A young Turkish military police officer has died after he put a gun to his own head as a joke during a video call with his fiancee - but the weapon discharged. Dogukan Tok, a specialist sergeant with the Gendarmerie General Command in the small village of Meydan in southern…
The construction of a dam in Turkey will mean the relocation of thousands of families who have already been moved six times in the mountainous district's 152-year history. Yusufeli Dam, located on the Coruh River near Yusufeli in the Turkish province of Artvin in the north-eastern Black Sea region, is…
A Turkish court has fined a doctor for biting her violent husband to stop him from strangling her to death. The Turkish Penal Code defines the fine as comprising a minimum of five days, up to a maximum of 730 days, with a daily penalty ranging from a minimum of…
Turkey's very own Del Boy and Rodney have been caught after they defrauded 12 people by selling them 'gold bars' that were actually cheap cigarette lighters designed to look like they were real gold bars. The scam is reported to have taken place on the streets of Bagcilar, a working-class…
A Turkish judge has given a man who tracked down his young wife and blasted her to death at her parents' home with a pump-action shotgun a lower sentence for "good behaviour". The young woman's furious family says they are already planning to appeal the verdict after the judge rejected…
