Turkey

One police officer and one soldier have succumbed to their injuries sustained eight days ago in attacks by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in Turkey's southeastern provinces of ??rnak and Diyarbak?r.

A police officer has succumbed to his wounds sustained eight days ago in an outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) attack in Turkey's southeastern ??rnak province. 

The officer, 24-year-old Tayfun Yüce, was wounded on Feb. 1 as PKK militants detonated an improvised explosive device during the passage of an armored police vehicle on the Ataken neighborhood of ??rnak's ?dil district. 

Three suspects have been arrested over a teahouse shooting in Istanbul on Feb. 1 that killed two and wounded at least five others, Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan last November "threatened to flood Europe with migrants," the Greek website euro2day.gr has reported.

Lyutvi Mestan, the former leader of DPS party who was expelled last year, vowed that his new political project will adhere to "liberal and Euro-Atlantic" values.

In an interview with private national NOVA TV broadcaster on Tuesday, he said that the crisis in the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS) party was the outcome of its ever more outspoken "pro-Russian" orientation.

The United States has reiterated that it does not perceive the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) as a terrorist organization, while adding that it understands ally Turkey's concerns regarding the organization, a few days after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an asked the U.S. to either support Ankara or the PYD.

Four people were killed when two trains collided head-on in the southern German state of Bavaria on Feb. 9, a police spokesman said, adding about 150 people were injured, including 10 very seriously.

The collision took place on a single track, he said. 

The Turkish government fears that fierce fighting in Syria's Aleppo province will spark the arrival of up to 600,000 migrants at its border in a "worst case scenario", Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmu? said on Feb. 8.
                   

A trilateral summit will be held in March bringing together Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey to establish a "tripartite mechanism" to cooperate on the migrant crisis, Daily Sabah reports, citing diplomatic sources.

The daily notes this comes against the background of "a new wave of refugees due to Russian military interference".

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has just had her third visit to Turkey in the last four months. One was for the G-20 Summit last November, but the Oct. 18 visit and the visit yesterday (Feb. 8) focused on the same issue: Decreasing the Syrian refugee burden on the EU, on Germany in particular, and convincing the Turkish government to keep as many refugees as possible in Turkey.