Cemil

After the deaths of six illegal migrants in the past 14 days due to lack of oxygen in the trailers of trucks they sneaked in at the border province of Edirne, drivers and transportation companies have started to take measures to prevent the boarding of migrants.

Theologian Cemil Kılıç has been attacked by a radical Islamist group in front of his house in Istanbul's Gaziosmanpaşa district, while Kılıç stated that he had been threatened for a few months.

Announcing the attack on a social media post, Kılıç said that while walking past a mosque, a man came up to him and started to shout saying, "Allahu Akbar."

The trial of 36 suspects of the terrorist attack on İstiklal Street last November, claiming the lives of six people will begin on May 9.

The indictment regarding the deadly attack was accepted by an Istanbul High Criminal Court, while the court decided to set the hearing on May 9, 10 and 11.

Some 357 people, including 16 infants, evacuated from Afghanistan's capital Kabul arrived in Istanbul on Aug. 22. 

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They were first taken to Pakistan on a Turkish Air Force transport plane and then brought to Istanbul on a Turkish Airlines flight.

The U.S. embassy in Ankara on April 14 reminded the bounties the United States put on the heads of three senior members of the illegal PKK.

The detention period of 10 retired admirals as part of an investigation into a declaration in support of the Montreux Convention has been extended for four more days.

A new anti-terrorism operation has been initiated in the south of Turkey, the country's interior minister announced on Aug. 12.

At least 1,448 security personnel will be part of Operation Yıldırım-5 in the southern province of Hatay's Amanos Mountains, Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu said at an inauguration ceremony.

The number of people who have died after drinking bootleg alcohol in the Aegean province of ?zmir has risen to 11, as three people hospitalized because of bootleg alcohol poisoning could not be saved.