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The Netherlands-flagged dredger "Vox Maxima" collides with the stationary bunker vessel "Marine Honour" in Pasir Panjang Terminal, Singapore, causing an oil spill that spreads across several Southern Islands alongside the beaches in East Coast Park. Sentosa announce a temporary suspension of any water activities while their beaches remain open.
2024-06-14

Turkey reports a record for the second consecutive day of 68,413 new cases of COVID-19.
2022-01-6

Turkey reports a record 44,756 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 3.44 million.
2021-04-3

The Netherlands reports a record 11,214 new cases in the past 24 hours.
2020-12-16

Turkey's Ministry of Health reports that the country's COVID-19 death toll stands at 21, with 947 confirmed cases.
2020-03-21

Bulgarian customs agents seize 191 kg of heroin in transit for Belgium and the Netherlands at the border with Turkey. The drugs, with a street value of €6 million, were hidden under tile glue and detected by a sniffer dog.
2018-05-25

Turkey bans the Dutch ambassador, Cornelis Van Rij, from returning to the Embassy of the Netherlands in Ankara, and closes its airspace to Dutch diplomats in response to a Dutch ban on Turkish ministers speaking at pro-Erdoğan rallies.
2017-03-13

Ebru Umar, a Dutch journalist of Turkish descent, is arrested in Kuşadası, Turkey, for tweets deemed critical of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. This comes as a political storm erupted this week over reports that the Turkish consulate asked Turkish organizations in the Netherlands to forward emails and social media posts which insult Erdoğan or Turkey.
2016-04-24

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

Dutch football club HFC Haarlem, national champion in 1946, is declared bankrupt, becoming the first Dutch professional club to be disestablished since FC Wageningen and VCV Zeeland in 1992.
2010-01-25