Turkish witness Abdullah Catli testified Wednesday that West German security services offered him a large sum of money to support claims that Bulgaria was involved in the 1981 plot to kill Pope John ...

UNTIL a famous pile-up two years ago, Abdullah Catli was Turkey's best-known fugitive. His death in that crash, in the company of a senior policeman and a member of parliament, prompted a dismally ...

THE 1970s are remembered in Turkey for an eruption of violence so dramatic that only a military takeover could halt it. No politician was more associated with the blood-letting than Alpaslan Turkes, ...

Mehmet Agar was governor of Erzurum, a city in the east of Turkey, in 1992, and became Chief of Turkey’s Police Force in 1993. In December 1995 he was voted into parliament as an MP for the True Path ...

John Lennon, Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II were shot within a few months, and there were the usual political assassinations in 1981 — Egypt’s president Anwar Sadat, the president of Bangladesh, ...

Filming has begun for Çatlı, a biographical movie based on the life of Abdullah Çatlı, a controversial Turkish nationalist and former paramilitary figure. The film is directed by Onur Tan, with former ...

The movie about the life of Abdullah Catli, a scandalous figure in Turkish political life in the 1970s-1990s, contains episodes related to ASALA, reports Istanbul-based Armenian weekly Agos. The ...

... for daring to reveal that the country is run by spooks. The late Abdullah Catli must be having a good chuckle over this. Nothing has changed in the Turkish "deep ...