Three people were wounded when a car bomb in Turkey’s southeastern province of Batman targeted a gendarmerie station on Friday, police and hospital sources said. Two soldiers and one civilian were wounded by the blast, at a checkpoint in front of the station in Batman’s Bekirhan district, the sources said. ...
Iraqi Kurdistan’s planned independence referendum is a “terrible mistake” toward achieving regional stability, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said in a statement Friday. Kurdish media reported this week that the referendum would be held on September 25. “The decision to hold a referendum on independence [Kurdish autonomy in Iraq] is a ...
