Turkey News

Ankara - While Syria was all too quickly blamed as being behind the bombs that killed 46 and wounded more than 150, it now emerges that planning and execution is an all Turkish affair. Among the dead and wounded are Syrians as well.

Istanbul - Ayasofya in Istanbul, one of the oldest Christian cathedrals in the world, was converted into a mosque and then a museum. Milllions of tourists visit it each year, and now Islamists want to open it as a mosque.

Multiple explosions have been reported in the Turkish border town of Reyhanli with 4 people being reported killed, and at least 18 wounded.

Kurdish rebels belonging to the militant PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party) have began pulling their fighters out of Turkey, and back to their main stronghold in northern Iraq.

Istanbul - You might have heard that Turkish Airlines banned alchohol and red lipstick, but did you know that they also prohibited their flight attendants from having blonde hair?

Izmit - Spring has finally come to Turkey, and people enjoy walking outside in the sunshine, strolling through parks, planning weddings, and admiring tulips.

While US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is in Israel today, offering refueling tankers as part of a large arms deal, Israel's National Security Council head Yaakov Amidror is in Turkey to discuss stationing Israeli fighter jets in an airbase near Ankara.

Common security fears over the deteriorating Syrian situation is something that greatly influenced the repairing of strained relations between Israel and Turkey.

Deputy Turkish Prime Minister Bulent Arinc states that Turkey sees complete normalization of relations with Israel to the degree of cooperation and friendship that existed before the 2010 flotilla incident that soured relations.

Ankara - Turkish police have allegedly foiled an Al-Qaeda plot that sought to bomb the US embassy in Ankara, as well as a synagogue amongst other targets in the city of Istanbul.