Turkish Officials

Israeli troops shot and killed a Turkish-American woman who had been taking part in a protest against settlement expansion in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Friday, Palestinian and Turkish officials said.

Turkish, Jordanian and Iraqi officials said on Sunday that Iran gave wide notice days before its drone and missile attack on Israel, but U.S. officials said Tehran did not warn Washington and that it was aiming to cause significant damage.

Turkish, Jordanian and Iraqi officials said on Sunday Iran gave wide notice days before Saturday's drone and missile attack on Israel allowing mass casualties and rampant escalation to be averted, but a U.S. official denied this.

Twenty-one migrants including five children drowned after a boat capsized off the Turkish coast, local officials said on Friday.

Turkish police on Tuesday shot dead a man and a woman belonging to a leftist "terrorist" organisation who attacked a security checkpoint outside Istanbul's main courthouse, injuring six people, officials said.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has launched a negotiation process with Hamas seeking the release of Israeli hostages who were kidnapped by the Palestinian militant group, an official source told AFP on Wednesday.

A truck crashed on a crowd of mourners Saturday in the southeastern Turkish province of Kahramanmaras killing five people and injuring 25, officials said.

Nurdagi was close to the epicentre of the quake and with the death count in Turkey and Syria now above 21,000, officials said the town and surrounding villages would find "significant" numbers of fatalities before the search was called off.

Turkish Airlines plane flying from Istanbul to Singapore made an emergency landing at the Kolkata airport on Thursday after a 69-year-old passenger fell seriously ill mid-air, an official said here.

The banned Popular Front of India (PFI) has been maintaining close ties with a radical Turkish group accused of supplying arms to Al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorists in Syria and even two PFI leaders were hosted by the terror group, officials said today.

Russia and Ukraine met UN and Turkish officials on Wednesday in a bid to break a months-long impasse over grain exports that has seen food prices soar and millions face hunger.

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman will visit Turkey next week, a Turkish official said Friday, as Ankara and Riyadh heal a bitter rift following the 2018 murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul.

Russian and Ukrainian negotiators began face-to-face talks in Istanbul on Tuesday, the official Turkish news agency said, with host Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan urging them to "put an end to this tragedy".

Russia and Ukraine diplomats have begun talks in the southern Turkish resort of Antalya and are also joined by Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday sued a nationalist rival for comparing him to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, official media reported.

Israeli troops shot and killed a Turkish-American woman who had been taking part in a protest against settlement expansion in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Friday, Palestinian and Turkish officials said.

Turkish, Jordanian and Iraqi officials said on Sunday that Iran gave wide notice days before its drone and missile attack on Israel, but U.S. officials said Tehran did not warn Washington and that it was aiming to cause significant damage.

Turkish, Jordanian and Iraqi officials said on Sunday Iran gave wide notice days before Saturday's drone and missile attack on Israel allowing mass casualties and rampant escalation to be averted, but a U.S. official denied this.

Twenty-one migrants including five children drowned after a boat capsized off the Turkish coast, local officials said on Friday.

Turkish police on Tuesday shot dead a man and a woman belonging to a leftist "terrorist" organisation who attacked a security checkpoint outside Istanbul's main courthouse, injuring six people, officials said.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has launched a negotiation process with Hamas seeking the release of Israeli hostages who were kidnapped by the Palestinian militant group, an official source told AFP on Wednesday.

A truck crashed on a crowd of mourners Saturday in the southeastern Turkish province of Kahramanmaras killing five people and injuring 25, officials said.

Nurdagi was close to the epicentre of the quake and with the death count in Turkey and Syria now above 21,000, officials said the town and surrounding villages would find "significant" numbers of fatalities before the search was called off.

Turkish Airlines plane flying from Istanbul to Singapore made an emergency landing at the Kolkata airport on Thursday after a 69-year-old passenger fell seriously ill mid-air, an official said here.

The banned Popular Front of India (PFI) has been maintaining close ties with a radical Turkish group accused of supplying arms to Al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorists in Syria and even two PFI leaders were hosted by the terror group, officials said today.

Russia and Ukraine met UN and Turkish officials on Wednesday in a bid to break a months-long impasse over grain exports that has seen food prices soar and millions face hunger.

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman will visit Turkey next week, a Turkish official said Friday, as Ankara and Riyadh heal a bitter rift following the 2018 murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul.

Russian and Ukrainian negotiators began face-to-face talks in Istanbul on Tuesday, the official Turkish news agency said, with host Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan urging them to "put an end to this tragedy".

Russia and Ukraine diplomats have begun talks in the southern Turkish resort of Antalya and are also joined by Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday sued a nationalist rival for comparing him to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, official media reported.