Beşiktaş

UK Ambassador to Turkey becomes Beşiktaş member

U.K. Ambassador to Ankara, Richard Moore, a dedicated Beşiktaş fan, has become an official member of the club, according to a statement on the Black Eagle's official website on Sept. 21.

Beşiktaş Chairman Fikret Orman presented the top British diplomat in the country with his club card for membership to the Beşiktaş General Assembly.

Istanbul police detain planners of deadly PKK bomb attacks

Police have detained the planners of two deadly bomb attacks carried out by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in 2016 in Istanbul. 

Istanbul Governor Vasip Şahin stated that 44 people were detained in anti-terror operations on July 13, including those who planned deadly car bomb attacks in Beşiktaş and Vezneciler last year.

Fugitive ISIL suspect in Reina attack case captured but released in Denmark: Report

Danish police captured but then released on June 29 a suspected Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militant who is accused of providing the weapon Abdulkadir Masharipov used to kill 39 people at Istanbul's Reina nightclub on Jan. 1, Turkish daily Karar reported on July 12.

Presidency shares details of coup victims' monument in front of Ankara presidential complex

The Turkish Presidency has revealed the design theme and architectural information about a monument built to commemorate the victims of the July 15, 2016 coup attempt, which will be inaugurated on July 16 in front of the presidential palace in the capital Ankara.

Istanbul nightclub ISIL attacker's phone number registered in suspect's phone

Authorities have determined that the phone number of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) attacker who killed 39 people in an Istanbul nightclub on Jan. 1 was registered in the cellphone of another ISIL suspect, who appeared for in a trial the first time in the Mediterranean province of Antalya on July 10. 

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