Kurdish rebels suspected in bombing

ShareKurdistan Freedom Falcons claimed responsibility of an attack which killed five and wounded twelve people in Istanbul on Tuesday. The Kurdish rebels detonated a remote-controlled bomb inside a bus carrying military personnel and their families. These rebels fighting for autonomy in the country’s Kurdish-dominated southeast have planned their attacks on Turkish targets this month and [...]

Guard shoots man at Ukrainian Consulate in Turkey

Share Istanbul Gov. Muammer Guler said on Tuesday that a security officer guarding the Ukrainian Consulate in Istanbul shot and injured a man who claimed to be carrying a bomb. Guler said the man, a Turk, tried to enter the building because of a personal grievance concerning his wife in Ukraine and that it was [...]