Turkish Defense Minister Fikri Isik stressed Wednesday that cleansing the city of Mosul of the so-called ‘Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’ (ISIL) terrorist group has a great importance for Turkey and Iraq as well, pointing out that the presence of Turkish soldiers in Ba’shiqah is very important. In ...
A man suspected of trying to force his way into a Turkish police station in a city near the Syrian border was shot dead on Tuesday, local officials said. An officer was lightly wounded in the shootout at a security checkpoint outside the police headquarters in the southeastern city of ...