November 2015: turkey

4 March 2006 – Turkey launched criticism against receiving a Hamas delegation led by Damascus based, Tehran backed, Khaled Meshaal to Ankara. UN secretary general Kofi Annan heaped praise on the Turkish position towards Hamas, to foreign minister Abdullah Gul in Dohar Qatar. Ehud Olmert called the Turkish PM to thank him for the position taken and the messages conveyed to the Hamas delegation that came to Ankara. (Hamas al-Jaafari Sadr contacts Engiz Landar the new Anatolian).

31 July 2006 – Bomb hits Turky's ruling party site, no one was hurt. Jihadis about to enter Turkey on their way to Lebanon. Iranian volunteer fighters in support of Hezbollah. Bomb was hurled at the AKPs Istanbul branch.

9 August 2006 – A suspicious person was detained outside General staff HQ with two rifles and a pistol.

9 Aug 2006 – Turkish police seize 302kg heroin, Istanbul airport. BBC London.

21 August 2006 – Massive explosion in natural gas pipeline from Iran to Turkey.

11 September 2006 – Four consecutive bombs shook two of Turkey’s coastal resorts last week. Turkish authorities blamed the PKK for the situation which left three people dead and dozens injured, including ten British tourists. The PKK has fought a 15 year war with the Turkish government trough the 1980’s and 90’s which left 30,000 people dead. Declaring a ceasefire in 1999 after the imprisonment of its leader Abdullah Ocalan the PKK whose ruler allowed thousands to retreat to the northern Iraq Zubeyir Aydar head of the Kongra-Gel the political wing of the PKK. (Time mag 11 sept 2006 targets old conflicts. Andrew Purvis).

17 September 2006 – More explosives were found in Turkey.

9 October 2006 – Izmir police seized four kg of explosives. PKK blamed.

27 November 2006 – Turkish police on alert due to lost c-4 would make a 5kt explosion perhaps used during papal visit to Turkey. Nazif Yuksel Turkey’s anti-terror chief of police intelligence services said 5,000 tons of c-4 explosives belonging to the Iraqi defence ministry had been lost. Turkey special services arrested extremists who prepared an attack against Catholic cardinal. No details of the identity or nationality of those arrested.

5 March 2007 – Turkey announces a long range air and missile defence system program. www.defencetalk.com Also Korea competing with France for tank exports to Turkey.

20 March 2007 – Is Turkey moving away from the west? www.todayszaman.com.

29 March 2007 – One person was killed and ten others injured in a gas tank explosion at a resort hotel in Turkey. (CNN breaking news).

22 August 2007 – Iraq will begin exporting oil through Turkey in a few weeks reported Reuters citing Iraqi oil minister Hussein Sharistani. Exports will begin at 500,000 bpd said Sharastani. A special security force will be deployed to guard the pipeline which runs from Kirkuk to Baiji. (Stratfor intelligence summary).

29 August 2007 – For the first time since the founding of Turkey more than 80 years ago, an Islamic political force controls all of the key civilian institutes of the state. A former Islamist was elected as Turkeys 11^th president. Abdullah Gul aged 56. ( Stratfor morning intelligence brief. Geopolitical diary).

November 2007 – General elections, Turkey wanting to join the European Union. (9645khz VOA 2.47am NZ time. 27 Jan 2007 world news now).

2008 – The tsohar was a light crystal used by Noah to light his ark during the great flood. In habre tsohar light. Preciious gems, old testament story of the deluge. Genesis 6.16. (Atlantis and other lost worlds. Frank Joseph (c)2008 UK).

2010 – In 2010 Dr Cokers shelter assisted 100 women, victims of sex trafficking in Turkey. In Turkey the government runs the brothels. Help for victims of sex trafficking is not allowed. (Slavery inc. Lydia Cacho ©2010 UK).

8 March 2010 – A 6 earthquake Basyurt in Elazig east of Ankara (Aljazeera 15 Oct 2013).

27 January 2011 – Turkeys growing ties with the Arab world by Amberin Zaman BBC.

1 May 2011 – Missing person when 46 years old. Rosario Ganzon Canare. From the Phlippines. Now aged 51 years. Interpol.

23 Oct 2011 – A 7.2 earthquake 200 people dead. (Aljazeera 15 Oct 2013).

23 Oct 2011 – In Van a 7.2 earthquake 604 people dead. (Hindustan Times 2 April 2014).

23 Oct 2011 – In Van a 7.2 earthquake 200 people were killed and 1,000 people were injured Ercis. (ABC Australia 6 Feb 2013).

12 November 2011 – Turkey earthquake death toll rises. Two journalists among those killed. Ivan Watson and Gul Tuysuz CNN.

June 2012 – Turkey now a theatre for the West and Russia dispute on Syria. Burak Ege Bekdil. Ankara. In June 2012 Russian air defence sytems in Syria downed a Turkish RF-4 surveillance aircraft. Defence news.

10 October 2012 – Sex slavery nets Turkish’s occupied Cyprus $12.98 million by A Papapostolou Greek reporter ANSA.

14 October 2012 – Turkish megamosque in Germany sparks controversy by Erick Stakelbeck CBN news terror analyst Colonge Germany.

15 October 2012 – Refugees to Turkey top 100,000 by Joe Parkinson in Istanbul and Ayla Albayrak in Hatay province Turkey. The Wall street journal.

15 October 2012 – NATO must offer Turkey military support in Syria crisis by Joya Benitez Christian science monitor.

15 October 2012 – Global investing Golden time for Turkey by Sujata Rao Reuters.

15 October 2012 – Turkey becomes entangled by Dr Mordechai Kedar The Jewish Press.

16 October 2012 – Another Syrian bound plane ordered to land. By Gulsen Solaker and Ozge Ozbilgin Stuff.co.nz

16 October 2012 – Turkey starts building a water pipeline to northern Cyprus. By Selcan Hacaoglu Bloomberg.

19 October 2012 – update 3-blast halts Iran gas flow to Turkey 28 troops hurt, sabotage operation. By Orhan Coskun Ankara Reuters.

22 October 2012 – Committee to protect journalists press freedom news. Mission journal first of two CPJ delegation visits to Turkey by Jean Paul Marthoz. Journalists in jail in Turkey.

22 October 2012 – Iranian cash is flooding into Istanbul by Adam Taylor business insider.

23 October 2012 – Turkey seizes five tons of marijuana near Iran border Istanbul worth $2 million. By Ece Toksabay, Nick Tattersall and Micheal Roddy. Reuters.

23 October 2012 – Iran may be using Dubai (UAE) to hide the gold its trading with Turkey. By Joshua Berlinger Business insider.

29 October 2012 – Turkey targets $100 billion Arab world trade in five years. Realignment from Europe to the Middle East by Peter Shaw Smith. Gulf Business.

29 October 2012 – Turkey trades gold to Iran via Dubai (UAE) Iran sells oil and gas to Turkey. The lobe Mail Reuters.

30 October 2012 – Gold being remonetised as banks in Turkey target gold worth $302 billion. Business insider. Goldcore bullion and wealth management company.

30 October 2012 – New jobs for Ugandans in Turkey. Mahmut Arslan president of Hak-it Turkish trade union signed on behalf of the Turkish government by Patrick Jaramofi. New vision Uganda.

6 November 2012 – Why Turkey should be tough on Iran by Can Kasapoglu The Jerusalem Post.

7 November 2012 – Turkey may deploy patriot missiles near Syria by Neil MacFarquhar and Rick Gladstone Beirut Lebanon New York Times.

18 Nov 2013 – Gate to Hell. Rossella Lorenzi. Kerberos or Cerberus a three headed watchdog of hell in Greek mythology. Archeology in Turkey. A cave in ancient Phrygin city of Hierapoks, Pamukkah. Pluto's cave to the underworld, Greek and Roman history. (National geographic. Andrew Curry 5 Oct 2015).

20 Dec 2013 – Disappeared in Kayseri Turkey. From Surabaya Indonesia. Interpol. Missing persons. Yazid Ulwani Falahuddin aged 19.

4 June 2014 – Selcuk Akar. Missing person. Interpol.

12 July 2014 – A boat with illegal migrants sinks near Turkey. Trend news agency. 37 people are missing.

20 Oct 2014 – Daily Sabah. Turks protest the adoption of Turkish children by German families. Dusseldorf. Corruption and excuses to take children away from their birth parents in Turkey and give them to German families. . Thousands of children each year. Law of 2012. 600,000 adopted children.

21 Oct 2014 – The corruption to boost all corruption. Hurriyet Daily News. Corruption investigation of four members and other prominent people close to the government.

26 Dec 2014 – Mafia wars hit Istanbul streets, 3 people are dead. Daily Sabah. Hurriyet Daily news. Vedat Sahin the brother of Mafia boss Sedat Sahin was killed in a hail of bullets in Ferdi Topal.

27 Dec 2014 - Mafia killings in Istanbul. Hurriyet Daily. The separate targeted hits in one day in Istanbul, 3 people are dead in late 24 Dec 2014. Amsterdam based Mafia and drug trafficking. Shot with kalashnikovs.

11 Jan 2015 – Inhabitat site. Archeologists find a 5,000 year old underground city. Michelle Kennedy Hogan. Cappalocia region of Turkey. Hittite times 1,700 BC. Once part of the Roman empire. Churches were also found in the underground city.

14 Jan 2015 – The government tries to hush up arms shipment to Syria and ban the internet. Cihan news agency CNA. Turkish spy agency and arms shipments to Syrian groups including al Qaeda.

15 Jan 2015 – Turkeys dirty secret. Al Qaeda. Cihan news agency CNA. Questions about Turkey, al Qaeda and other terror groups in Syria.

18 Jan 2015 – Paris France, terror attack. The Turkish mafia were paid to smuggle terrorist to America. Mirror UK. Tens of thousands of dollars paid by the Islamic State. Hayat Boumeddine into Syria.

26 Jan 2015 – Turkey sees a resurgence in the Mafia. Today’s Zaman. Mafia murders in Istanbul, terror attacks and unsolved murders, corruption.

27 Jan 2015 – Facebook blocks Turkish users from viewing pages, seen as offensive to the Muslim Prophet . National Post. Blocked facebook network.

29 Jan 2015 – Turkey’s population exceeds 77.5 million. 2014 results. Turkey will be ready to join the EU in two years.

10 July 2015 – A NATO missile system was hacked by a foreign source. A Patriot missile system in Turkey. NATO, under German federal military defence command, was hacked. (Intel news Joseph Fitsanakis).

13 July 2015 –A corruption investigation went public. High level govt officials were involved. Wiretapping and a cover up. Archives involving leaks on twitter in 2014. Todays Zaman Ankara.

13 Ju;ly 2015 – Archives relating to a corruption investigation were destroyed. Hard drive, . The Karsi news 11 July 2015. Hard drives that stored archives of the investigation. They were dismantled and destroyed. Govt officials were implicated in corruption 17 Dec and 25 Dec 2013, this went public. Todays Zaman Ankara.

29 July 2015 – New York Times world. Twitter. Pres Recep Tayyip Erdogen of Turkey visited China. Bilatral trade is growing. China sold Turkey some weapons. Yin Gang.

30 July 2015 – Archeologists uncover a settlement dated to the dawn of civilization. In turkey the excavation of an ancient city from Neolithic times. 7500 BC to 8000 BC. Popular Archeology.

31 July 2015 – Stratfor. Twitter. Turkey has suspended talks with Russia on the Turkish stream pipeline project. Trend news agency.

26 Aug 2015 – Sabotage of a gas pipeline which runs from Azerbaijan to Turkey. Explosion sabotage. (Gary Walton. The big wobble).

14 Sept 2015 – New excavations show life in Anatolia 7,000 years ago. Anadolu agency. Van in Turkey. The Van castle, Ottomans history of ancient Christians and Ottomans. Istanbul uni, the old city of Van, was destroyed by Russians in world war one. Cemeteries unearthed. Daily Sabah.

24 Sept 2015 – Turkey's tourist site of Bodrum was flooded. Cars were seen floating in the streets. (The big wobble. Gary Walton G+).

26 Sept 2015 – Massive underground city found in the Cappedocia region of Turkey, tunnels and undeground rooms. Under a Byzantine era fortress in Nevsehir Turkey. Jennifer Pinkowski. Underground in 2013, a 300 year old paper trail, the Ottomans. Tunnels in Nevsehir in 2014. Tunnels and lamp oil, christians. National geographic.

1 Oct 2015 – Xinhua China. A traffic accident in Ankara killed 11 people and injured 8. Hurriyat.

9 Oct 2015 – Open the flood gates. Slate. Dams in southeast Turkey to be used as weapons of war. Alex Kennen. A dam close to Iraqi border Hakkari Turkey bordering Iraq and Iran. Security dams for military purposes in Hakkari. Iraqi border PKK the Kurds in Iraq.

10 Oct 2015 – Xinhua China. At least 20 people were killed and 100 people were injured in Ankara. Two explosions at a train station, which is badly damaged. Severe suicide explosions.

10 Oct 2015 – A Russian jet was just shot down by Turkey, after it flew over Turkish airspace. Scott Campbell. The Expess UK. A Mig-29.

10 Oct 2015 – al Arabiya. Explosions rocked Ankara, many casualties. Two explosions, fatalities. Doga news agency. Two blasts near Ankara train station killed dozens of people. A suicide bombing. Int Business Times India. At least 20 people are dead in the twin blasts. Severe blasts. CNN Blasts near a train station.

10 Oct 2015. Ankara Turkey. KSPR ABC. The two Ankara train station blasts were so powerful that they rocked highrise buldings.

10 Oct 2015 – At least 20 people are dead in the terrorist attacks. Hindustan Times. Turkey's PM Ahmet Davutoglu. Terrorist suicide bombings. Severe blasts. CNN.

10 Oct 2015 – Blasts in Ankara, at least 30 people were killed and 126 people were injured. News Tribe. Two back to back explosions in Ankara.

16 Oct 2015 – British prince Edward visited Istanbul orphans school. The earl of Wessex, prince Edward visited Istanbul,s only school for orphans. Daily Sabah.

16 Oct 2015 – Noah's ark found. Fox news.

20 Oct 2015 – A hoard of suicide vests and arms were found in Ankara, Nation.com Pakistan.

21 Oct 2015 - 4,000 year old hidden tunnels have been found under an ancient castle in Turkey. Excavations at Geval castle in Anatolia. Secret tunnels by the Hittites 4,000 years ago. Closed with a vault. Care 2. Marty. Ancient origins.

29 Oct 2015 – A British tourist who was afraid of the Turkish mafia, dies after falling out a hospital window. Mirror UK. Daily Mail.

15-16 Nov 2015 – Obama is going to Turkey for the G20 summit. Mate Sohtaoglu. Twitter.

27 Nov 2015 – Turkey charges two newspaper editors with spying. An Istanbul court charges of 'divulging state secrets' the editors are in custody. Arutz Sheva.

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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.

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

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

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).

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).

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).

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).

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.

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

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).

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)

1924-28 – 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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

November 2015

Sunday, November 29, 2015

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Thursday, November 26, 2015

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Wednesday, November 25, 2015

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Tuesday, November 24, 2015

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