Ankara- A would-be suicide bomber failed to blow up former Justice Minister Hikmet Sami Turk in an attempted assassination attempt in Ankara on Wednesday, the Anadolu news agency reported. The woman, Didem Akman, was arrested at the Bilkent University after a detonator failed to trigger explosives she had strapped to her body.
"There was an explosion one metre behind me," Turk said. "My bodyguards subdued the attacker."
A second suspected suicide bomber was later arrested outside the university.
Ankara - Turkey on Monday started its first-ever joint military training exercise with neighbouring Syria, the Turkish General Staff confirmed to the German Presse Agency dpa.
The small-scale training exercises focussed on border protection and will last until Wednesday, said a spokesman for the General Staff.
Ankara - A high-ranking police officer and a civilian were killed in Istanbul Monday in a shootout between police and three members of a left-wing group that began after a police raided in Turkey's largest city early Monday. Istanbul Governor Muammer Guler said the shootout started shortly after police raided an apartment block in the suburb of Bostanci on the Asian side of the city at about 5:30 am (0230 GMT).
Ankara - Seven police officers and a television cameraman were injured in Istanbul Monday in a shootout between police and three members of a left-wing group that began after police raided a number of houses in the Turkish city early Monday. Istanbul Governor Muammer Guler said the raids started at 5:30 am (0230 GMT) and the shootout in the suburb of Bostanci on the Asian side of the city was continuing some five hours later.
Guler said the far-left group was planning a "sensational operation".
In a raid on a house in the suburb of Bagcilar, police seized weapons, ammunition and bomb-making materials
Ankara - Turkey has reacted with unease to a statement released Friday night by US President Barack Obama where he described as a "great catastrophe" the deaths of up to 1.5 million ethnic Armenians in the dying days of the Ottoman Empire, CNN-Turk reported on Saturday. "There are parts of the statement that I don't agree with," President Abdullah Gul said on the sidelines of a conference in the Bulgarian capital Sofia.
Ankara - An investigation was launched Friday into the beating of a 14 year-old boy by a police officer during a pro- Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) protest in the eastern Turkish city of Hakkari, the Anadolu news agency reported.
Television footage showed a Special Operations Team police officer hitting the 14 year-old boy on the head a number of times with the but a semi-automatic rifle. Journalists covering Thursday's protest then went to help the boy who was taken to a local hospital.
Ankara- A would-be suicide bomber failed to blow up former Justice Minister Hikmet Sami Turk in an attempted assassination attempt in Ankara on Wednesday, the Anadolu news agency reported. The woman, Didem Akman, was arrested at the Bilkent University after a detonator failed to trigger explosives she had strapped to her body.
Ankara - Turkey on Monday started its first-ever joint military training exercise with neighbouring Syria, the Turkish General Staff confirmed to the German Presse Agency dpa.
Ankara - A high-ranking police officer and a civilian were killed in Istanbul Monday in a shootout between police and three members of a left-wing group that began after a police raided in Turkey's largest city early Monday. Istanbul Governor Muammer Guler said the shootout started shortly after police raided an apartment block in the suburb of Bostanci on the Asian side of the city at about 5:30 am (0230 GMT).
Ankara - Seven police officers and a television cameraman were injured in Istanbul Monday in a shootout between police and three members of a left-wing group that began after police raided a number of houses in the Turkish city early Monday. Istanbul Governor Muammer Guler said the raids started at 5:30 am (0230 GMT) and the shootout in the suburb of Bostanci on the Asian side of the city was continuing some five hours later.
Ankara - Turkey has reacted with unease to a statement released Friday night by US President Barack Obama where he described as a "great catastrophe" the deaths of up to 1.5 million ethnic Armenians in the dying days of the Ottoman Empire, CNN-Turk reported on Saturday. "There are parts of the statement that I don't agree with," President Abdullah Gul said on the sidelines of a conference in the Bulgarian capital Sofia.
Ankara - An investigation was launched Friday into the beating of a 14 year-old boy by a police officer during a pro- Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) protest in the eastern Turkish city of Hakkari, the Anadolu news agency reported.
