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2015 Russian Sukhoi Su-24 shootdown
shootdown of a Russian Sukhoi Su-24M bomber aircraft by Turkish Air Force F-16 fighter jets
Pan Am Flight 103
US transatlantic flight, bombed in 1988 over Scotland
Zimmermann telegram
1917 World War I telegram from Germany to Mexico proposing an alliance
1960 U-2 incident spy aircraft
aviation incident
assassination of Andrei Karlov
2016 murder of the Russian ambassador to Turkey
Ems dispatch
Prussian telegram and press release that incited the French Empire to start the Franco-Prussian War
¿Por qué no te callas?
rebuke by Juan Carlos I to Hugo Chavez
2015 Bamako hotel attack
terrorist attack in Radisson Blu, Bamako
poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal
2018 attempted murder in Salisbury, England, United Kingdom
United States diplomatic cables leak
2010–2011 release of 251,287 exchanges by WikiLeaks
2025 Trump–Zelenskyy meeting
bilateral meeting between USA and Ukraine on February 28, 2025
Corfu Channel incident
1946–48 altercations between the United Kingdom and Albania
Lavon Affair
1954 Israeli false flag operation in Egypt
We will bury you
quote by Soviet First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev
Norwegian rocket incident
false alarm incident
Åland Islands dispute
dispute over the autonomy of the Åland Islands
Namamugi Incident
samurai assault on British people in Japan on September 14, 1862
international incident
relatively small or limited action or clash that results in a wider dispute between two or more nation-states
shoe-banging incident
claimed October 1960 incident where Nikita Khrushchev was said to have banged his shoe into the desk in the United Nations General Assembly
2024 Iranian missile strikes in Pakistan
16 Jan. 2024 missile and drone attack by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of Iran in Koh-e-Sabz, Panjgur District, Balochistan, Pakistan
Iranian events of 1921
Coup d'état in Persia, 1921
2022–2023 Pentagon document leaks
documents leak
1989 Belgium MiG-23 crash
aviation accident
assassination of Jamal Khashoggi
2018 murder of Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi on Turkish soil
assassination of Kim Jong-nam
2017 murder in Malaysia
General Sherman incident
battle
murder of Giulio Regeni
Murder of an Italian graduate student in Egypt
Sedan
1962 U.S. nuclear test
2020 Russian Mil Mi-24 shootdown
aviation incident
We begin bombing in five minutes
joke made by President Reagan during the Cold War
Sofagate
thumb|The EU delegation is seated on the left side and the Turkish delegation on the right side.|375x375px Sofagate is a diplomatic protocol incident that happened during the visit of President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen and President of the European Council Charles Michel to Turkey in April 2021. When Michel and von der Leyen were to meet with the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, there were only two chairs and two sofas in the room in which they were received. Michel then seated himself in the chair beside Erdoğan while von der
2013 Lahad Datu standoff
Military conflict with in Sabah, Malaysia, with Sulu nationalists
U-530
1942 Type IXC/40 submarine
2023 Black Sea drone incident
aviation incident in the Black Sea on March 14, 2023, in which a Russian fighter jet intercepted and likely brought down an American drone
Daily Telegraph Affair
political scandal
Operation Gideon (2020)
conflict in Venezuela
Welwel
Walwal (; ; ; also transliterated as Welwel or Walwaal) is a town located in the Ogaden region of eastern Ethiopia. Located in the Werder Zone of the Somali Region, this town has a longitude and latitude of with an elevation of 570 meters above sea level. Walwal has an estimated population of 842 according to the 2007 census.
cross border attacks in Sabah
1962–present Moro attacks in Sabah, Malaysia
Hainan Island incident
aviation accident
Jamal al-Jamal
Palestinian diplomat
Pankisi Gorge crisis
military conflict in Georgia between Chechen insurgents and Georgian government forces
2017 Dutch–Turkish diplomatic incident
Diplomatic incident
Juye Incident
1897 murders in China, led to Boxer Uprising
Nagasaki incident
1883 riot of Chinese sailors in Japan
Sakai incident
1868 killing of French sailors in Japan
Don Pacifico affair
international incident
2015 Pakistan Army Mil Mi-17 crash
aviation incident in Pakistan (2015)
Illegals Program
Russian espionage program
2017 Lebanon–Saudi Arabia dispute
political dispute
1982 kidnapping of Iranian diplomats
1982 unsolved kidnapping incident during the Lebanese Civil War
Tsushima Incident
1860 diplomatic incident
Teddybear Airdrop Minsk 2012
Swedish protest supporting the Belarusian opposition
Kuzma's mother
character in a Russian idiom describing punishment
Salonika Incident
Murder of French and German Consuls at Salonika
1998 Iranian diplomats murder in Afghanistan
siege of the Iranian consulate in Mazar-i-Sharif and execution of Iranian diplomats in Afghanistan
Evo Morales grounding incident
2013 aviation incident in Europe
Port Hamilton incident
1885–1887 British intervention in Korea
Tientsin incident
international incident during the Second Sino-Japanese War
North Korean Embassy in Madrid incident
2019 incident
Virginius Affair
dispute among the United States, the United Kingdom and Spain