Tag: Turkish
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Kurdish militants claim responsibility for deadly attack on Turkish defense firm
A banned Kurdish militant group on Friday claimed responsibility for an attack on the headquarters of a key defense company in Ankara that killed at least five people. A statement from the military wing of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, PKK, said Wednesday’s attack on the premises of the aerospace and defense company TUSAS was carried…
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At least 3 dead after ‘terrorist attack’ on Turkish defense company
ISTANBUL — At least three people were killed and 14 injured in a “terrorist attack” at the headquarters of one of Turkey’s top defense companies on Wednesday, the country’s interior minister said. Condemning the attack on the Turkish Aerospace Industries (TUSAS) facility as “heinous,” Ali Yerlikaya wrote on X that two of the attackers had…
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Gulen, the powerful cleric accused of orchestrating a Turkish coup, dies
The U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, who built a powerful Islamic movement in Turkey and beyond but spent his later years mired in accusations of orchestrating an attempted coup against Turkish leader Tayyip Erdogan, has died. He was 83. Herkul, a website which publishes Gulen’s sermons, said on its X account that Gulen had died on…