Turkey BC to 2005 research

TURKEY

7500 to 8000 BC – Archeologists unearth a settlement dated to the dawn of civilization. In Turkey excavations of an ancient city from Neolothic times. 30 July 2015. Popular Archeology.

0000 – Jesus Christ was born and lived.

306 – 330 AD – In 306 AD Byzantium was renamed Constantinople. Then Istanbul became in 330 AD the capital of the eastern half of the Roman empire. (The Romans. RH Barrow. (c)1949 UK).

29 May 526 AD – Antioch earthquake 25,000 people were killed. Timeline of earthquakes.

1453 – The Ottoman sultan Mehmed II first overran Constantinople (Istanbul) in 1453. (The great upheval ©2007 Jay Winik US)

1500’s – In the 1500’s the Tartars were among Europe’s most important states. Thousands of Russians were seized and sold in Ottoman slave markets. Tartars stormed entire Russian and Ukrainian villages. (The great upheaval ©2007 Jay Winik US).

1529 – The Turks attacked Vienna Austria and threatened Germany.

1600’s – By the 16^th century the country under the Sultan Suleiman the Ottoman empire was at its height. Constantinople (Istanbul) Ottoman government. The sultan's harem held several hundred female sex slaves. Sultan Mehmet III murdered all 19 of his brothers. But in 1603 there was a new sultan Ahmed I. (The great upheaval ©2007 Jay Winik US).

1662 – 20,000 prisoners were chained whipped and confined to bondage, slavery. I

1688 -Tartar Khan plundered Ukraine and took 60,000 prisoners. (The great upheaval © 2007 Jay Winik US).

17 Aug 1668 – In Anatolia Turkey an 8 earthquake killed 8,000 people. USGS historic world earthquakes.

1683 – The soldiers of Islam, the Ottoman Turks moved up the Danube and stormed the gates of Vienna Austria. Catholic France and the Muslim Ottomans were allies. (The great upheaval ©2007 Jay Winik US).

20 August 1787 – Ottoman ships attacked the Russian frigates. A six hour battle, called an Ottoman holy war. (The great upheaval ©2007 Jay Winik US)

1800 – The Bitish Levant company buys half of the opium from Smyrna Turkey for import into Eurpope and the US. PBS Frontline.

1811 – The Ottoman effort to destroy the Wahhabis began in 1811. The Ottomans invaded the Wahhabi city of Diriyan, (now Saudi Arabia), and murdered, burned the city. The Saud imam was taken to Istanbul Turkey and executed. (Gerald S Posner. Secrets of the Kingdom ©2005 US).

1823 – Samuel Russell established Russell and company in 1823. He made a fortune with opium in Turkey smuggling it into China. (Who really runs the world ©2005 UK T.Burnett and A.Games)

1854 – UK and France were concerned about a Russian threat in Turkey and the Black sea. In 1854 the two countries declared war on Russia and the Crimean war began. (Practical family history mag August 2003 UK).

1876 – Bulgaria rebelled against the Ottoman Turks. 10,000 Bashi Bazouki crushed the rebellion with rapes and massacres. (The Kremlin conspiracy. (c)2014 Douglas Boyd UK).

21 Oct 1876 – Turksish butchers in a Christian village. Star NZ. Papers past.

1881 – Enver Pasha was born in 1881 at Adana on Turkey’s Black Sea coast. (History Today. June 2013 UK).

9 Aug 1912 – The Saros Marmara earthquake . Where the bronze age city of Troy was located in north west Turkey. (Apocalypse. Amos Nur. (c)2008 UK).

3 Feb 1913 – Adrianopole II, the first Balkan war between Bulgaria’s King Feroinano and Turkish Nationalists, led by Enver Pasha, for the possession of Adrianopole (Edirne), ceded to Bulgaria in the armistice of Decemeber 1912. The Bulgarian's captured the city on March 26, and a treaty was signed in London UK on May 30. Re-occupied and kept by Turkey in the second Balkan war.

5 Nov 1914 – Ottoman empire ended the war on Germany. Turkey's muslims. (Christopher Andrew. UK (c)2009 M15).

12 Nov 1914 – Turkish sultan Jamal Pasha declared a German holy war. (Today in history. Chch Star NZ 12 Nov 2014).

1915 – Drhan Panuk provided evidence of the killing of one million Armenians and 30,000 Kurds in Turkey in 1915. (Slavery inc Lydia Cacho (c)2010 UK).

19 Feb 1915 – World War One. British and French warships attacked the Ottomans in Dardanelles Turkey. (Today in history. AP 19 Feb 2015).

18 March 1915 – Failed British attack in Dardanelles Turkey. (Chch Star NZ Today in history 18 March 2015).

1916-17 – Collapse of the Ottoman empire, world war one. It began to collapse, creation of the Middle East. (The mystery of the shemitah. Jonathan Cahn (c)2014 US).

1919 – Mustafa Kemel began takeover.

1919 – The Turkish foreign ministry digitised archives from 1919. The government will provide researchers with online access to these archives. Daily Sabah. 4 Jan 2015.

1922-24 – In 1924 the Turkish Parliament abolished the Caliph of Islam. Ending an office which existed on and off since the death of Muhammad in 632, nearly 1,300 years earlier. The Ottoman empire was abolished in 1922. (The Middle East ©2006 C Catherwood)

1923 – Modern Turkey was founded by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in 1923, following the collapse of the Ottoman empire. An Islamic institution. Kemal, a military commander, established the Turkish Republic, as a “secular” entity, along the lines of other European states. (Stratfor morning intel brief. 29 August 2007, Geopolitical diary Turkey)

1924 – Ataturk abolished the Ottoman caiphate in Istanbul. (Jihad. Gilles Kepel ©2002 UK).

1924-28 – Abdul Majid II, the last Caliph, who went into exile after Turkish Nationalists on 3 March 1924. Abolished the Caliphate. Turkey's Mustafa Kemal or Ataturk, the Ottoman empire. The Muslim Brotherhood was founded in 1924. A Caliphate. (Gideons spies. Gordon Thomas (c)2008 UK).

1927 – End of the Julian calendar and the beginning of the Gregorian calendar in Turkey. (Ancestry March April 2007 p21).

1929 –Saudi spy chief Kamal Adham was born in Turkey in 1929, of a Turkish mother and Albanian father. A year later he was taken to Saudi Arabia and educated in Egypt.

1930s – Turkey the current law dates back to the 1930s it bans sex slaves from marrying or having children. 40% of Turkey's sex tourists are from Russia. (Slavery inc. Lydia Cacho ©2010 UK).

15 Jan 1934 – In Erzincan 10,700 people were killed in a 8.1 earthquake. Rapture Ready.

1939 – The Erinca a 7.9 earthquake. 30,000 people died. Archeology magazine.

1939 – Constantine C Menges was born in Turkey of German parents on 1 September 1939, the day world war II began. His father was a scholar specialising in the languages and peoples of the southern Iran and Turkey and had been with the academy of sciences in Berlin. The Gestapo arrested and interrogated him in 1936. He then fled to Czech. In 1937 his father moved to Turkey where his mother joined him. In 1967 he moved to California and joined the staff at the Rand corp. A foreign policy think tank. During his four years at Rand he wrote on a range of global issues including counter-insurgency in Vietnam etc ---

26 Dec 1939 – Erzincan 7.9 earthquake 33,000 people were killed. Timeline of earthquakes.

1944 – In Istanbul, Major Akhmed, the assistant military attaché at the Soviet embassy. Contacted the US military attaché trying to defect. He was turned over to the Turkish secret services. (The hidden hand. Richard J Aldrich ©2001 UK).

26 Dec 1944 – Erzincan 32,700 people were killed in a 7.8 earth quake. Rapture ready.

Aug 1945 – A Sovet citizen, Konstantin Volkov went to the British consulate in Istanbul Turkey, he was withheld by M16. He asked to see John Read. Volkov left by plane to Moscow where he was interrogated and executed. News of the intended defection of Volkov in Istanbul Turkey overlapped with the defection of Gouzenko in Ottawa Canada. (Too secret to long. Chapman Pincher ©1984 US).

Sept 1945 – Kim Philby was one of the UK intel officers in Istanbul. Konstantin Volkov was planning to defect to the west. Moscow sent two hit men to kil lhim. (The new spy masters. Stephen Grey (c)2015 UK).

1946 – Kim Philby was appointed M15 SIS station chief in Turkey. He was working for NKVD Stalins intel, he was a British Soviet spy. (History Today. May 2014 UK).

1949-51 – The CIA had active operations going into Albania, the Baltic, Ukraine and from Turkey into southern Russia. Agents parachuting in, walking in, boating in, but, most of these operations failed. Philby played a part in compromising CIA agents in eastern Europe.

1959-89 – Discovery update. Dogubayazet in eastern Turkey and Noahs ark. 20 June 1987 Noahs ark national park. Late 1950s Ararat mount. Noahs ark was found buried in 1959. Sept 1960. Noahs ark Life magazine article in 1977. Nov 1986. In May 1989 a visitors center was opened.

March 1963 – JFK and the Jupiter missiles were withdrawn from Turkey and Italy. John McCloy was Kennedy’s adviser on arms control. (The great cold war. Gordon S Barress ©2009 US).

19 Aug 1966 – Varko about 2,400 people were killed. Timeline of earthquakes.

1970’s – BCCI established offices in every country it was allowed to, including Turkey. Rep offices which were not allowed to collect deposits or make loans. It also set up joint venture banks in partnership with other foreign banks or local investors.

28 March 1970 – 1,086 people were killed in a 7.4 earth quake destroying 254 villages in Gediz. Timeline of earthquakes.

12 May 1971 – A 6.3 earthquake 100 people were killed. Timeline of earthquakes.

22 May 1971 – A 6.9 earthquake 1,000 people were killed. Timeline of earthquakes.

28 May 1971 – Israeli Consul Efraim Elrom was assassinated in Istanbul. The Turkish Liberation Army in alliance with Palestinians claimed responsibility.

1973 – In Turkey Lockheed were more involved, paying commissions of $876,000 over a few years. In 1973 their agent in Ankara, Nezih M Dural, asked for his fee to be increased to $5,000 a month, but Lockheed said that in future he must buy influence not just intelligence. Dural’s great opportunity came after the Turks invaded Cyprus, when the US imposed an embargo on arms to Turkey. It was circumvented with the secret approval of the State Department, when Turkey brought two squadrons of Starfighters, produced in Italy. For one squadron Dural received a commission of $240,000. Three years later he was arrested on charges of currency fraud.

6 Sept 1975 – A 6.8 earthquake in Lice 2,000 people were killed. Timeline of earthquakes.

1976 – By 1976 the Turks were spending more than $2 billion a year on defence, or more than 30% of their budget. Turkey brought arms wherever they could. Including Northrop Tigers via Libya and Iran and submarines and torpedo boats from West Germany. A proposed tank factory was to be built by the West Germans in Turkey.

11 August 1976 – Attack on terminal at Istanbul airport. PFLP, Japanese Red army terrorists killed four people including an American, Harold Rosenthal, and injured 20 others.

11 August 1976 – Istanbul machine gun grenade attack killed four people and wounded 17.

29 May 1977 – Istanbul baggage area explosion killed five people and inured 24.

1978 – The PKK was formed as a Marxist Leninist group in 1978, by political science student Abdullah Ocalan.

1980 – Maria Theresa policy, authorities remove gypsy children from their families and place them in boarding schools. (A history of the gypsies from eastern Europe and Russia. David M Crowe. ©2007).

13 October 1980 – Turkish Boeing 72 Istanbul to Ankara was hijacked to Iran. It landed in Diyarbakir Turkey. The plane was stormed and four hijackers arrested.

1982 – Ron Wyatt and Noah's ark was discovered. Pinterest. 7 Nov 2015.

7 August 1982 – Ankara machine gun attack killed nine people and wounded 71.

15 August 1984 – The first time the PKK launched an attack against Turkish government installations.

15 August 1984 – The PKK began an armed struggle against Turkey. During the conflict with Turkey 40,000 people were killed and more than 5,000 Kurdish villages destroyed and two million Kurdish refugees fled their homes.

1985 – Turkish embroidery. Pauline Johnson. Victoria and Albert museum. ISBN 0-9481-0702-2

July 1986 – An article by Judith Miller in the New York Times magazine described a terrorist attack in Ankara Turkey, a synagogue bombing. Clearly marked communist weapons the direct sponsors of the attack were Syria, Libya and Iran.

20 June 1987 – Noah's ark landed in the mountains of Ararat, anciently called Uratu. Moses and Genesis. Survived the great flood. Discovery update. Biblical archeology digest.

27 January 1989 – Three simultaneous bombings of US businesses in Istanbul and Ankara. The Dev sol revolutionary left claimed responsibility.

12 June 1989 – A US Consul boat was bombed in the Bosphorus straits, no injuries. The Warriors of June 16^th movement claimed responsibility.

11 October 1989 – Bombing outside a US military px. Dev sol claimed responsibility.

7 February 1991 – A US civilian contractor was killed at his car at Incirlik air base. Dev sol claimed responsibility.

28 February 1991 – A US air force officer was shot and wounded in Izmir.

28 October 1991 – A car bomb killed one American serviceman and wounded his wife. Islamic Jihad responsible.

28 October 1991 – Two car bombs killed one American in Ankara. Islamic Jihad responsible.

1995 – About 80% of the drugs that enter Europe transit through Turkey. In the late 1990’s the annual drug budget of the Turkish mafia was slightly higher than the annual budget for the Turkish government. (Modern Jihad ©2003 L Napoleoni)

1996 – The Susurluk accident, a deadly car crash. An MP, a police chief, a beauty queen, a Turkish gangster and Abdullah Catli. Catli and heroin tafficking with a diplomatic passport.

3 November 1996 – A car crashed near Susurluk in Turkey. The passengers were all involved in smuggling drugs to Europe. Between 70 to 80% of the drugs that enter Europe transit through Turkey. High ranking politicians are also involved in this illegal trade and the Turkish mafia.

1997 – Martin A Lee. On the trail of Turkey’s terrorist grey Wolves. Consortium news alliance.

20 November 1998 – Italy last week arrested Turkey’s most wanted fugitive, the leader of the Kurdistan workers party PKK and waged a guerrilla war against Turkey from Syria. Until Damascus cut ties with the group last month. PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan was caught in Rome 13 November after arriving from Moscow carrying a false passport. The Turkish ambassador to the US Bakiilkin said the Kurdistan workers party PKK has killed more than 30,000 people since Abdullah Ocalan formed it in 1978. Mr Ilkin urged Italy to extradite the rebel leader to Turkey to stand trial on charges of terrorism and treason. VOA.

1999 – Istanbul. An Earthquke in 1999 killed more than 17,000 people. Mainly in Izmit east of Istanbul. (new York Times. 26 April 2015).

1999-2009 – The trafficking in persons report 2009.Turkey has 200 identified groups that sex traffick women and girls. From 1999-2009, 250,000 people have been trafficked through Turkey. Women from Azerbaijan, Georgia, Armenia, Russia, Ukraine, Montenegro. Girls kidnapped from Romanian orphanages and sold into sex slavery in Turkey. (Slavery inc .Lydia Cacho ©2010 UK).

Aug 1999 – A 45 second earthquake in north west Turkey killed 17,000 people and flattened 60,000 buildings. (Bad times in history. Roland C Barker ©2001 US).

17 Aug 1999 – 17,800 people were killed in a 7.4 earthquake. (Aljazeera 15 Oct 2013).

17 Aug 1999 – Izmit 17,000 people were killed in a 7.4 earthquake. Rapture Ready.

19 October 1999 – Egypt air flight 838 from Istanbul to Cairo was hijacked over Turkey. It flew to Hamburg Germany and the hijacker was arrested after a promise of asylum.

7 December 1999 – Sardan Tolga, Bin Lardin activities in Turkey reported. Istanbul Milliyet/internet news translated from Turkish.

2001 – The history of Turkey. Buglas A Howard. Westport Conn. Greenwood press. Worldcat database.

15 March 2001 – Airliner hijacking in Istanbul. Three Chechens hijacked a Russian airliner during a flight from Istanbul to Moscow and forced it to fly to Medina Saudi Arabia. The plane carried 162 passengers and a crew of 12. After a 22 hour seige during which more than 40 passengers were released. Saudi security forces stormed the plane, killing a hijacker, a passenger and a flight attendant.

1 November 2001 – Turkey announced it would send 90 troops to northern Afghanistan to train northern alliance forces.

29 April 2002 – Turkey assumed command of the peacekeeping mission in Afghanistan. The Turkish government plans to take control of the 4,500 member 18 nation force from the UK in six months. Turkey currently has 270 peacekeepers in Afghanistan and is the only Muslim country that has contributed to the peacekeeping mission.

2003 – The bulk of the drug money enters Turkey in suitcases carried by couriers.

23 Jan 2003 – Police raids aim to smash the Turkish mafia. Nick Hughes. The Guardian UK.

1 May 2003 – 150 people were killed in an earthquake. (ABC Australia. 6 Feb 2013).

November 2003 – A Turkish man admitted receiving $50,000 from an Iranian source and sent it to Turkey to fund last months suicide bombings in Istanbul. (Iranfilter 21 Dec 2003)

15 November 2003 – Synagogue bombing in Istanbul. Two suicide truck bombs exploded outside the Neve Shalom and Beth Israel synagogues in Istanbul killing 25 people and wounding at least 300 more. A Turkish militant group, the great eastern Islamic raiders, claimed responsibility. An al-Qaeda connection was suspected. An al-Qaeda branch called, the brigades of the martyr Abu Hafz al-Masri, claimed responsibility.

20 November 2003 – Two more suicide truck bombings in Istanbul, devastated the British HSBC bank and the British consulate general in Istanbul, killing 27 people and wounding at least 450. The dead included consul general Roger Short. Al-Qaeda was suspected. The great eastern Islamic raiders front claimed responsibility.

17 May 2004 – Four small bombs exploded outside branches of HSBC in Ankara and Istanbul before Tony Blair’s visit to Turkey.

20 May 2004 – In the Acibadem district of Istanbul a bomb exploded in the parking lot of a McDonalds restaurant, breaking windows, destroying one car and damaging several other vehicles. No group claimed responsibility.

3 August 2005 – A blast in Istanbul killed two people.

5 August 2005 – Five Turkish soldiers died in a bomb attack blamed on the PKK in Hakkari province.

12 Dec 2005 – Turkish police seize drugs and held 23 people in Istanbul. Heroin cocaine. BBC UK.