Author: Mehmet Guzel
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3 people killed in alleged extremist attack at Turkey’s largest courthouse
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Two people attacked Turkey’s largest courthouse before being shot dead in an exchange of fire that also left one other person dead and five wounded
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Hope fading as deaths from quake near 12,000
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GAZIANTEP, Turkey • With hope of finding survivors fading, stretched rescue teams in Turkey and Syria searched Wednesday for signs of life in the rubble of thousands of buildings toppled by the world’s deadliest earthquake in more than a decade. The confirmed death toll approached 12,000. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited the especially hard-hit…
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Powerful quake rocks Turkey and Syria, kills more than 3,400
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ADANA, Turkey (AP) — A powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake rocked wide swaths of Turkey and neighboring Syria on Monday, killing more than 3,400 people and injuring thousands more as it toppled thousands of buildings and trapped residents under mounds of rubble. Authorities feared the death toll would keep climbing as rescuers searched through tangles of…
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Istanbul: Airliner skids off runway; 3 dead, 179 injured
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ISTANBUL • A Turkish airliner skidded off a runway, crashed into a ditch and broke apart while landing in bad weather in Istanbul on Wednesday, killing three people and injuring dozens. Passengers had to scramble through the split fuselage to escape. The aircraft, operated by low-cost carrier Pegasus Airlines, was arriving at Istanbul’s Sabiha Gokcen…