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The General Staff of the Turkish Armed Forces (Turkish: Türk Silahlı Kuvvetleri Genelkurmay Başkanlığı, abbreviation: TSK Gnkur. Bşk.lığı ) is the highest staff organization in the Turkish Armed Forces.
According to the Turkish government, the perpetrators of the attack were members of the PKK, a group designated as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the European Union, and the United States. [13] The male perpetrator was identified as Ali Örek, [16] who had the codename "Rojger" [5] and was born in 1992 in Beytüşşebap, Şırnak Province.
As opposed to previous political interventions by the Turkish military, Turkey's AKP government and pro-state media maintain that the 15 July 2016 coup attempt was not motivated by allegiance to Kemalist ideology, but rather to the vast political, economic, and religious network led by U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gülen. [89]
Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan won reelection Sunday, extending his increasingly authoritarian rule into a third decade in a country reeling from high inflation and the aftermath of an ...
The killers of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi may have taken his dismembered body out of Turkey in luggage, a Turkish official was quoted as saying.
The Gendarmerie General Command (Turkish: Jandarma Genel Komutanlığı) is the national gendarmerie force of the Republic of Turkey.It is a service branch of the Turkish Ministry of Interior responsible for the maintenance of the public order in areas that fall outside the jurisdiction of police forces (generally in rural areas), as well as assuring internal security along with carrying out ...
Turkey has begun exporting around 15,000 tonnes of eggs to the United States, where an ongoing outbreak of bird flu disrupted supply, sent prices soaring and led to talks with other producers, a ...
6 February – Turkey withdraws its accreditation of Afghan diplomats representing the pre-2021 government. [10]11 February – Ten CHP district municipal officials from Kartal and Ataşehir in Istanbul Province are arrested on suspicion of links to the PKK.