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Train derailment after rains in Turkey kills 24, injures 318
A passenger train derailed in northwestern Turkey, killing two dozen people and injuring more than 300 others, officials said Monday. Investigators believe that heavy rains caused the ground under the rails to collapse, causing Sunday's crash, Deputy Prime Minister Recep Akdag said. The train was heading to Istanbul from Edirne, on the border with Greece, […]
July 9, 2018 | By hromedia	| Reply More
Exiled Syrian doctors go back to work helping refugees in Turkey
Safa al-Hussein comes into the consultation room with her four-year-old daughter, Ahed, who has a leg injury she suffered during an attack on the northern Syrian city of Raqa. She is treated by a doctor and nurse, who are both Syrian like her. But this healthcare centre is hundreds of kilometres (miles) from their native […]
March 22, 2018 | By hromedia	| Reply More
Turkey jails man for life for Syrian mother, daughter murders
A Turkish court has sentenced a man to life in prison for murdering a Syrian opposition activist and her journalist daughter in a crime that shocked the exile community, state media said Wednesday. Aroubeh Barakat and her 22-year-old daughter Halla Barakat were found dead in their Istanbul apartment in September last year. Syrian national Ahmet […]
Heartbroken dad buries his twin children and wife died in Syria gas attack
Father devastated after his twin children and wife were killed in a suspected chemical attack in Syria wept over their graves as they were buried. Shocked and heartbroken Abdul Hamid Youssef consoled fellow mourners as he broke down in tears and crouched down next to their burial plots. He said he was devastated he lost […]
April 6, 2017 | By hromedia	| Reply More
Istanbul night club attacked during New Year party 39 killed, 70 wounded
Thirty-nine people, including many foreigners, were killed Sunday when a gunman went on a rampage at an exclusive nightclub in Istanbul where revellers were celebrating the New Year. As police launched a dragnet for the assailant, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the carnage sought to sow chaos and undermine peace, but Turkey would never bow […]
January 1, 2017 | By hromedia	| Reply More
Turkey jails Kurdish party leaders as attack kills 9
Turkey on Friday jailed the two co-leaders of the country's main pro-Kurdish party and several other MPs, in an unprecedented crackdown as a deadly bombing killed nine in the Kurdish-dominated southeast. A court in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir remanded in custody Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) co-leaders Selahattin Demirtas and Figen Yuksekdag after they were […]
November 4, 2016 | By hromedia	| Reply More
In Iraq, Nigeria and now Turkey, child bombers strike
Aug 23, – That was last Sunday. Less than a day earlier, Turkey was less fortunate: a teenage bomber detonated his suicide vest among dancing guests at a Turkish wedding party, officials say, killing 51 people, nearly half of them children themselves. The boy looked scared and younger than 16 when Iraqi police grabbed him […]
August 23, 2016 | By hromedia	| Reply More
Turkey seeks to identify child suicide bomber
Aug 22, – The attack late Saturday on a street wedding in the city of Gaziantep was latest in a devastating series of bombings in Turkey at a time when the country is riven by internal upheaval and shaken by the civil war in neighbouring Syria. Turkish authorities were on Monday scrambling to identify a […]
30 killed, 94 hurt in wedding attack in Turkey
Aug 21, – Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Simsek said the "barbaric" attack in the city of Gaziantep, near the border with Syria, on Saturday appeared to be a suicide bombing. Other officials said it could have been the carried out by either Kurdish militants or Islamic State group extremists. A bomb attack targeting an outdoor […]
Six people killed in PKK car bombing in Turkey's southeast- deputy PM
Aug 15, – Twenty-one people, some of the police officers, were wounded in the bombing on a busy road between the city of Diyarbakir, the region's largest, and the district of Bismil, Deputy Prime Ministers Numan Kurtulmus said. A car bomb killed six people including four police officers and a child outside a police station […]
December 3, 2016 | By hromedia	| Reply More