Tag: Turkey

Turkey to shut border crossings with Syria: official

Turkey will close its border crossings with neighbouring strife-torn Syria on Wednesday until further notice, a Turkish official told AFP. "We have taken such a...

Syrian rebels occupy second border post: Turkish diplomat

Syrian rebel forces occupied a second border post with Turkey on Sunday, three days after taking control of the frontier crossing of Bab al-Hawa,...

Syria rebels control border post with Turkey: AFP

Syrian rebels were in full control of the Bab al-Hawa border post with Turkey after overrunning it in a fierce battle with Syrian troops,...

Turkey coup trial resumes without ailing defendants

Turkey’s landmark trial into the bloody 1980 coup resumed on Friday in the absence of the two defendants, whose old age and frail health...

Turkey to pick new missile defence system soon

Turkey is to pick a new long-range air defence missile system soon, as tension builds with neighbouring Syria, media and foreign diplomats said Friday. Companies...

Deadly Syria violence, Turkey sends missiles to border

Twin bombs exploded outside the Palace of Justice in Damascus on Thursday as deadly violence raged across the country and Turkey deployed missile batteries...

Turkey sends missile batteries to Syria border: reports

Turkey has sent missile batteries, tanks and troops to the border with Syria as a "security corridor", almost a week after the Syrian downing...

KMC administrator returns from Istanbul

KMC Administrator Muhammad Hussain Syed on Wednesday returned Karachi after four day visit to Istanbul, Turkey. Prominent industrialist Sardar Yasin Malik, Siddique Shaikh of...

Fire kills 13 in southeast Turkey prison mutiny

Thirteen prisoners died from smoke inhalation after inmates started a fire during a mutiny in a jail in southeastern Turkey, officials said Sunday. The...

KMC administrator departs for Istanbul

KMC Administrator Muhammad Hussain Syed on Saturday departed for Istanbul Turkey to attend an international symposium on Life Long Learning Culture & Vocational Educational...

Endgame in Afghanistan

The second in the series of Conferences titled ‘Heart of Asia’ was held in Kabul on 14th of June. The initial conference was held...

Beneath the coat

Istanbul: European Union diplomats worried over Turkey’s pro-Islam steps, report AFP (June 11). After the uprising in the Middle East, has not Turkey’s say...

Syria rebels quit besieged town of Al-Haffe: NGO

Syrian rebels withdrew on Wednesday from the besieged town of Al-Haffe and nearby villages that had been under intense shelling by regime forces for...

AEDB signs 56 MW wind project with Turkish Company

In order to boost exploitation of alternative and renewable energy sources, Pakistan and Turkey have signed financial closing documents for setting up of first...

Scheduled banks talk Turkey

Pakistan is considering to expanding the scope of its currency swap agreement with Turkey from central to the schedule banks level. This the central bank...

Turkey’s only ‘official’ 2020 bid: Rogge

Olympics chief Jacques Rogge on Thursday declared that Turkey is officially bidding for the right to host just one major sporting event in 2020...

Suicide bombing kills one policeman in Turkey

A suicide bomb squad killed a policeman and wounded more than a dozen people in central Turkey on Friday after driving into a police...