Relations have further been degraded with the downing of a Turkish plane as well as Turkey closing it's embassy in Damascus.

While attempting to board a plane back to the US with his girlfriend, Billy is arrested by Turkish police on high alert due to fear of terrorist attacks.

Turkish Airlines Flight 981 was a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 that crashed outside Paris on March 3, 1974, killing all 346 people on board, the highest-ever death-count of any single plane crash with no survivors.

Just after Flight 981 passed over the town of Meaux, controllers picked up a distorted transmission from the plane ; the aircraft's pressurization and overspeed warnings were heard over the pilots ' words in Turkish, including the co-pilot saying " the fuselage has burst.

Part II of the book begins by going around the world, time zone to time zone, showing what different characters are doing all at the same time: Morris Zapp travelling ; Australian Rodney Wainright trying to write a conference paper ; Zapp's ex-wife Désirée trying to write a novel ; Howard Ringbaum trying to convince his wife Thelma to sleep with him on an airplane so he can join the Mile High Club ; Siegfried von Turpitz talking to Arthur Kingfisher about the new UNESCO chair of literary criticism ; Rudyard Parkinson plotting to get that chair ; Turkish Akbil Borak reading William Hazlitt to prepare for a visit by Swallow ; Akira Sakazaki translating English novelist Ronald Frobisher into Japanese ; Ronald Frobisher having breakfast ; Italian Fulvia Morgana ( a reference to Morgan le Fay ) meeting Morris Zapp on a plane ; and more .`

And, after becoming the right-hand man of Enver Pasha, he is sent by the latter to pave the way for a new Turkish Empire embracing `` the union of all Turks throughout Central Asia from Adrianople to the Chinese oases on the Silk Trade Route ''.

From all the Empire, war prisoners and deported people were sent to the city: these people were called " Sürgün " in Turkish ().

The German Embassy in Ankara had been vacant ever since the retirement of the previous ambassador Friedrich von Keller in November 1938, and Ribbentrop was only able to get the Turks to accept Papen as Ambassador when the Turkish Foreign Minister Şükrü Saracoğlu complained to Kroll in April 1939 about when the Germans were ever going to sent a new ambassador.

In July 1860, with European intervention threatening, the Turkish government tried to quiet the strife, but Napoleon III of France sent 7, 000 troops to Beirut and helped impose a partition: The Druze control of the territory was recognized as the fact on the ground, and the Maronites were forced into an enclave, arrangements ratified by the Concert of Europe in 1861.

Many Turkish soldiers joined him, he defeated and killed the veteran general Beyazid Pasha whom Murad had sent to fight him.

While Murad was besieging the city, the Byzantines, in league with some independent Turkish Anatolian states, sent the sultan's younger brother Mustafa ( who was only 13 years old ) to rebel against the sultan and besiege Bursa.

Ottoman-Somali cooperation against the Portuguese in the Indian Ocean reached a high point in the 1580s when Ajuuraan clients of the Somali coastal cities began to symphatize with the Arabs and Swahilis under Portuguese rule and sent an envoy to the Turkish corsair Mir Ali Bey for a joint expedition against the Portuguese.

The Turkish Army sent troops to fight in Korea, where they played pivotal roles at some points.

After the German-Soviet War broke out, the Turkish government sent a military delegation under Lieutenant General Ali Fuat Erden to the German Eastern Front and Germany.

A few days before the start of Operation Zitadelle, the Turkish government sent a military delegation under General Cemil Cahit Toydemir to Belgorod and observed the exercises of the 503rd Heavy Panzer Battalion and its equipment.

It sent the Turkish Brigade to South Korea and suffered 731 deaths in combat.

The state-run Turkish Radio and Television Corporation ( TRT ) started its 24-hour Kurdish television station on 1 January 2009 with the motto “ we live under the same sky .” The Turkish Prime Minister sent a video message in Kurdish to the opening ceremony, which was attended by Minister of Culture and other state officials.

Following this takeover, Mehmed sent many Turkish settlers into the area, but the old ethnic Laz, Armenian, and Greek communities remained.

Hayes was a young American student sent to a Turkish prison for trying to smuggle hashish out of Turkey.

In 568 a Turkish embassy was sent to Byzantine to propose an alliance and two pronged attack on the Sassanian Empire.

Palmerston argued for immediate decisive action ; the Royal Navy should be sent to the Dardanelles to assist the Turkish navy and that Britain should inform Russia of her intention to go to war with her if she invaded the principalities.

In 1480, Mehmet the Conqueror sent an Ottoman Turkish fleet to invade Rome under the command of Gedik Ahmet Paşa.

A minute force of little more than a division proper, just enough to forestall a possible Turkish redeployment eastwards, was to be sent west as the " Army of Epirus ", while the bulk of the army and artillery would embark on what would later be called " blitzkrieg " tactics against the Turks in the east.

" Smith claimed his master, a Turkish nobleman, sent him as a gift to his Greek mistress in Constantinople, who fell in love with Smith.

When a Christian boy was recruited under devşirme system, first he would be sent to selected Turkish families in the provinces to learn to speak Turkish, rules of Islam and customs and culture of Ottoman society.

Ahmed ibn Tulun was a Turkish Mamluk whose father was sent as a gift to the Abbasid Caliph al-Ma ' mun in ( 200H ./ 815 – 16 A. D .).

After the defeat of the Sultanate of Rum, Baiju freed David VII Ulu from Turkish imprisonment and sent him to Batu and Guyuk.

At the same time it could not be forgotten that he gave strong financial aid to King John Sobieski of Poland in their fight against the Turkish invaders.

In addition, the even more recent Turkish incursions into Anatolia and northern Syria were certainly viewed as devastating by Eastern Christian chroniclers, and it is plausible they were presented as such by the Byzantines to the Pope in order to solicit the aid of European Christians.

Later, he secretly recovers gold and silver from a sunken ship on the bottom of Marmorice Bay within the Ottoman Empire with the aid of pearl divers from Ceylon, narrowly escaping a Turkish warship at the end.

He claims to have no interest in the affairs of the world above, but occasionally intervenes to aid the oppressed, such as by giving salvaged treasure to Cretans who are revolting against their Turkish rulers and by saving ( both physically and financially ) a Ceylonese or Tamil pearl hunter who was the unfortunate victim of a diving accident, or by saving the castaways from drowning in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and covertly watching over the castaways in The Mysterious Island.

This led the United Kingdom to withdraw forces that had been earmarked to the alliance, and the United States Congress halted Turkish military aid despite two Presidential vetoes.

* Hours before the first ships transporting heavy United States military equipment to Turkey were supposed to reach port, the Turkish government announces that it will withhold approval to dock unless the United States increases a reciprocal $ 6 billion foreign aid grant to $ 10 billion.

Relations between Greece and Turkey have been improving since the Greek aid sent after the 1999 İzmit earthquake and the Turkish aid sent after the 1999 Athens earthquake.

In January 1918, General Allenby used five Australian pilots from No. 1 Squadron AFC to photograph a area in Palestine as an aid to correcting and improving maps of the Turkish front.

In March 1947, President Truman, a Democrat, asked the Republican controlled Congress to appropriate $ 400 million in aid to the Greek and Turkish governments, then fighting Communist subversion.

Rumelihisarı was built by Sultan Mehmed II between 1451 and 1452 in order to control the sea traffic on the Bosphorus strait and prevent aid from the Black Sea to reach Constantinople during the Turkish siege of the city in 1453, particularly from the Genoese colonies such as Caffa, Sinop and Amasra.

Already partially deaf, İnönü would simply turn off his hearing aid when Curzon launched into lengthy speeches denouncing the Turkish position.

There are two ongoing projects involving Turkish NGOs and EuropeAid, European Commission's external aid instrument, that touch their issues.

The Seljuk Turks of Alparslan conquered the area in 1064 AD ; but after his death, it was briefly recaptured by the king of Georgia with the help of the Byzantines, but by 1081 was in Turkish hands again when Saltukoğlu Beylik managed to take it back with the aid of Melikşah.

The local militia regiment of Żejtun was one of the first to engage the Ottoman forces in the initial stages of the Great Siege of 1565, but the town continued to suffer attacks by Turkish pirates up to 1614, when an attack by the Turks was repulsed without aid from other militias.

During the Korean War, Turkey sent a large number of troops to aid South Korea under the United Nations command, called the Turkish Brigade.

The source of the great wealth which subsequently enabled him to become the benefactor of his coreligionists and to aid the Austrian imperial house, especially during the Turkish wars, is unknown.

Their presence in the monument, ordered by Atatürk, points out to the military aid given by Vladimir Lenin during the Turkish War of Independence in 1920.

With the aid of his daughter, Abigail, he recovers some of his former assets and buys a Turkish slave, Ithamore, who appears to hate Christians as much as Barabas.

The regime of Crown Prince Abbas Mirza launched an attack on Ottoman Turkey under the Mohammad Ali Mirza Dowlatshah leadership due to Turkish aid to Azerbaijani rebels in Persia.

Furthermore, UNICEF has recognized BSO as UNICEF Turkey Goodwill Ambassador upon its efforts to aid children in need in various regions of the world, specifically for the two CDs released, donating money earned to the earthquake victims of İzmit earthquake in 1999 together with several concerts given, donating money earned to Pakistan earthquake victims and Turkish National Comitee for UNICEF campaigns such as Haydi Kızlar Okula.

However, the prince of Transylvania counted on the aid of the Habsburg Monarchy in his efforts that failed to arrive and Transylvania could not withstand the power of Turkish army due to the lack of outside support that ended in the resignation of Sigismund Báthory.