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Ten people are killed and 39 others are injured in a collision between a bus and three other vehicles on a highway near Mersin, Turkey.
2024-05-26

Guinea-Bissau's capital Bissau experiences a major blackout after Turkish energy firm Karpowership suspends the supply of electricity to the city over an unpaid bill of at least US$15m. The Guinea-Bissauan government says that the outstanding amount will be paid within 15 days.
2023-10-18

Forty-one people are killed and eleven more are injured by an explosion at a coal mine in Amasra, Bartın Province, Turkey.
2022-10-14

A police officer is killed and another injured during a shooting and bomb attack near a police station in Mersin, Turkey. Both the attackers are killed.
2022-09-26

Israel announces the arrest of eight alleged Iranian spies for organizing a plot to kill an Israeli businessman in Istanbul in retaliation for the 2020 assassination of the chief of Iran's nuclear program, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, widely regarded to be the work of the Israeli intelligence agency, Mossad. Turkish intelligence shared with the Mossad apparently contributed to the arrests, and several Turkish operatives were among those arrested.
2022-02-11

The Bahrain News Agency publishes an official list of the demands from Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt towards Qatar. Turkey says the demands on Qatar are unlawful.
2017-06-25

Artillery shelling and drone attacks by the U.S.-led coalition strike Islamic State positions in Syria, according to Turkish authorities, killing 63 militants and destroying multiple rocket launcher and gun positions.
2016-05-2

Simultaneous explosions occur at local offices of the pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party headquarters in the southern Turkish cities of Adana and Mersin.
2015-05-18

Turkish jets bomb Kurdish PKK positions in south-east Turkey.
2014-10-14

At least eight people are killed by a bomb attack in the city of Gaziantep, Turkey.
2012-08-20