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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 345

Mehmet Guzel

Security officers check the site where two attackers were killed outside a courthouse in Istanbul, Turkey, February 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
February 6, 2024, 6:30 pm
One dead, five injured in shooting attack on Turkey’s largest courthouse
Authorities shoot both assailants dead, claim they were part of the Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party-Front
By andrew wilks and Mehmet Guzel
American caver Mark Dickey, left, 40, talks to a colleague inside the Morca cave near Anamur, southern Turkey, Sept. 7, 2023. (Turkish Government Directorate of Communications via AP)
September 8, 2023, 3:33 pm
Rescuers may soon try to extract US explorer stuck in Turkey cave after he fell ill
Mark Dickey became sick with stomach bleeding 3,000 feet deep inside Taurus Mountains; researcher has sufficiently recovered that process to move him out can begin, official says
By Mehmet Guzel and Khalil Hamra
Syrian women weep next to bodies lying on the back of a truck on February 7, 2023, in the town of Jandaris, in the rebel-held part of Aleppo province, as a search operation continues following a deadly earthquake (Mohammed AL-RIFAI / AFP)
February 7, 2023, 12:13 pm
Quake toll passes 5,000 as rescue efforts in Turkey, Syria hampered by aftershocks
Teams continue to search through unstable structures, with temperatures below freezing; survivors seek shelter wherever they can; health facilities in northern Syria overwhelmed
By Mehmet Guzel, GHAITH ALSAYED and Suzan Fraser
Men search for people among the debris in a destroyed building in Adana, Turkey, February 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
February 6, 2023, 10:55 pm
‘Can anyone hear me?’: Rescuers search for survivors beneath rubble in Turkey, Syria
Tragedy unfolds as darkness, rain and cold envelop the region devastated by powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake and at least one more that hit hours later; over 3,800 confirmed dead
By Mehmet Guzel and ZEYNEP BILGINSOY
A relative of a missing miner reacts while waiting in front of the state-owned TTK Amasra Muessese Mudurlugu mine in Amasra, in the Black Sea coastal province of Bartin, Turkey, Oct. 15, 2022 (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
October 15, 2022, 8:33 am
Death toll rises to 40 in Turkey coal mine blast; 1 miner still missing
11 injured and hospitalized, while 58 others managed to get out of the mine on their own or were rescued unharmed; Erdogan to visit scene of accident
By Mehmet Guzel and ZEYNEP BILGINSOY
Cars queue to cross the border from Russia to Finland at the Vaalimaa border check point in Virolahti, Finland, September 23, 2022. (Sasu Makinen/Lehtikuva via AP)
September 24, 2022, 3:23 am
Miles of traffic piles up on Russia’s borders as men flee military call-up
Potential conscripts fill up flights to seek refuge abroad, including in Israel; Belarussian security forces reportedly tracking down deserters
By Khalil Hamra and Mehmet Guzel
Tourists wait to be evacuated from smoke-engulfed Mazi area as wildfires rolled down the hill toward the seashore, in Bodrum, Mugla, Turkey, Sunday, Aug. 1, 2021. (AP Photo/Emre Tazegul)
August 2, 2021, 1:39 am
Tourists, villagers evacuated by boat as wildfires ravage Turkish resorts
Death toll from five days of massive wildfires rises to eight; EU sending firefighting planes; riot-control water cannons drafted to help fight blazes
By Mehmet Guzel and ZEYNEP BILGINSOY
Rescue workers, who were trying to find survivors of an earthquake, surround Ayda Gezgin after they pulled the young girl out alive from the rubble of a collapsed apartment in the Turkish coastal city of Izmir, November 3, 2020, (AFAD via AP)
November 3, 2020, 12:11 pm
4 days after quake, Turkish rescuers pull girl, 3, alive from collapsed building
Rescue worker says he was sifting through rubble when he heard a scream, found child in cramped space next to dishwasher in remains of toppled eight-floor structure
By Mehmet Guzel and Suzan Fraser
A man waves a Turkish flag outside the Byzantine-era Hagia Sophia, in the historic Sultanahmet district of Istanbul, Friday, July 24, 2020. (AP Photo/Omer Kuscu)
July 24, 2020, 12:05 pm
Thousands attend prayers as Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia reopens as a mosque
Erdogan and 500 dignitaries due to join first Muslim service in 86 years at site, which had been one of Christendom’s most significant cathedrals
By Mehmet Guzel and Suzan Fraser
Turkey's Defense Minister Hulusi Akar, third right, attends a funeral ceremony for Halil Ibrahim Akkaya, one of dozens of Turkish soldiers killed in Syria, in Bahce, Osmaniye, Turkey, Feb. 28, 2020. (AP)
February 29, 2020, 6:07 am
Turkey, Russia talk amid spiraling tensions in Syria as migrants push west
NATO and UN urge deescalation after dozens of Turkish troops killed in airstrike; nearly 1 million flee Idlib violence, hundreds skirmish with Greek police at border
By Mehmet Guzel and andrew wilks
Rescue members and firefighters work around the wreckage of a plane after it skidded off the runway at Istanbul's Sabiha Gokcen Airport, in Istanbul, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020. A plane skidded off the runway Wednesday at Istanbul’s Sabiha Gokcen Airport, crashing into a field and breaking into pieces. Passengers were seen evacuating through cracks in the plane and authorities said dozens have been injured. (Ismail Coskun/IHA via AP)
February 6, 2020, 4:51 am
Airliner skids, breaks into three parts in Istanbul; 3 dead, 179 injured
Rescuers searching for one person still missing from crash of aircraft operated by low-cost carrier Pegasus Airlines; officials say major tragedy averted
By Suzan Fraser and Mehmet Guzel
Turkish soldiers on a truck drive back from Syria, in the border town of Akcakale, Sanliurfa province, southeastern Turkey, October 18, 2019. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)
November 1, 2019, 1:42 pm
Turkey, Russia begin joint patrols in northern Syria
Troops, armored vehicles and drones deployed along a 110-kilometer route where Syrian Kurdish fighters were forced to withdraw following Ankara incursion
By Mehmet Guzel
Turkish-backed Syrian opposition fighters on an armoured personnel carrier drive to cross the border into Syria, in Akcakale, Sanliurfa province, southeastern Turkey, October 18, 2019. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)
October 19, 2019, 3:27 pm
Syrian Kurdish forces and Turkey exchange blame for continued fighting
Clashes reported in key border town of Ras al-Ayn as Turkish interior minister says 41 suspected jihadists who fled detention camp have been recaptured
By Mehmet Guzel and Sarah El Deeb
This picture taken on October 18, 2019 from the Turkish side of the border in Ceylanpinar shows smoke rising from the Syrian town of Ras al-Ain on the first week of Turkey's military operation against Kurdish forces. (Ozan KOSE / AFP)
October 18, 2019, 10:49 am
Fighting in Kurdish-held Syrian town resumes despite ceasefire
Shelling and billowing smoke seen around Ras al-Ayn, accompanied by sound of gunfire
By Mehmet Guzel
A Turkish-backed Syrian rebel watches as smoke billows from the border town of Ras al-Ayn on October 12, 2019. (Nazeer Al-khatib/AFP)
October 12, 2019, 4:55 pm
Turkish forces claim to capture center of key Syrian border town; Kurds deny it
War monitor group also says Erdogan’s troops enter heart of Ras al-Ayn, marking most significant gain since invasion began; Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces say they’re still there
By Mehmet Guzel
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