Magnitude 7.8 Earthquake Rocks Turkey and Syria!

Syrian citizen search through the wreckage of a collapsed building, in Azmarin town, in Idlib province north Syria. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Gunman kills 39 in Istanbul nightclub, manhunt under way

Relatives react at the funeral of Ayhan Arik, a victim of an attack by a gunman at Reina nightclub, in Istanbul, Turkey, January 1, 2017. REUTERS/Osman Orsal

Turkey bombs Kurds, arrests dozens in crackdown after twin attack

Damaged police vehicles and cars are pictured on December 10, 2016 on the site where a car bomb exploded near the stadium of football club Besiktas in central Istanbul.(AFP PHOTO / OZAN KOSE)

State media quotes military saying it hit PKK headquarters in northern Iraq, as death toll rises to 44 in Istanbul double bombing

Turkey hunts for answers, mourns dead after blasts kill 38

Caskets of a bomb victim during a memorial in Istanbul, Sunday, Dec. 11, 2016, for police officers killed outside the Besiktas football club stadium Vodafone Arena late Saturday. Family members, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, ministers and colleagues attended the memorial as Turkey declared a national day of mourning Sunday after twin blasts in Istanbul killed dozens of people and wounded many others near a soccer stadium. Turkish authorities have banned distribution of images relating to the Istanbul explosions within Turkey. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Turkish court jails nine staff of opposition daily

A man holds the latest copy of the Cumhuriyet newspaper outside its Istanbul headquarters after police detained chief editor Murat Sabuncu and two columnists of the opposition newspaper, October 31, 2016. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

13 members of Cumhuriyet have now been detained in raids, amplifying concerns about country’s press freedoms

Social media interrupted in Turkey after crackdown

An illustrative photo taken on September 11, 2013, shows the logo of social networking website Twitter displayed on a computer screen in London. (AFP Photo/Leon Neal)

WhatsApp, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube slowed or stopped after government arrests top Kurdish lawmakers

Turkey reportedly amasses tanks, troops near border to Iraq, vows to tackle ‘threat’

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Turkey sacks 10,000 more civil servants, shuts media in latest crackdown

Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan attends a Republic Day ceremony at Anitkabir, the mausoleum of modern Turkey’s founder Ataturk, to mark the republic’s anniversary as he is flanked by Prime Minister Binali Yildirim (R) in Ankara, Turkey, October 29, 2016. REUTERS/Umit Bektas

Knife attacker shot outside Israeli embassy in Ankara

Police special forces stand guard in front of the Israeli Embassy in Ankara, Turkey after a mentally disturbed Turkish man wielding a knife tried to storm the building, September 21, 2016. (AFP/Adem Altan)

Perpetrator wounded by security forces after trying to storm building; no Israelis injured in incident

More Turkish tanks head across border into Syria

A picture taken around 5 kilometers west from the Syrian-Turkish border city of Karkamis in the southern region of Gaziantep, shows Turkish Army tanks driving to the Syrian border town of Jarabulus, August 25, 2016. (AFP/BULENT KILIC)

Armored units join a dozen already operating inside Syrian territory in battle against Islamic State group and Kurdish forces