Police at Turkey's largest airport in Istanbul on Sunday fired warning shots at a motorbike that failed to stop at a security checkpoint, with the facility on high alert after the deadly June attack blamed on jihadists, local officials said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin met Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul on Monday, pushing forward ambitious joint energy projects on his first visit to Turkey since a crisis in ties.
At least 10 people were wounded Thursday when a bomb concealed in a motorbike exploded near a police station in Istanbul, in the latest attack to strike Turkey's increasingly tense largest city over the last year.
British police said they had charged two people with terrorism offences, including a woman accused of encouraging others to commit a terrorist offence in connection with a publication linked to a Turkish militant group.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the prime minister and a host of other Turkish leaders took part on Friday in an opening ceremony of a new bridge which connects the Asian and European sides of Istanbul.
Qatar Airways said that an aircraft that was forced to make an emergency landing at Istanbul's Ataturk airport on Thursday landed safely and that passengers had disembarked as normal.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived at a massive rally of hundreds of thousands of people in Istanbul on Sunday to protest last month's failed coup attempt by elements of the Turkish military.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan broke down in tears while speaking at the funeral of an old friend in Istanbul killed during the coup, images from Turkish television showed.
A total of 104 coup plotters were killed after a bid to bring down the Turkish government, the acting army chief said on Saturday. He also said many army commanders were taken by the coup plotters to "unknown locations".
Troops filed into Taksim Square uncertain of how they would be received. Before long, angry crowds had gathered to denounce them.
Forces loyal to the Turkish government fought on Saturday to crush the remnants of a military coup attempt which crumbled after crowds answered President Tayyip Erdogan's call to take to the streets and dozens of rebels abandoned their tanks.
Seventeen people including 11 Russians have been charged over the Istanbul airport attack, Dogan news agency reported Tuesday, bringing to 30 the total number charged over the suicide assault.
