Turkish security forces on Thursday detained a female militant member of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) at Istanbul airport on suspicion of planning an attack in the city, the state-run Anadolu news agency said. The woman, identified as Ebru Firat, was detained following a tip-off after she flew into the ...
Berlin said Thursday that Ankara will allow German lawmakers to visit a NATO airbase near Syria after refusing access amid a months-long row over Germany recognizing the World War I-era massacre of Armenians as “genocide”. “I welcome the fact the Turkish government has now approved the plans for a visit ...