Izmir

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  Hundreds Evacuated Amid Raging Forest Fire In Turkey: Report

  Firefighters were battling a strong forest fire in Turkey's Aegean city of Izmir for a third day on Saturday, AFP reporters said, with hundreds more people evacuated overnight.

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  Tornado Throws Cars Into Air, Rips Apart Buildings

  A tornado ripped through a port area in Turkey's western coastal province of Izmir overnight, flinging vehicles into the air, damaging buildings, toppling a crane and leaving 16 people injured, Turkish officials said on Friday.

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  Aegean Quake Count Rises To 115 As Search Continues In Turkey's Izmir

  Search and rescue efforts were concentrated on two buildings in Turkey's western city of Izmir as the death count from Friday's earthquake in the Aegean Sea crept up to 115, disaster authorities said early on Wednesday.

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  Earthquake Death Count Rises To 51 In Turkey

  Rescue workers were searching eight wrecked buildings in Izmir Sunday despite dwindling hope for survivors as the death count from a powerful magnitude earthquake which hit western Turkey rose to 51

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  Earthquake Of 6.3 Magnitude Shakes Buildings In Greece, Turkey

  A powerful 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck the western coast of Turkey and the Greek island of Lesbos on Monday, rattling buildings from the Aegean Turkish province of Izmir to Greece's capital of Athens.

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  2 Killed In Car Bombing In Turkish City; 2 Attackers Dead

  A car bomb struck near a courthouse in the western Turkish city of Izmir Thursday that was followed by a shootout between three of the assailants and police. A police officer and a courthouse employee were killed while the gunfight left two of the assailants dead.

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  Turkey Detains 35 People in Raids on Supporters of Tayyip Erdogan Foe: Report

  Turkish police detained 35 people including senior bureaucrats and police officers in the western province of Izmir on Tuesday in an operation targeting supporters of President Tayyip Erdogan's foe, Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, media reported.

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  Pope Francis' Genocide Comments Spark Frustration Among Turks

  When Pope Francis became the first pontiff to publicly call the 1915 Armenian massacre a genocide this weekend, the reaction from Ankara was swift and irate: it summoned the Vatican ambassador for a dressing down and recalled its own envoy.

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  Somdev Devvarman conquers Delhi Open in style with crushing victory

  Playing his fourth Challenger level final, Somdev Devvarman needed 59 minutes to bag his third title and first since 2010 when he had triumphed in Izmir Turkey. His first title came in 2008 in Lexington, USA.

• GMR bids for Turkey’s Izmir airport

  Turkey got three bids for rights to operate passenger terminals at Izmir airport in the west of the country. One of the bidders is India's GMR Infrastructure. Limak and GMR operate Istanbul's second airport Sabiha Gokcen, to the east of the city. The winning bidder will improve the domestic facilities before operating the terminals until 20...

• Five Al-Qaida suspects detained in Turkey

  Police have detained five people, including three university students, suspected of providing financial and technical support to the Al-Qaida network in Afghanistan, police and reports said Friday.One of the suspects is also accused of preparing for a possible bomb attack, according to a police official in the Aegean coastal city of Izmir.The five ...

• Ronjan Sodhi wins gold in World Cup finals

  India's Ronjan Sodhi clinched a gold at the double trap gold in the ISSF World Cup finals in Izmir in Turkey on Monday. Sodhi shot a stunning 195 out of 200 to emerge victorious. The World no 5 had earlier scored 143 in the qualifying round.