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The Roboski massacre (Kurdish: Komkujiya Roboskî), also known as the Uludere airstrike, [3] [4] took place on December 28, 2011, at Ortasu, Uludere near the Iraq-Turkey border, when the Turkish Air Force bombed a group of Kurdish civilians who had been involved in smuggling gasoline and cigarettes, killing 34.
On 1 November 2014, multiple protests took place to support the Kurds of Kobanî. 5,000 people demonstrated in the Turkish town of Suruç, 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) from the border. At least 15,000 marched in Turkey's largest Kurdish-majority city of Diyarbakır and 1,000 protested in Istanbul, all peaceful. [16]
7 February – A plane is forced to land in Turkey following a bomb threat from a passenger [4] on board a flight from Kharkiv in Ukraine.; 9 February – Tear gas and water cannons used by the Erdoğan government against street protests against his government's internet restrictions.
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The U.S. consulate in Turkey issued an advisory to U.S. citizens to avoid the Incirlik Air Base in southern Turkey, which houses about 50 nuclear bombs, [224] until "normal operations have been restored". [225] [226] They stated that local authorities were denying access to the air base and that power supplying the air base was shut off.
December 2009 Kurdish protests in Turkey; 2011 Kurdish protests in Iraq; 2011–2012 Kurdish protests in Turkey; 2014 Kobanî protests; 2019 Papua protests (Indonesia) March and Rally for Scottish Independence (2012–2013) Hirak Rif Movement (Morocco) Telangana movement (India) Gdeim Izik protest camp (Morocco) 2024 New Caledonia unrest (France)
At the end of an unnamed private road in Red River County, on a brisk fall day in 2019, Texas fire marshals approached the site of an explosion. Chunks of concrete littered the ground, while ...
Turkey did not specify how many troops would be going, but NATO announced on Tuesday that it would be sending 700 troops to bolster the force in the area. All the new troops are expected to come ...