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They cared for thousands of wounded and infected soldiers until she returned home in 1857 as a heroine. [4] During the war around 6,000 soldiers died in the Selimiye Barracks, mostly as the result of a cholera epidemic. The dead were buried at a plot near the barracks, which later became the Haydarpaşa Cemetery. [5]
A building in Yüksekova, Hakkari Province, partly destroyed by tank shells from a Turkish operation in the 2016 Hakkari clashes [].. Turkish war crimes are violations of international criminal law (including war crimes, crimes against humanity and the crime of genocide) which the official armed and paramilitary forces of Turkey have committed or are accused of committing.
According to reports, Fadli was "a regular foot soldier" in ISIL and his brother committed a suicide bombing at an airport several months earlier. [21] [22] Fadli entered Turkey on January 5, 2016, and had been registered and fingerprinted as a refugee. His name had not set off security alerts. [21] [22]
His remarks were widely commented on both inside and outside Turkey. [76] His comments were pointedly directed at opposition leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu (who in fact is from Tunceli). Erdogan reminded his audience that Kılıçdaroğlu's party, the CHP, had been in power at the time of the massacre, then the only political party in Turkey. [12]
The U.S. Embassy to Turkey confirmed the assault on Monday and said the soldiers were now safe.
The Attack on protestors at the Turkish embassy in Washington, D.C. broke out on May 16, 2017, between Turkey's Police Counter Attack Team and a crowd of protesters, some of whom carried flags of a Kurdish political party. [1] According to Turkey, Turkish bodyguards were acting in self-defense and the protesters were tied to a terrorist group. [2]
The fire which tore through a 12-story hotel at a popular ski resort in the Bolu mountains, killing dozens of people, was one of the deadliest disasters of its kind in Turkey.. The blaze at the ...
The government bombed and killed residents of villages who refused to join the government forces. The government spread pictures of dead children in newspapers and blamed the PKK. Turkey was condemned for carrying out the massacre of Kurdish civilians in the ECHR. Gazi Quarter massacre: March 15, 1995 Istanbul and Ankara: 23 [84]