Geography of Turkey

Euroleague's disciplinary judge has sanctioned both Serbia's Red Star and Turkey's Galatasaray for "the incidents generated by their fans and the failure to adopt measures to avoid disturbances" ahead of the match in Istanbul on November 21.

Police backed by riot squad raid communal house in IstanbulIstanbul police staged a morning raid on the Caferağa Neighborhood House in the city's Kadıköy district on Dec. 9, emptying the communal facility's library and confiscating possessions.

A young man who entered a military post without permission in the Lice district of the southeastern province of Diyarbakır has been shot and wounded by soldiers. The man, identified only as R.K., was taken to hospital soon after the incident, which came as rising tensions in the region spilled over into protests.

Turkey's largest airport operator TAV has announced that its subsidiaries have placed bids on ground services tenders opened by Turkish Airlines (THY) in eight airports across the country.

Despite the ban on using weapons during celebrations, many people used guns on Dec. 7 to commemorate the end of the occupation of Kilis, in southeastern Turkey, during the First World War.

The Turkish Coastguard prevented Greek fishermen from casting their nets inside Turkish territorial waters in the Aegean on Nov. 7.

After Greek fishermen wanted to cast their nets off of the Kardak islets, facing mainland Turkey, a Turkish coastguard boat intervened by approaching and forcing them away from the territories.

One of the leading names of the Turkish communist movement, Rasih Nuri İleri, died at his home in Istanbul Dec. 6 morning at the age of 94. İleri's funeral will be held Tuesday at Bebek Mosque after noon prayers and his body will be laid to rest in the Aşiyan Cemetery.

One miner was killed and another survived the collapse of a chrome mine near the southern Turkish city of Osmaniye on the night of Dec. 6.

Rescue and medical teams were dispatched to the scene after the accident, which occurred at a mine in the town of Akyar, 8 kilometers outside the city of Osmaniye.

Turkish police has behaved softly to demonstrators when compared to the U.S. colleagues' President Erdoğan says

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A group of militants were stopping people driving in their cars and checking their IDs in the Nusaybin district of the southeastern province of Mardin on Dec. 4.

After arriving to the scene, the police dispersed the group using tear gas and water cannons.