A magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck Istanbul at midday Wednesday, causing panic throughout Turkey's largest city, according to the country's Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD).
The CEO of Imam Khomeini Airport (IKA), Saeed Chalandari, says Tehran has operated 366 flights to and from Istanbul after the European Union (EU) imposed sanctions on Iran.
The spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry has condemned the Sunday afternoon blast on a street in Istanbul, Turkiye, which killed six and injured 81 others.
Dozens of people took to the streets in Turkey, calling on President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government to resign, after the lira crashed by 15 percent against the US dollar on Tuesday.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif left Tehran for Istanbul, Turkey, Monday morning to attend the 6th trilateral meeting between foreign ministers of Iran, Turkey and Azerbaijan.
An exclusive Iranian exhibition is scheduled to be held in Istanbul’s CNR Expo Center from October 25 to 28, Iran’s commercial attaché to Ankara said.
The gunman who killed 39 people in an Istanbul nightclub on New Year's Day in an attack claimed by Daesh appears to have been well versed in guerrilla warfare and may have trained in Syria, a newspaper report and a security source said on Tuesday; Reuters reported.
Iran has strongly condemned the suicide attack in Iraqi capital Baghdad and Sun. armed assault in a nightclub in Turkish city of Istanbul.
Police in Istanbul launched a manhunt on Sunday for a gunman who killed at least 39 people, many of them foreigners, at a nightclub packed with New Year's revelers, in an attack officials described as a terrorist act; Reuters reported.
Two bombs exploded less than a minute apart, killing 29 people and wounding 166 outside a soccer stadium in Istanbul on Saturday night, in a co-ordinated attack on police shortly after a match between two of Turkey's top teams; Reuters reported.
