Turkey announces it will start supplying natural gas to Syria via the Arab Gas Pipeline to help Syria generate new electricity, while Qatar will also help with the project's financing. 2025-07-30
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reports that pro-Turkish factions have begun sectarian reprisal attacks killing at least three Kurdish civilians in Manbij, Aleppo Governorate, Syria, as well as burning and looting civilian homes. 2024-12-10
Turkey suspends all trade with Israel in response to their conduct in the war in Gaza and demands that humanitarian aid be allowed to enter the Gaza Strip uninterrupted, after previously suspending some exports to Israel in April. 2024-05-2
Turkish presidential candidate Muharrem İnce withdraws three days before the election. 2023-05-11
The United States House of Representatives votes 405 to 11 to officially recognize the Armenian Genocide as a genocide for the first time. Turkey condemns the resolution, describing it as "a meaningless political step", and that "its sole addressees are the Armenian lobby and anti-Turkey groups". 2019-10-29
Turkish authorities name a Turkish man with alleged ties to the Islamic State responsible for this weekend's suicide bombing in Istanbul. 2016-03-20
Ankara's Chief Prosecutor's office says it has "strong evidence" that an Islamic State group — based in Gaziantep, near the Syrian border — is behind the bombings at this month's Ankara peace rally that killed 102 people, as well as four previous attacks in Turkey since May that have mainly targeted supporters of a pro-Kurdish party. 2015-10-28
Human Rights Watch says unidentified armed men have been disabling boats carrying migrants and asylum seekers in the Aegean Sea traveling from Turkey toward the Greek islands. Witnesses have described eight incidents this month in which masked assailants intercepted and disabled the boats by damaging engines or fuel systems, and in the case of inflatable boats, attempting to puncture hulls. 2015-10-22
Voters in Turkey go to the polls for a referendum to amend the constitution. 2010-09-12
Israel rejects United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's proposal to create an international committee of inquiry into the raid on Gaza flotilla raid; committee members would include representatives from the United States, Turkey and Israel. 2010-06-6