Murat Sofuoglu is a staff writer at TRT World.
The helicopters, which carried several PKK terrorists, are said to have been bought by the Talabanis' PUK party with the help of Washington during the Iraq war.
Introduced last year, the law allows political parties to create alliances like the People’s Alliance and Nation Alliance.
By brokering a difficult normalisation deal between Saudis and Iranians, the two Middle Eastern rivals, Beijing has shown that it can be a stabilising force across the turbulent region.
China has the ability to export blueprints and expertise to Moscow, which would shore up Russia's depleting defence capacity amid the Ukraine conflict.
Some experts say Türkiye's mediation can prevail over Moscow's hardball tactics and lead to the deal's extension from March 18 onwards.
A new burial ground at Antakya is now the final resting place for earthquake victims, including those who have not been identified or claimed by relatives.
Needs of the earthquake-affected people shift as the relief efforts move into the second phase.
Abdi Dogan retrieves a hair dryer, flute, and books from the debris of their collapsed house in Islahiye town.
A Turkish man's desperate search for his family relics came to a sudden end as his apartment building, already damaged by the February 6 twin quakes, came crashing down in the latest tremor.
Mustafa Kazazz has been camping next to the debris of his home since the earthquake snatched everything from him — his parents, siblings and fiancee.
In Antakya, a driver ferrying bodies to graveyards explains how overwhelming the aftermath of the earthquake is despite his routine job of transporting the dead.
People from all walks of life flowed to earthquake-affected areas to stand alongside survivors of Türkiye’s most destructive disaster.
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