A Turkish shepherd has reportedly blasted his two young children with a shotgun before turning the firearm on himself after learning that his ex-wife had gained legal custody of them. Erdogan Acar, 35, who worked as a shepherd in the village of Yakupabdal in the north-eastern Turkish province of Bayburt,…
Turkish customs officials who took an interest in a bunch of amusing pictures of football legend Diego Maradona have discovered they were hiding bags of cocaine. The officials at Istanbul Airport were shocked when they started looking at the Maradona pictures, prompting a sniffer dog to start barking. A closer…
This young woman who lost both of her legs below the knee after having a nose job at a Turkish plastic surgery clinic is hoping to receive nearly 100,000 GBP in compensation. Sevinc Ceklik was 25 years old when she signed up to have nose reduction surgery at a private…
A Turkish man is facing three years in jail for hitting his newly married wife with a Teflon-coated pan and stabbing her after prosecutors did not believe him when he said she attacked herself. Businessman Erkan Basboga, who works in a logistics and storage centre and owns several companies, married…
Turkish vets have used 15 litres of olive oil to clean up a cat which had fallen into an oil tank and was totally covered in black grease. The ginger cat was found in the neighbourhood of Izzetpasa in the eastern Turkish city of Elazig on 9th December. According to…