The Turkish Airlines plane was forced to make an emergency landing due to the suspicious name of the Wi-Fi network: "Bomb on board." According to Reuters, when passengers noticed the name of the network, they started to panic. The plane flew from the capital of Kenya Nairobi to Turkish Istanbul and made ...
The Turkish government offered $ 15 million to former US national security adviser Michael Flynn for help in extraditing Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen from the United States to Turkey. It is his Turkish government that considers the organizer of the attempted putsch in Turkey in the summer of 2016, since ...
American diplomatic missions in Turkey and Turkish diplomatic missions in the United States have limited mutual issuance of visas after the detention of an employee of the American consulate in Istanbul, which was another signal of the deterioration of diplomatic relations of NATO allies, writes Reuters. Last week, an employee of the American diplomatic mission in ...
Turkish archaeologists have discovered the alleged burial site of the remains of Nicholas the Ugodnik. They could have been left in the basement of the Church of St. Nicholas in the city of Demre in the southwestern province of Antalya, said Cemil Karabayram, head of the monument protection department of the Antalya provincial administration. “The temple is in the dungeon of the church...
In Turkey, a Russian citizen was detained who was planning to attack a US military aircraft using an unmanned aerial vehicle. Several Turkish media outlets, including the Haberturk and Hurriyet newspapers, are reporting this, Voice of America reports. According to press reports, the detainee is an adherent of the extremist ...
Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov was attacked in Ankara. The assassination attempt took place when the ambassador took part in the opening of a photo exhibition at the center for contemporary art, CNN Turk TV channel reports. The Russian Foreign Ministry confirmed that the ambassador was shot and died. Turkish TV channel NTV reports that besides ...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that the military coup attempt failed, the revolt in the ranks of the Turkish army was suppressed. According to the latest data, more than 750 people were arrested, 42 were killed and about a thousand injured during the confrontation, CNN reports. Among the dead are 17 police officers, reports the state ...
Russian citizens may have different attitudes towards the annexation of Crimea, support for the separatists of Donbass, or the participation of Russian aerospace forces in the campaign against Islamists in the Middle East, but some of the consequences of the Kremlin's "extremely tough" foreign policy and the cooling of relations with the West, Russians, accustomed from ...
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexei Meshkov said that Turkey should pay compensation to Moscow for the downed Su-24 military aircraft, and not insist on the legality of its actions. The Russian front-line bomber Su-24 was shot down by Turkish fighters in late November. The incident led to ...
Turkey is looking for suppliers of gas and oil that would allow it to completely abandon Russian gas. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced the search for alternative suppliers on the air of the local AFP TV channel, according to the Yahoo news portal. The head of Turkey noted that Russia has not yet ...