Evgenii Serebriakov, who allegedly carried out a car bomb attack in Russia’s capital Moscow, was captured in Türkiye on Wednesday, Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said.
Yerlikaya said on X that Russian Interpol officials contacted Türkiye’s Interpol/Europol Department at 10.30 a.m., reporting that Serebriakov had arrived in Türkiye on a Moscow-Bodrum flight. Russian Interpol officials said that the car bomb attack carried out in Moscow on Wednesday resulted in two injuries.
Read more…
Source: Anadolu Agency News
Related:
- YPG/PKK plants explosives in glass bottles in Northern Syria
November 1, 2019
Large number of explosives, mines defused during sweep and clear activities in Ras al-Ayn YPG/PKK terrorists have planted improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in glass bottles in areas they fled in northern Syria, said Turkish forces, who continue sweep and clear efforts in the region. Turkish Armed Forces and the Syrian National Army (SNA), a rebel group which ...
- Turkey clears mines, explosives in northern Syria
October 31, 2019
Turkish forces cleared mines and explosives in northern Syria on Thursday, the site of Turkey’s anti-terror Operation Peace Spring. Security forces defused mines and improvised explosive devices in Tal Abyad as efforts continue to return to normal life in the district with the Turkish military providing the basic needs of the population. Turkey launched Operation Peace Spring ...
- Explosion hits riot police bus in southern Turkey; 5 wounded
September 25, 2019
Turkey’s official news agency says a bomb exploded in southern Adana province, wounding five people. The governor’s office in Adana said Wednesday the explosion went off as a riot police bus passed. The statement said a police officer was among the wounded. Images of the explosion’s aftermath showed a badly damaged bus. Turkey has been hit by ...
- Turkish Army destroys seized explosives in Northern Iraq
September 16, 2019
Turkish security forces destroyed seized improvised explosive devices (IED) in northern Iraq Sunday, as part of the country’s ongoing counterterror Operation Claw-3. “In line with the successfully ongoing Operation Claw-3, a total of four IEDs were destroyed,” the Ministry of National Defense said in a statement. On Aug. 23, Turkey launched Operation Claw-3 in northern Iraq ...
- PKK roadside bomb kills 1 in southeast Turkey’s Hakkari
August 18, 2019
At least one civilian was killed Sunday in a roadside bomb explosion in Turkey’s southeastern Hakkari province, authorities said. In a statement, the provincial governor’s office said a vehicle was passing through the Çatalca neighborhood in Semdinli district when the improvised explosive device planted by PKK terrorists went off. A large counterterrorism operation was launched following the ...
- IED blast kills one in Turkey’s southeast
July 23, 2019
Two civilian vehicles on their way to pick up military personnel in Turkey’s southeastern Hakkari province were targeted by improvised explosive devices (IEDs) on Tuesday. The explosion killed one of the drivers and severely injured the other. The deceased was identified as Ilhami Celik, added the source who asked not to be named due to restrictions on ...
- Large amount of explosives seized at Turkey-Iran border
April 11, 2019
Turkish customs enforcement officers seized a large amount of explosives at the Turkish-Iranian border, officials said Thursday. According to a statement from the Trade Ministry, an Iranian citizen tried to cross the Esendere Customs Gate with a valid passport. He had six sacks and a suitcase with him, which he said, were filled with limes. The officers got ...
- Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland host NATO Allies for exercise ANAKONDA 2018
November 16, 2018
ANAKONDA 2018, a Polish-led multinational exercise, which began on 7 November, today completed its first week. The exercise involves around 12,500 troops in Poland and approximately 5,000 troops in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The exercise demonstrated the interoperability of the Polish Armed Forces with participating troops from 10 NATO Allies: Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, ...
- Mine detection dog saves Turkish soldiers before being killed by IED
April 19, 2018
A mine detection dog named “Hüner” died during counter-terror operations after an improvised explosive device (IED) he found went off in southeastern Turkey’s Siirt province on Wednesday. The eight-year-old dog reportedly saved the lives of Turkish Gendarmerie units during the mine clearing operations at Siirt’s Herekol Mountain. Hüner reacted after detecting the explosive, which had previously been ...
- Uighurs fighting in Syria take aim at China
December 23, 2017
Since 2013, thousands of Uighurs, a Turkic-speaking Muslim minority from western China, have traveled to Syria to train with the Uighur militant group Turkistan Islamic Party and fight alongside al-Qaida, playing key roles in several battles. Syrian President Bashar Assad’s troops are now clashing with Uighur fighters as the six-year conflict nears its endgame. But ...
- NATO forces take part in mine warfare exercise in Turkey
November 25, 2017
NUSRET-2017 drills kicked off in the Gulf of Saros on Saturday with the participation of naval, air and coast guard forces from Turkey and NATO member states as well as other observer countries. The mine warfare exercise, named after the famous minelayer Nusret, takes place in Canakkale and the Gulf of Saros on an annual basis, ...
- Istanbul police foil major ISIL bomb attack
October 28, 2017
Istanbul police have foiled a major Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) bomb attack and brought down two jihadist cells in the city. According to police, a car loaded with explosives and a bomb-laden motorcycle were found in the parking lot of a shopping mall in Istanbul’s Bayrampaşa district on Oct. 28. Anti-terror police launched ...
- Mechem making a mark with demining in Turkey
October 18, 2017
Mechem demining teams lifted more than 23 000 landmines over an eight-month period on Turkey’s eastern border – a task regarded as one of the most significant achievements yet in the field of humanitarian demining. Each of the potentially deadly devices was detected and removed by hand at a rate of more than 200 a day. ...
- 10 soldiers injured after ammunition depot catches fire near Turkey-Syria border
July 13, 2017
A fire triggered explosions in an ammunition depot early Thursday on the outskirts of the Kilis province near Turkey’s Syria border, slightly injuring 10 soldiers. Black smoke was seen rising from the city center of Kilis after explosions occurred in a temporary military base located only two kilometers away from an organized industrial zone near Kilis. The ...
- Turkish police catch five ISIL suicide bombers near Syrian border
June 24, 2017
Police have apprehended five suspected suicide bombers from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) on Turkey’s border with Syria, the governor’s office of the southern province of Hatay stated on June 24. “Five attackers who were sent to our country from Syria to carry out suicide bombings were caught in an operation on ...
- Syria says up to 5,000 Chinese Uighurs fighting in militant groups
May 11, 2017
Up to 5,000 ethnic Uighurs from China’s violence-prone far western region of Xinjiang are fighting in various militant groups in Syria, the Syrian ambassador to China said on Monday, adding that Beijing should be extremely concerned about it. China is worried that Uighurs, a mostly Muslim people who speak a Turkic language, have gone to Syria ...
- The £1bn of weapons flowing from Europe to Middle East
July 27, 2016
AEastern European countries have approved the discreet sale of more than €1bn of weapons in the past four years to Middle Eastern countries that are known to ship arms to Syria, an investigation has found. Thousands of assault rifles such as AK-47s, mortar shells, rocket launchers, anti-tank weapons and heavy machine guns are being routed ...