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Cyprus says it has dismantled a criminal human smuggling ring responsible for transporting migrants on boats from Lebanon, Syria and Turkey.
2023-08-23

Six Turkish-backed National Front for Liberation militants are killed during a fight with the Syrian Democratic Forces and the Syrian Army in Aleppo.
2022-12-26

The Ukrainian and Russian delegations hold face-to-face peace talks in Turkey for the first time in two weeks.
2022-03-29

A 6.7 magnitude earthquake in the Aegean Sea near Greece and Turkey kills two people and injures more than 520 others.
2017-07-21

Turkey declares a curfew in the town of Yüksekova on the border with Iran as Turkish forces prepare an offensive against the PKK.
2016-03-13

A huge explosion in the mostly Kurdish border town of Suruç, Turkey, targeting The Socialist Youth Associations Federation, kills at least 31 people and injures over 100. Preliminary evidence suggests an ISIS suicide attack.
2015-07-20

Turkish police crackdown on an anti-government demonstration in the town of Soma, firing tear gas and water cannon at thousands of protestors.
2014-05-16

Several trade unions in Turkey hold a one-day strike in response to the disaster.
2014-05-15

An explosion in a coal mine in the Turkish province of Zonguldak kills eight mine workers.
2013-01-7

The Anatolian Agency reports that two Turkish Army soldiers were killed in a roadside bomb explosion in Mardin Province near the Turkish border with Syria.
2010-08-8