Place: Canakkale

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Turkey rounds up 1,300 migrants planning to cross to Greece

Turkish authorities rounded up some 1,300 migrants that they said were planning to sail to Greece from hideouts near secluded Aegean beaches and forests, hours after striking a deal with the EU on stemming refugee flows.

Tue, 01 Dec, 2015

Higgins attends Gallipoli commemoration

President Michael D Higgins yesterday joined Britain’s Prince Charles and Turkish president Tayyip Erdogan at commemorations to mark the 100th anniversary of the First World War battle on the Gallipoli peninsula.

Sat, 25 Apr, 2015

Travel digest

GET TO ALTON TOWERS BY HOOK OR BY SPOOK

Sat, 01 Oct, 2011

Turkish nationalist threatens to blow up ferry

Police have detained an armed man who briefly held up a ferry and threatened to blow it up in protest against pro-Armenian slogans chanted at a murdered journalist’s funeral, a provincial official said today.

Sun, 28 Jan, 2007