diyarbakir

An explosion killing at least 4 and injuring many more has gone off this evening. Sad for all concerned.

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) advise against all travel to within 10 km of the border with Syria and to the city of Diyarbakir. The FCO advise against all but essential travel to: the remaining areas of Sirnak, Mardin, Sanliurfa, Gaziantep, Diyarbakir, Kilis and Hatay provinces...

Anyone know if you can fly direct from Dalaman to Diyarbakir? Thanks :)

According to Turkish tele tonight Police in Diyarbakir were being stoned by some young Kurdish kids. They responded by aiming a barrage of... ...footballs at them. Yep. Footballs. Apparently the kids then stopped stoning the police and started nutmeging them.

By Ercan Gun, Ufuk Koroglu Published: Thursday, August 11, 2005 zaman.com Turkish security have arrested Luia Sakra and Hamed Obysi, two Syrian nationals suspected of providing and fabricating the bombs used in the Istanbul attacks on 15-20 November 2003, which killed 62 people...