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Bangladesh research
Bangladesh
1969 – MATS contract CIA airlines AID
to deliver relief supplies to Bangladesh. CIA Air SAT. (Air America.
Christopher Robins (c)1979 UK).
1971 – The liberation war that lead
to the creation of Bangladesh.
1971 – The 1971 Bangladesh genocide
is little remembered, but it was as bad as Rwanda. (History Today.
Oct 2014 UK).
1971 – Death sentences for war
crimes. Convicted of war crimes for the 1971 liberation war. (The
Hindu. Daily Times. NZ Herald. 19 Nov 2015).
25 March 1971 – Archer Blood was US
consul general in Dacca. The Pakistani army killed Bengalis in east
Pakistan, which is now called Bangladesh. Thousands of people were
shot, bombed and burned to death in Dacca. This was one of the worst
atrocities of the cold war. Two newspaper offices lay in ruins. Youth
were machine gunned down. There were at least two mass graves on
campus. (The blood telegram. Gary J Bass (c)2013 US).
28 March 1971 – US consul in Dacca.
The US State dept. National archives in Maryland US. (The blood
telegram. Gary J Bass (c)2013 US).
Dec 1971 – Hidden from researchers
and classified in archives and secret records. An air attack in Dec
1971 by Pakistan on Bangladesh. (The blood telegram. Gary J Bass
(c)2013 US).
4 Nov 1972 – Bangladesh constitution.
(Chch Star NZ. Today in history. 4 Nov 2015).
1974 – Famine in Bangladesh and
27,000 people died. Wikipedia.
1 Aug 1975 – All political parties
were banned in Bangladesh. (HistoryOrb.com).
13 May 1996 – A severe thunderstorm
and tornado in Bangladesh killed 600 people. (HistoryOrb.com Today in
history 13 May 2015).
1997 – Bangladesh national women
lawyers associates. Survey in the area of child and women
trafficking. Dhaka.
20 July 1998 – Monsoon rains caused
the Ganges river in Bangladesh to break its banks, leaving 8 million
people homeless. 20 million people suffered from flood related
diseases, malaria, dysentery and infections. (Bad times in history.
Roland C Barker (c)2001 US).
2004 – Revisiting the human
trafficking paradigm. The Bangladesh experience. Thematic group on
trafficking. Geneva Switzerland. Worldcat database.
4 Sept 2004 – Chinese Communist party
ties with Bangladesh Communist parties. BBC London UK. Bangladesh
Communist party, Marxist Leninist.
2005 – Terique Rahman son of former
Bangladesh PM collected bribes from foreign companies in 2005.
Corrupt Bangladesh police harrassed the public for cash, bribery in
Bangladesh. (Economic gangsters. Raymond Fisman. Edward Miguel
(c)2008 US).
17 Aug 2005 – The banned Bangladesh
Islamic group, Jamatul Mujahideen, claimed responsibility for setting
off about 500 small bombs across Bangladesh, that killed two people
and injured 100.
3 Oct 2005 – Suspected Islamist
militants from Jamaat-ul-mujahideen and Jagrata muslim janata
Bangladesh killed two people and wounded 15 when they hurled five
bombs at a court building in three districts outside Dhaka.
17 Sept 2006 – Bomb blast in Khulna.
1 Nov 2006 – Security alert along the
Indian Bangladesh border.
15 Nov 2006 – A bomb attack on a
mosque wounded ten people in a Bangladesh village.
2013 – Documents and records.
Bangladesh had the 8th largest population on earth. Bigger
than Russia or Japan. (The blood telegram. Gary J Bass (c)2013 US).
2013 – The Rana plaza collapse in
Dhaka. 1,129 people were killed and more than 2,500 injured, some
people were paralyzed. Toronto Star Canada article. Tanney boys, the
Rana plaza tragedy. Bangladesh leather garment factory. (The money
mafia. A world in crisis. Paul T Hellyer. (c)2014 US).
22 May 2013 – Evictions of indigenous
people in Bangladesh. Land grabs. AIPP.
21 April 2014 – Save Bangladesh from
mafia's. The new nation Dhaka India. Justice, mafia.
1 Aug 2014 – Orphans homeless poor.
Dhaka Elizabeth Kulze, photos.
30 Aug 2014 – Bangladesh’s
anti-crime force is accused of abducting missing people. Zee news.
Dhaka.
23 Oct 2014 – Traffickers use
abduction and prison ships to fuel Asian slave trade. Bangladesh and
Rohingya survivors have said. Smuggling boats and abductions. Reuters
31 Oct 2014 – Human traffickers in
the Bay of Bengal, Bangladeshi’s. Fishing boats. Teknaf Bangladesh
on the 18th of Oct 2014, Human trafficking.Wall street
journal.
10 Dec 2014 – Bangladesh protests.
Dhaka. People who went missing during a violent crackdown on the
political opposition, protests are a demand for justice. Channel news
Asia.
2015 – no date. Nomita Halder works
for the government of Bangladesh. She did her MA in political science
at the uni of Canterbury in New Zealand.
23 Jan 2015 – Saudi Arabia lifts a
2008 ban Asian workers from Bangladesh. Bangladesh news. Six year ban
on hiring workers from Bangladesh.
28 March 2015 – Police say ten people
are dead in a stampede. Dhaka. At least ten people were killed and
dozens injured. Lanpalbandh at a Hindu gathering. NZ Herald. AP.
15 April 2015 – Secret documents
shine light on GCSB spying in Bangladesh. New Zealand had shared
intel, collected Bangladesh. NZ Herald.
15 April 2015 – New Zealand is
involved in spying on Bangladesh. Stuff.co.nz. The Intercept US.
16 April 2015 – Secret documents
shine light on GCSB spying in Bangladesh. New Zealand has shared
intel, collected by surveillance Bangladesh, despite that countries.
NZ Herald.
16 April 2015 – New Zealand is
involved in spying on Bangladesh. New Zealand has been involved in
spying ops in Bangladesh. Sharing intel with the US, part of its
global. Stuff.co.nz.
17 April 2015 – Joseph Fitsanakis.
Intel news. Snowden documents reveal New Zealand spy program, in new
documents released by Edward Snowden. Extensive intel collection op
in Bangladeh, operated by New Zealand the US and Indian
collaboration.
25 April 2015 – Two people are dead
and more than 100 injured in Bangladesh from the Nepal earthquake. NZ
Herald. Dhaka AP. Dhaka Tibune.
26 April 2015 – Dhaka, a clothing
factory in Savar on the outskirts of Dhaka. At least 50 people are
injured after the Nepal earthquake. A stampede at a garment factory.
AFP. Yahoo news.
26 April 2015 – Four people were
killed in Bangladesh from the Nepal earthquake. Swissinfo.ch Reuters.
Sharma.
1 May 2015 – A leaked British home
office memo spoke of population control and contraception. $1.1
million Benneton company evenually gave for the collapsed Rana plaza
in Bangladesh. An overdue compensation fund for 1,134 victims of the
tragedy. Compared to the $121 million the Bennete company spent each
year on advertising about global injustice. (Private Eye mag. 1 May
2015 BBC UK).
9 May 2015 – Three human traffickers
were killed by police in a gunfight in Bangladesh. Three human
traffickers were killed during a police raid on a meeting of people
smugglers at Cox's bazar south Bangladesh bordering Myanmar. Four
police were injured in the raid. The Rakyat Post.
16 May 2015 – Since Nov 2014 20,000
to 25,000 people have fled persecution in Myanmar and poverty in
Bangladesh. Thousands are currently stranded at sea, turned away from
Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia. PBS news hour.
17 May 2015 – Bangladesh 14 people
were kidnapped and forced into an Asian migrant boat. Rescued 14 year
old Bangladeshi Absaruddin at a confinement area in the fishing town
of Kuala Langsa in Aceh province Indonesia.16 May 2015. The Straits
Times.
18 May 2015 – Indonesia's Aceh
province. An influx of migrants from Myanmar/Burma and Bangladesh.
BBC UK.
18 May 2015 – Refugees killed in
fight for food. The 700 rescued migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh
are being processed by Indonesia at the port of Langra on the island.
Radio NZ
18 May 2015 – Thai palace firm on
turning away boat people from Myanmar/Burma and Bangladesh. 6,000
Bangladeshi and Royingya migrants are adrift on boats in southeast
Asian seas. Abandoned by smuggglers. Inquirer.net.
18 May 2015 – Some Bangladeshi
migrants rescued from sea. Ahran. Off the Myanmar coast.
25 May 2015 – More than 700
Bangladeshis who arrived in Indonesia are to be sent home. Economic
migrants. ABC online.
26 May 2015 – More than 3,000
migrants from Bangladesh and Myanmar landed in Indonesia and
Malaysia. Nightmares at sea. New York Times.
12 June 2015 – Bangladesh human
traffickers rely on silence and extortion. Migrants in south east
Asia coming from southern Bangladesh. Al Jezeera America.
22 June 2015 – Bangladesh government
endorsing human trafficking. Bangladesh news. Refugees and migrants
RMMRU. Chairperson Tasneem Siddiqui. Government is endorsing human
trafficking for remittance inflow.
24 Oct 2015 – A series of bomb blasts
in Bangladesh injured 90 people at a Shiite procession. Twitter.
Sputnik.
27 Nov 2015 – Islamic State claimed
responsibility for an attack on a Shiite mosque. One person is dead
and three people are wounded. Reuters. Dhaka. Ruma Paul.
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 16th
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 16th
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.
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