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Turkey's prominent poet, writer and intellectual Sezai Karakoç passed away on Nov. 16, the country's presidential spokesperson announced on social media. He was 88.

The European Union on Feb. 5 renewed its terrorist list for a further six months.

The sanctions list features 14 persons and 21 entities or groups, including the PKK and Dalokay Sanli, a senior figure of the terrorist group.

Terrorist organizations DHKP/C, IBDA-C, and TAK - a PKK offshoot - are also on the list.

Germany's foreign ministry said on Dec. 31 it was providing consular aid to a German man barred from leaving Turkey after the authorities accused him of supporting a terrorist organization on social media.

A Greek court on Dec. 4 ordered the arrest of nine Turkish citizens pending trial for terrorism-related offences, including links to an outlawed militant group behind a series of suicide bombings in Turkey.

A Greek court on Dec. 4 ordered the detention of nine Turkish citizens pending trial for terrorism-related offences, including links to a banned militant group behind a series of suicide bombings in Turkey.

A convicted al-Qaeda suspect who was detained by gendarmerie on April 19 while working as a village imam in the Central Anatolian province of Çankırı has admitted to involvement in the 2003 HSBC bombing.

A court in Turkey has suspended the trial of a suspect who was arrested over criminal organization-related charges in 1994 and has been under arrest pending trial for 22 years, online news outlet Diken reported on April 12. 

?lhan Çomak's trial was suspended to June 1 by Istanbul's Ça?layan court, as his lawyer's demand for his release was rejected by prosecutors. 

I narrowly escaped al-Qaeda?s bombing of the London Underground on July 7, 2005, while I was doing my postgraduate in London. The same bombs had hit Istanbul just two years before, leaving 57 people dead, making Turkey also a victim of global terror. Four years had passed since the Sept. 11 attacks in New York. 

A blast at the office of a magazine in the Ka??thane district of Istanbul on late March 25 left one dead and three injured, according to a police report.

An explosion at the office of a magazine linked to an Islamic group has caused the death of one journalist and has left three others injured.

The reasons for the attack are not yet, though investigators say a "bomb" is likely to have caused the blast. Police have sealed off the region.