Geography of Turkey

Turkish TV presenter/Turkish TV8 Channel owner Acun Ilicali dominated  Greek press reports on Monday with talk of a meeting he had with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras regarding the acquisition of a TV license to operate in Greece.

Two people were killed and five were wounded in an armed attack at a tea house in Istanbul's Küçükçekmece district late on Feb. 1. 

Police detained six suspects during an operation following the incident.  

Seven people wounded when two masked men attacked a tea house in the Kanarya neighborhood of Küçükçekmekce with a long-barreled weapon and a handgun. 

Nine migrants, including two children, died when their boat sank off Turkey's Aegean coast on Feb. 2.

Security forces were informed about migrants on the Seferihisar shore of ?zmir province. Eleven migrants who were waiting on the shore said the fiber boat sank due to the waves.

Before starting a series of official meetings in Chile on Jan. 31, Turkish President Tayyip Erdo?an told reporters covering his trip that "the people from the southeast" have been sending messages to Ankara that the fight against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) should "go on until the end." He stressed that the government was resolved to see to this.

The unique houses at the ancient site of Kayaköy in western Mu?la province are being threatened by the trees and plants growing in, on and around them, officials warnA number of architectural structures in the 3,000-year-old ancient site of Kayaköy in the western province of Mu?la are being threatened by local flora, as trees and plant life have damaged the walls of the old buildings.

Turkish gendarmerie forces captured some 315 migrants trying to cross to the Greek islands from the northwestern province of Çanakkale, where the latest migrant tragedy saw 39 people, including children, killed off the Ayvac?k district on Jan. 30.

Gendarmerie teams caught 315 migrants of Syrian, Afghan and Moroccan origin during operations throughout the early hours of Feb. 1.  

Three construction workers were killed on Feb. 1 when a freight lift crashed to the ground at the construction site of a 32-story residence in Istanbul's Bahçe?ehir neighborhood.

The freight lift crashed to the ground from the 23rd floor with workers Yasin Bak?r, ?ükrü Ya?ar and Osman Yard?mc? inside.

At least three Syrian migrants, including two children, drowned early on Jan. 31 in a fresh migrant boat tragedy off the western Turkish resort town of Didim. 

Some 11 tons of armaments have been seized in Sur alone, one of the several southeastern districts where clashes are ongoing between Turkey's security forces and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), proving that the operations are justified, Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu has said.

Two security personnel have been killed in separate attacks by outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants in the restive southeastern Turkish provinces of ??rnak and Diyarbak?r.