by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jul 7, 2017 | Middle East
Turkish police arrested 29 suspected ISIS terrorists in raids in 20 different locations in the city of Istanbul, announced the state-run Anadolu news agency said on Friday. Twenty-two of the detainees are foreign nationals, while the rest are Turkish. It did not...
by Saeed Abdelrazek | Jun 18, 2017 | Middle East
Ankara – A spokesman for the Turkish Foreign Ministry slammed on Saturday a US consular warning of a possible terrorist attack in the city of Istanbul. Hussein Mufti Oglu condemned the warning as not being based on any tangible intelligence, but on the activity of...
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | May 23, 2017 | Middle East
Authorities in Turkey have partially destroyed Reina nightclub, the site of the New Year ISIS attack that the claimed the lives of 39 revelers, announced Turkey’s state-run news agency. The Anadolu Agency said most parts of the upscale Istanbul nightclub, on the...
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | May 21, 2017 | Middle East
Turkish police on Sunday killed in a clash two suspected ISIS members believed to have been planning an attack in the capital Ankara, the regional governor said. The two, in their 20s, were killed during a police operation on their residence in the Etimesgut district...
by Saeed Abdelrazek | May 10, 2017 | Middle East
Ankara – The General Prosecution in Turkey’s Istanbul city completed the indictment against the perpetrator of the attack against a nightclub in the city of New Year’s Eve that left 39 people dead and 69 wounded. Prosecutors have demanded 40 life sentences and 2,397...
