Israeli commandos have attacked a flotilla of aid-carrying ships off the coast of the Gaza Strip, killing up to 19 people on board.
Dozens of others were injured when troops raided the convoy of six ships, dubbed the Freedom Flotilla, early on Monday.
Israel said activists on board attacked its commandos as they boarded the ships, while [...]
The biggest attempt by international aid groups to break the Israeli siege on the Gaza Strip has gotten underway.
Nine ships under the banner, Freedom Flotilla, began their journey to Gaza on Saturday, despite warnings from Israel that they will be stopped for “breaching Israeli law”.
The vessels are carrying 5,000 tonnes of reconstruction materials, [...]
Turkish fighter jets have bombed dozens of Kurdish separatist targets in northern Iraq, la ocal television has reported.
Some 20 warplanes hit around 50 positions of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), in the ZAP-Khakurk region on Thursday, Turkish broadcaster NTV said.
The army has not yet confirmed the raid and there was no immediate news of casualties.
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Iran has signed an agreement brokered by Brazil to ship low-enriched uranium to Turkey in exchange for nuclear fuel for its power plant, according to official media.
The deal agreed on Monday would oblige Iran to send Turkey 1.2 tonnes of uranium under the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Turkey would give Iran 120kg [...]
Armenians have marked the 95th anniversary of the mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks during World War One.
Flowers were laid by thousands of people at a monument to the victims in Yerevan, the capital, on Saturday.
Turkey denies that the deaths constitute genocide, saying that the toll has been inflated and those killed were victims [...]
Hundreds of villagers in eastern Turkey have spent the night sleeping outside after their homes were destroyed in a 6.0-magnitude earthquake.
The quake that struck Elazig province on Monday left 57 people dead, destroyed houses and triggered widespread panic.
Authorities have called off search operations, saying that no one remains under the rubble.
But many villagers in the [...]
An earthquake of 6.0 magnitude has rocked eastern Turkey, killing at least 57 people, and injuring 100 others.
The quake struck at 04:32am local time (02:32 GMT) on Monday, centred on the village of Basyurt in Elazig province, about 550km east of Ankara, the country’s capital, and caught many people in their sleep.
The quake affected six [...]
Turkey has recalled its ambassador from the US and condemned a Washington panel’s move to declare the killing of Armenians by Ottoman forces in the first world war a “genocide”.
“We condemn this resolution which accuses the Turkish nation of a crime it has not committed,” Ankara said in a statement on Thursday.
“Following this development, our [...]