Turkish Air Force

A Turkish-made basic training aircraft called the Hürku?, which was designed and manufactured by Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI), set a record high speed of 659 kilometers per hour on Feb. 28 in a test flight in Ankara. 

The two-seat Hürku? began a dive from 27,000 feet (9,000 meters) at the test site, reaching a top speed of 659 km per hour during the dive. 

Former DPS party chair Lyutvi Mestan has said he is ready for a "deep conversation" about the oligarchs that have dominated Bulgaria for years, but has added "Prime Ministers" should also be involved.

Mestan on Sunday did an interview with private bTV station after launching his political project, Democrats for Responsibility, Solidarity and Tolerance (DOST), a day earlier.

Lyutvi Mestan, the expelled leader of Bulgaria's predominantly ethnic Turk Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS), said on Saturday that his new political project, DOST, will be 'a radical, pro-NATO and pro-EU party'.

Turkey's leading defense system producer ASELSAN has handed over its newly developed and locally produced land-based radar electronic attack system KORAL to the Turkish Air Force.

A handing over ceremony was held at the defense company's Gölba?? facility in the capital Ankara, attended by Turkish Air Force commander Abidin Ünal.        

Having been left largely in the cold, Ankara is now trying to get back into the game in Syria in order to promote its security interests in the north of the country. It continues, however, to tread on thin ice. 

Turkey seems set to be dragged further into Syria's quagmire after a heinous attack in Ankara on Feb. 17 left 28 dead and 61 wounded.

Turkish fighter jets conducted a large-scale aerial campaign on Feb. 17 targeting outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) positions in northern Iraq.

Turkish Air Force jets targeted a group of 70 militants including senior PKK leaders in the Haftanin region in northern Iraq.

European football's governing body UEFA has opened disciplinary proceedings against Lokomotiv Moscow midfielder Dmitri Tarasov for wearing a T-shirt praising Russian President Vladimir Putin after a Europa League match in Istanbul. 

'The Boys are Dead: The Roboski Massacre and the Kurdish Question in Turkey' by Frederike Geerdink (Gomidas Institute, $22, 196 pages)

'The Boys are Dead: The Roboski Massacre and the Kurdish Question in Turkey' by Frederike Geerdink (Gomidas Institute, $22, 196 pages)