NATO emergency meeting

Turkish police have detained over a dozen foreigners near the country's border with Syria on suspicion of attempting to join the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). 

The Kilis Governor's Office said on Aug. 21 that security forces had intercepted 16 suspects in Elbeyli district. According to the office, 14 of the suspects were foreign nationals.

Turkish security officials seize 30 suicide vests, some of them ready for use, in operations against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Turkish security officials have seized 30 suicide vests, some of them ready for use, in operations against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants, a senior Turkish official has told the Hürriyet Daily News.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavu?o?lu and the president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Anne Brasseur, have condemned terrorism and violent extremism, stressing the need to continue combating it. 

You can read the details in Serkan Demirta??s story in today?s edition of Hürriyet Daily News; Turkey?s Incirlik air base is soon to become the hub for military operations against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) by the U.S.-led coalition of countries.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has questioned the legitimacy of the Turkish Air Force's operations in Iraq, primarily against outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants, in an interview with Al-Ahram on Aug. 6. 

A Turkish sergeant has been killed in mine blast in northeast province of Kars, Turkey, security sources said Aug. 1.

"A group of members of the terrorist organization" sat vehicles on fire on Ka??zman-I?d?r-Erzurum highway near Ka??zman district, security sources said, referring to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

?Confrontation? can be avoided if all armed groups quit Turkey, Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu said, vowing to continue security operations until all armed groups leave the country.

The outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants killed at least 12 police and army members since last week, after Turkey launched a two-pronged "war on terror" against PKK and Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants.

Here is a chronology of events that started following a suspected ISIL suicide bombing in southeastern Turkey.

July 20

In the past 10 days, Turkey made global headlines with its belated entry to the coalition against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) led by the United States. This was, perhaps, good news of sort. Meanwhile, however, some bad news also came: Turkey?s three-year-old cease-fire with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers?

Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov stated on Tuesday that Bulgaria expresses solidarity with Turkey.

His comments come after the request of Turkey for a special meeting of the North Atlantic Council to be convened under Article 4 of the Washington Treaty.