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James Le Mesurier, the British co-founder of the White Helmets, a volunteer civil defence organisation in Syria, is found dead near his home in Istanbul, Turkey. The cause of death is not known.
2019-11-11

Voters in Turkey go to the polls for a presidential and parliamentary election.
2018-06-24

Fifteen members of Turkey's Republican People's Party quit and join the İyi Party, allowing the İyi Party to satisfy eligibility requirements such as having 20 lawmakers in Parliament for upcoming elections. Party leader Meral Akşener, who defected from the Nationalist Movement Party, will run against incumbent Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for the presidency.
2018-04-22

Turkey announces it is to send a drilling boat to disputed waters claimed by both Cyprus and Northern Cyprus.
2018-03-22

CHP MP Öztürk Yılmaz says Turkey has expressed its readiness to work with president Assad of Syria.
2016-12-26

NATO, during a two-day meeting, considers request from Turkey and Greece to monitor migrant transit in the Aegean Sea and to combat human traffickers squeezing refugees onto unsafe boats.
2016-02-10

Russian President Vladimir Putin signs a decree imposing economic sanctions on Turkey. The sanctions include a ban on charter flights from Russia to Turkey, that Russian tour operators should stop selling trips to Turkey, and that imports of some Turkish products are to be halted. All work visas for Turkish citizens are cancelled.
2015-11-28

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

Turkey seizes a Syrian ship possibly carrying weapons to the Syrian Army, as the 2011 Syrian uprising continues.
2011-09-24

Philip Gordon, the Obama administration's top diplomat on European affairs warns Turkey that it must demonstrate its commitment to NATO, Europe and the United States after its opposition to sanctions against Iran’s nuclear program and rhetoric against Israel after the Gaza flotilla raid.
2010-06-28