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There is a possibility of attacks targeting Turkey’s politicians, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmuş has said, adding it was not likely to expect pro-coup officers to step aside from their objectives after their defeat on July 15
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Three people have been killed while three others were injured in an armed fight among two families at an animal tent erected ahead of Eid al-Adha holiday in the Karabağlar district of the Aegean province of İzmir.
Turkish Parliament Speaker İsmail Kahraman has called Argentine revolutionary Che Guevara a “killer” and a “bandit,” while criticizing the Turkish youth’s interest in him by wearing his image on shirts and badges
The United States “should keep its word” and force the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) to withdraw to the east of the Euphrates, Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmuş has said
The United States criticized clashes between Turkish forces and some opposition groups in northern Syria on Aug. 29 as “unacceptable” and called on all armed actors in the fighting to stand down and focus on the fight against ISIL
The People’s Protection Units (YPG) in northern Syria would be targeted “until it moves east of the Euphrates River,” Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said on Aug. 29
The European Union made a mistake by not showing empathy with Ankara immediately after the failed coup attempt of July 15, former Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt has said
The leader of the nationalist opposition party has called for continued political unity in Turkey against growing threats of terror and coup plotters, while also supporting the government’s cross-border operation into northern Syria
Eight coup plotter soldiers who fled to Greece and sought asylum after the failed coup attempt in Turkey on July 15 have also applied for asylum in three other European countries
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan vowed on Aug. 28 to devote equal energy to combatting Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants and Syrian Kurdish fighters, on the fifth day of a major offensive
Turkey and Israel will exchange ambassadors within the next few weeks following reconciliation between the countries initiated earlier in the summer, Amira Oron, Israel’s charge d’affaires in Ankara, has told Anadolu Agency
The number of people hospitalized due to contaminated water in the Elbistan district of the Mediterranean province of Kahramanmaraş has risen from 5,000 to some 32,000
TOURISM
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Turkey’s tourism sector has praised the extension of the public holiday for Eid al-Adha to nine days as well as the resumption of charter flights from the Russian market, noting that hotel occupancy rates in some resorts may hit 100 percent
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ECONOMICS
ANKARA
Turkey’s economic morale has given some mixed signals in the uncertain aftermath of July’s attempted military coup, with the economic confidence index dropping by 24.1 percent in August compared to the previous month
ISTANBUL
An additional 53 Türk Telekom employees have been detained in a fresh operation as part of a probe over the July 15 failed coup attempt in Turkey on Aug. 29, Doğan News Agency has reported
Turkey’s’s 1979 deal with the US stipulates the arrest of Fethullah Gülen after the receipt of documents, Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ tells the Hürriyet Daily News. ‘Political will is key to implementing the process. We see a lot of interest from the US but no positive outcome,’ he says
Koç Holding’s defense company, which developed the Altay main battle tank, announced it submitted its final offer to the Undersecretary of the Defense Industry to start mass production of the vehicle
HAKKARİ – Doğan News Agency
Two specialized sergeants were killed in clashes with outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants in the Samanlı neighborhood of the Şemdinli district of the eastern province of Hakkari on Aug. 29
DENİZLİ
Economy Minister Nihat Zeybekci has said the country will start official talks with the European Union to update the existing Customs Union by the end of 2016 or early 2017 at the latest, Anadolu Agency reported on Aug. 29
TEHRAN - Agence France-Presse
France’s environment minister signed on Aug. 28 a plan for French firms to help tackle Iran’s environmental problems, but criticized the refusal of her country’s banks to work with the Islamic republic
BEIJING
Police believe they have captured a serial killer dubbed China’s “Jack the Ripper” for the way he mutilated several of his 11 female victims, state-run media reported on Aug. 29, nearly three decades after the first murder
BOGOTA – Agence France-Presse
Colombia began on Aug. 29 its first day of peace with the country’s largest insurgency after a ceasefire between the FARC and the government went into effect, ending 52 years of warfare
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When abroad, when you are eating out, the waiter would attend to your table every 10 minutes or so and ask if you were content or whether there was anything else you wished for
One of the masters of Turkish literature, author Vedat Türkali, died on Aug. 29 at the Yalova State Hospital, where he had been receiving treatment for multiple organ failure since Aug. 27. He was 97
As two film festivals kick off in Canada, the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) and Montreal World Film Festival one week apart, anticipated Turkish films will compete for coveted awards
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The world’s largest Islamic cemetery, the Seljuk graveyard in Bitlis’ Ahlat district, is as important as the Çanakkale Martyrs’ Memorial site, officials say
Turkish champion Beşiktaş will open its Champions League campaign against two-time winner Benfica, with Italian hopeful Napoli and Dynamo Kyiv making up a competitive Group B
A marble church floor has been unearthed during archaeological excavations in the ancient city of Stratonikeia, known as the city of gladiators in the western Turkish province of Muğla’s Yatağan district
Antalya’s ancient city of Phaselis hosts thousands of local and foreign tourists who come to see its coasts and historical artifacts side-by-side
Fenerbahçe chairman Aziz Yıldırım has said that a probe into rival Galatasaray should be launched over links to U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen, adding his club would file a complaint against the Turkish Football Federation (TFF) over suspected Gülenist activities against it
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