Turkey’s former Chief of General Staff Gen. İsmail Hakkı Karadayı has died in hospital from cancer and multi-organ failure. He was aged 88. The general is best known for orchestrating a non-violent military coup in 1997 that led to the fall of a coalition government led by Islamist Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan of the Refah […]
More than 20 Turkish soldiers have been killed in an air strike by Syrian government forces on Thursday night. The news was confirmed by Rahmi Doğan, the Governor of Hatay, whose province borders Syria’s Idlib region. Governor Doğan added that there were also a number of injured troops, several seriously, who had been brought across […]
Turkish troops are on their way to North Africa where they will provide support to the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) in Tripoli. The development comes three days after the Turkish Grand National Assembly (TBMM) approved a mandate for the mission following a formal request from the GNA for military support from Turkey. On […]
A military helicopter crashed shortly after taking off from its base in Şırnak, southeast Turkey, killing everyone on board. Among the 13 victims was Lt. Col. Songül Yakut, 41, the country’s first female commander, and Major Gen. Aydoğan Aydın, who had played a leading role in combating terror group the PKK. The crash is […]
Efforts by a small faction of the Turkish military to topple the AKP government have failed. At least 194 people were killed in the attempted coup, which started on Friday evening when tanks and troops took up positions over Istanbul’s two Bosphorus bridges and at Istanbul Atatürk Airport. How events unfolded Soon after, troops raided […]
