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Business Insider
April 15, 2018
Greek officials announced on Thursday that a Hellenic Air Force Mirage 2000-5 fighter jet crashed in the Aegean Sea, near the island of Skyros. The pilot, identified by the HAF as 33-year-old Capt. Giorgos Baltadoros, was returning from an aerial policing mission where he intercepted two Turkish Air Force F-16s.
Anadolu Agency
April 14, 2018
While Turkey's Disaster and Emergency Management Agency (AFAD) and the Turkish Red Crescent reach all villages of the region, Turkish soldiers are busily eliminating landmines planted in the region. Speaking to Anadolu Agency, local civilians spoke about security practices at the control points.
Daily Sabah
April 14, 2018
The Turkish army has begun to provide health services to local people in rural areas of Afrin province in northwestern Syria, which was recently cleared of PKK-affiliated terrorists groups in Turkey's Operation Olive Branch. Since the hospitals in the area are not functioning, Turkish soldiers establishedÃâà...
Daily Sabah
April 14, 2018
The Turkish government has been mobilizing all state and non-state institutions to pour in humanitarian aid and development projects for the country. Kalın said the military training base is only complementary to Turkey's humanitarian work in Somalia. In a decades-long, failed state where most developedÃâà...
South China Morning Post
April 14, 2018
A Turkish court on Friday sentenced 21 people – including former top military officers – to life in prison over the forced removal of an Islamic-oriented government in 1997. Another 68 defendants were acquitted in the trial against scores of people who were accused of taking part in the campaign that was ledÃâà...
Kathimerini
April 13, 2018
The death of a Greek fighter jet pilot on Thursday whose Mirage 2000-5 crashed into the sea north of the central Aegean island of Skyros after returning from a mission to intercept Turkish jets is a grim reminder of the deadly tally incurred by the Hellenic Air Force in the last few decades. According toÃâà...
New York Times
April 13, 2018
Close encounters between Greek and Turkish aircraft are common in the Aegean, which is flanked by Greece to the west and Turkey to the east, where the traditional foes have engaged in lingering territorial disputes, though such episodes are rare. Air patrols in the Aegean and interceptions of TurkishÃâà...
TRT World
April 7, 2018
Turkish military has set up its ninth observation post in Syria's northwestern province of Idlib, the military announced on its Twitter account on Saturday. The new observation post is located 88 kms from the Turkey-Syria border, Anadolu Agency reported. It said the 100-vehicle military convoy was on its wayÃâà...
Daily Sabah
April 4, 2018
During peace talks in the Kazakh capital, the three guarantor countries, Turkey, Iran and Russia, had agreed to establish de-escalation zones in Idlib and parts of Aleppo, Latakia and Hama provinces. On Oct. 12, 2017, the Turkish military started to cross into the region to establish observation points toÃâà...
TASS
April 4, 2018
Following his talks with Erdogan, Putin commented on the decision to speed up the delivery of the S-300 systems to Turkey, saying that it was being done "at the request of our Turkish partners and friends." Besides, in Putin's words, there are neither military nor political restrictions for the joint production ofÃâà...
Hurriyet Daily News
April 4, 2018
Under the previously struck Astana agreement, Turkey is gradually establishing 12 “observation points” from Idlib's north to south. Located in northwestern Syria on the Turkish border, Idlib has faced intense attacks by the Bashar al-Assad regime after a civil war broke out in 2011. Idlib has been outside theÃâà...
Newsweek
April 4, 2018
U.S. Military Plans to Leave Syria Complicated by Soldiers' Deaths and Threats From Turkey ... Neither the U.S. nor Turkey have directly threatened to attack one another's forces, but Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag warned Friday that those "who enter into cooperation and solidarity againstÃâà...
Anadolu Agency
April 3, 2018
On Jan. 20, Turkey launched Operation Olive Branch with the aim of eliminating YPG/PKK and Daesh terrorists from Afrin. On March 18, the 58th day of the operation, Turkish troops and the FSA members announced that the city had been liberated. Since the operation began, more than 3,800 terrorists whoÃâà...
Ahval
April 1, 2018
Relations with the Iraqi central government, however, have been frayed by Turkey's continuing presence in Bashiqa, east of Mosul, where the Turkish military has established a base during the fight against the Islamic State. The Turkish government has decided to keep the base in commission for anotherÃâà...
ABC News
March 5, 2018
Parents of the arrested Greek soldiers, at center, arrive at the courthouse in Edirne, Turkey, Monday, March 5, 2018. The lawyers for two Greek soldiers arrested in Turkey have formally requested their release from custody. The two were arrested last week for allegedly entering a Turkish military zone andÃâà...
New York Times
March 4, 2018
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Dozens of pro-Syrian government fighters were killed in an assault by Turkish warplanes on the northwestern Syrian region of Afrin on Saturday, according to a local journalist and a militia spokesman. Fighting has intensified in the region in the past few days, as Turkey has sentÃâà...
Voice of America
February 26, 2018
Turkey's offensive against a Kurdish militia in Syria shows the growing expertise of Turkish arms manufacturers. In recent years, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has sought to reduce his country's dependency on imported arms. Erdogan spoke recently about the military operation in the Afrin areaÃâà...
Newsweek
February 23, 2018
Turkey and the insurgent Free Syrian Army continued to exchange fire with the YPG and pro-Syrian government forces, and the Turkish military bombed a Kurdish convoy it said was full of fighters joining the battle for Afrin. Nevertheless, the YPG and Syrian government claimed the convoy was providingÃâà...
Voice of America
February 14, 2018
Turkey's military incursion into Syria against a Kurdish militia has received overwhelming support, according to a new Turkish opinion poll. The poll conducted by A&G found Operation Olive Branch, the name of the military operation, had 90 percent support among the Turkish population. President RecepÃâà...
Haaretz
February 10, 2018
A Turkish military helicopter has been shot down in Syria during an operation against US-backed Kurdish forces, according to Turkey's President, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. "One of our helicopters was downed just recently," Erdogan said speaking to members of his AK Party (AKP) in Istanbul. "These thingsÃâà...
FRANCE 24
December 31, 1999
The visit by Syrian Kurdish representatives to the French presidential palace on Thursday was watched closely by the Turkish government who were anything but happy. A map purportedly showing French military positions in Syria published by Turkey's state-run Anadolu news agency on its website FridayÃâà...
CNN
December 31, 1999
Washington (CNN) Turkey's military incursion against Kurdish groups in Afrin, Syria, has helped bring US-backed ground offensives targeting ISIS to a near halt, multiple US officials tell CNN, putting the military campaign against the terror group at risk, an effort seen as one of the Trump administration'sÃâà...
