Getty Images Smoke rises as rescuers arrive at the scene An explosion has been reported outside the headquarters of an aviation company near Ankara, in an incident the authorities have labelled a terror attack. The country’s Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya posted on X: “Unfortunately, we have martyrs and injured people.” Initial images shown by the […]
By Daren Butler ISTANBUL (Reuters) -The U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, who built a powerful Islamic movement in Turkey and beyond but spent his later years mired in accusations of orchestrating an attempted coup against Turkish leader Tayyip Erdogan, has died. He was 83. Herkul, a website which publishes Gulen’s sermons, said on its X account […]
Mr. Gulen, who lived in self-imposed exile in the United States, was accused of plotting a failed coup against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey in 2016.
IMAGE SUPPLIED Necdet Seyitoğlu lived in the UK for 18 years before moving to Kenya A British national has told the BBC that he and several Turkish citizens were abducted in the Kenyan capital Nairobi by masked men on Friday, with four of the Turkish citizens still missing. Necdet Seyitoğlu, who lived in the UK […]
The airline said the pilot had lost consciousness during the flight, which was headed to Istanbul from Seattle.
