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A man living in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır has been sentenced to 15 months in prison for allegedly throwing a plastic bottle at his son along with punching his daughter, Doğan News Agency has reported
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Istanbul’s old Galata Bridge, which connected two important centers of the city for eight decades before it was taken to a rear point on the Golden Horn for restoration following damage from a major fire, has been entirely removed
A statue of Turkey’s founding-father, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, was removed on Dec. 22 from the main town square of the Black Sea province of Rize and was re-erected on a ceremony area in front of the Rize governor’s office
Ankara, Moscow and Tehran will meet again next month to discuss a plan to end hostilities in Syria following a key declaration in Russia
The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is planning to make revisions on a constitutional amendment draft after the party’s lawmakers raised concern about articles that would usher in “substitute parliamentarians” and stipulate that a presidential candidate be born a Turkish citizen
The capture of Syria’s al-Bab from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) is almost complete, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Dec. 23
Sixteen soldiers who were killed in al-Bab in northern Syria as part of Turkey’s four-month-long military operation to secure its border were laid to rest on Dec. 23 in 14 provinces across the country
The editors of a new collection of essays on the social effects of Turkey’s economic transformation since the 1980s speak to the Hürriyet Daily News about their book
The assassination of Russian Ambassador to Ankara Adrey Karlov was an attempt to hurt Russia and harm Russian-Turkish relations, Russian President Vladimir Putin said, adding that the incident would not harm relations between the two countries
Turkish troops should not be left alone in the ongoing Euphrates Shied Operation in Syria, Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has said amid an increase in the death toll of Turkish soldiers
The United States has not discovered any involvement by Turkey in the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) oil trade, the country’s ambassador to Ankara has said
The U.S. Embassy in Ankara has warned its citizens to be vigilant during upcoming holidays and New Year’s Eve celebrations in Turkey, urging them to be mindful of attending public gatherings for both events due to increased security concerns across the country
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ANKARA
Ankara has urged Tehran to effect the immediate withdrawal of Shiite militants from Syria amid the announcement of plans for a trilateral meet among Turkey, Russia and Iran in Astana in mid-February 2017
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Turan Yılmaz - ANKARA
The main opposition party has asked the Office of the Prime Ministry about a video released by the Islamic State of the Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), which allegedly shows two Turkish soldiers being immolated, in a written parliamentary questionnaire
ISTANBUL
Turkish Culture Minister Nabi Avcı attended an event on Dec. 23 that was organized to introduce a restoration project for the Vlahsaray Panayia Greek Orthodox Church to be conducted by the Association for the Protection of Cultural Heritage and a foundation set up for the historic church
Yıldız Holding has decided to sell 71.8 million shares of Ülker Bisküvi, Turkey’s largest cookie and biscuit company, to its wholly owned unit Pladis as part of a strategy
Turkey’s property sales soared to 132,655 units in November with a 25.1 percent increase compared to the same month of 2015, but the declining trend in sales to foreigners continued, data from the Turkish Statistics Institute (TÜİK) showed on Dec. 23
ISTANBUL – Anadolu Agency
An Istanbul court accepted an indictment on Dec. 23 against the “football structure” of the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ), a network accused of instigating Turkey’s July 15 military coup plot
ANKARA/BRUSSELS
Turkey’s banking sector supervisory and regulatory arrangements are in compliance with European Union rules, according to the European Commission, Deputy Prime Minister Nurettin Canikli said in a written statement late on Dec. 22
VALETTA – Agence France-Presse
Hijackers claiming to have a grenade took over a Libyan plane Dec. 23 and diverted it to Malta before releasing everyone onboard and surrendering to authorities, officials said
Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Istanbul MP and deputy parliament speaker Pervin Buldan was released on Dec. 23 after briefly testifying to a prosecutor in Istanbul
MILAN
Italian police shot dead the man believed to be responsible for this week’s Berlin Christmas market truck attack, killing him after he pulled a gun on them during a routine check in the early hours of Dec. 23
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The dead bodies of 16 Turkish soldiers were buried in 14 different provinces across Turkey, all att about the same time on Dec. 23.
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Only a few days after the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) killed 14 riot police in a suicide car bomb attack on Dec. 17, the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) announced there were 16 martyrs on Dec. 21 in Turkey’s ongoing Euphrates Shield Operation that is aiming to clear al-Bab, a strategic town in northern Syria, from Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) jihadists
If you happen to be a Christian from the Western side of world, this weekend you might be celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ. In that case, let me begin this column with a wholehearted wish: Merry Christmas! I hope this holy day will be a great time for your family, and bring you all the blessings one could hope for.
Those days when our social media accounts were not covered in black photos, when everyone was making future plans with joy, when people were not so angry and yelling at each other, they seem so long ago
In response to concerns over proposed amendments to the Turkish constitution, Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım said, “We will not insist on the unfavorable ones.”
All of us in Turkey are remnants of an empire that crumbled at the turn of the last century. I was born in Bursa, in western Turkey. My mother’s Tatar ancestors came to Bursa from Romania during the Balkan Wars
Twelve people were killed in a Christmas market in Berlin on Monday, mown down by a terrorist in a big truck. Elsewhere in Germany, if it was an average day, another ten people were killed in or by motor vehicles. They are all equally dead; the only difference is the motivation of the man in the truck.
During a Fox TV interview on Dec. 21, retired Gen. Raymond Odierno said that because of the “passive” strategy of U.S. President Barack Obama against terrorism, Russia had gained leadership in the Middle East.
The modernist vs traditional debate on Father Christmas and the marking of the new year came to an end this year, as many Turks are just too numb and too sad to celebrate
The Spor Toto Super League’s surprise leader, Başakşehir, will hope to grab the symbolic title of winter champions when it travels to Adanaspor on Dec. 24 while also maintaining its unbeaten start to the season
Television dramas have become ever more sophisticated in recent years, from the zombie apocalypse of ‘The Walking Dead’ to medieval power struggles in ‘Game of Thrones.’ Yet the most-watched television show in the U.S. last season was ‘The Big Bang Theory’
The Culture and Tourism Ministry has replied to questions as to why it disapproved of a promotional film for Turkey featuring Julianne Moore two years ago. ‘It would not have been useful,’ the ministry says
Painter, writer and photographer Fikret Otyam, who died last year in August, is commemorated in an exhibition in honor of his 90th birthday
“The Tangled Skirt,” a psychological thriller by Steve Braunstein, will premiere at Istanbul’s Küçük Salon on Jan. 7, 2017
A man has become the Roman city of Leptis Magna’s unlikely savior, protecting it from looting and vandalism as chaos rocks Libya following the 2011 downfall of Gadhafi
The Zoology Museum at the Çanakkale 18 Mart University is home to various animal species which were killed, died naturally or seized in operations. Samples in the museums also serve academic
Ancient tombs from the Roman era have been unearthed at a jobsite in the western province of Kütahya’s Gaybiefendi neighborhood, prompting a halt to construction
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