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Greek patrol boats rescue nearly 80 migrants in the eastern Aegean Sea who were trying to cross from Turkey in inflatable dinghies in two separate incidents.
2023-08-21

Turkey administers a single-day record of 1.4 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccines.
2021-06-15

A car bomb in Turkish-controlled Suluk, Tell Abyad District, Raqqa Governorate, kills five people and wounds others. Turkey's defense ministry says the attack killed eight civilians and was by the PKK-YPG group.
2019-12-23

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi rejects Turkey's claim that Turkish forces must be included in an operation to retake the militant-held city of Mosul.
2016-10-12

A retaining wall of a soccer field collapses during a match in the Ugur Sports Facility in Şırnak Province, Turkey, killing 7 people and injuring 3 others.
2013-01-27

A ceasefire to military operations in the 2011–2012 Syrian uprising comes into effect.
2012-04-12

Ahmet Davutoğlu, the Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs, says Turkey's doors were “open to all Syrians who want to flee from oppression.”
2012-02-6

In the wake of recent terrorist attacks in southern Turkey, up to 10,000 soldiers of the Turkish Army advance into northern Iraq, pursuing Kurdish separatist PKK militants.
2011-10-20

A Turkish court jails three journalists associated with a dissident website pending trials on being part of the Ergenekon organisation allegedly plotting to overthrow the Government of Turkey. [http:--www.mercurynews.com-news-ci_17420552?nclick_check=1 (AP via "San Jose Mercury")]date=August 2019
2011-02-18

Cypriot authorities prevent any activists from leaving the island to join the flotilla, while Turkey urges Israel to treat the convoy as humanitarian aid.
2010-05-28