Çankaya, Ankara

Turkey celebrated National Sovereignty and Children's Day on April 23 along with the 96th anniversary of the first season of Grand National Assembly.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on March 19 condemned the suicide bomb attack in Istanbul that killed five people, and said the treaty will continue to support Turkey in its fight against terror. 

The Kurdistan Freedom Hawks (TAK), a terror group linked to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb attack that killed 35 people in the capital Ankara, according to a statement on its website on March 17.

Following a five-month-long vacancy, the Turkish government has appointed a police chief for the capital city of Ankara to act as its principal director. Mahmut Karaaslan, who had been serving as the police chief in the eastern town of Van, has been appointed to Ankara, according to a decree issued in the Official Gazette early March 15.  

A bomb attack in Turkey's capital - the third in just five months - killed at least 37 people and wounded more than 100, with security sources saying the perpetrator spent months in training camps of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

Less than a month after the last terrorist attack, which left 28 dead and scores injured in the Turkish capital, Ankara witnessed a new terrorist atrocity on Sunday evening that instantly killed 30 people and was followed by a mounting death toll due to the large number of seriously injured. 

Australian Ambassador to Turkey James Larsen was only meters away when a suicide car bomb exploded in the heart of the capital Ankara on March 13, and managed to escape the blast unscathed.

Larsen was with his 12-year-old daughter when the bomb exploded, driving her home from a horse riding lesson, Embassy officials told the Hürriyet Daily News on March 14.

Leading business organizations from across Turkey have condemned the suicide car bomb attack in Ankara on March 13 which left at least 37 dead and 125 wounded, while also urging for unity in the face of terror and sharing their sorrow and condolences. 

Turkey must learn "to live with terror," the head of Turkey's Supreme Court has said, hours after similar remarks by a columnist of a pro-government newspaper created outrage on social media. 

Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic has sent a telegram of condolences to Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu over a terrorist attack in Ankara.

“We have received with great sorrow and sympathy the news of the big explosion caused by a car bomb in the centre of Ankara which left dozens of people dead and many seriously injured," Vucic stated, and added: