Hazinedar

F-16 taking off to prevent the presidential plane

When staff pilot captains İlker Hazinedar and Oğuz Alper Emrah were assigned on a flight mission, it was nearly midnight. They did not know the flight routes and targets. Akıncı Air Base Operations Commander Staff Col. Ahmet Özçetin had said, "You take off, the information will come while you're in the air."

Loaded F-16 taking off to prevent the presidential plane

When staff pilot captains İlker Hazinedar and Oğuz Alper Emrah were assigned on a flight mission, it was nearly midnight. They did not know the flight routes and targets. Akıncı Air Base Operations Commander Staff Col. Ahmet Özçetin had said, "You take off, the information will come while you're in the air."

Be?ikta? Municipality changes street name to 'peace' in Turkish and Kurdish

Istanbul's Be?ikta? Municipality has change the name of a street in the district to "Bar??-A?iti," meaning "peace" in Turkish and Kurdish. The move comes as an expression of solidarity with the municipality in the violence-hit southeastern province of Hakkari.