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Seven people were arrested April 22 in a probe into the financial links of sympathizers of U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, including the managing member of the Dumankaya construction company, Halit Dumankaya. 

Dumankaya and others were sent to court with a demand for their arrest over allegations of funding the Gülen movement. 

Some 32 militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) were killed in a Turkish Armed Force operation in Bashiqa near Mosul on April 19 after the militants launched an attack on a tank belonging to the Turkish army in the Bashiqa training camp. 

Bonuses promised to workers involved in the construction of the third bridge over Istanbul's Bosphorus by President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an have caused a crisis, as workers claim the promises weren't kept, Do?an News Agency reported on April 19. 

One special operations police was killed April 18 in attack staged by outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants in the eastern province of Van, while another officer succumbed to his wounds at Gülhane Military Academy Hospital (GATA) some 17 days after being shot in the head in the Nusaybin district of southeastern Mardin province.

An alleged senior figure of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), who had been the subject of an international arrest warrant and caught in Stockholm, will be extradited to Germany in 15 days, a Swedish court has ruled. 

Reliable and transparent monitoring and emissions reporting are "step one" for an emerging carbon market, European Union Policy Director at International Emissions Trading Association Sarah Deblock said as she discussed the country's road map in energy transition within COP21 objectives.

Turkey's economic development, which has been "looking quite good," hampers the exposure of "real problems," according to OECD Working Group on Bribery chair Drago Kos, who urged that the low level of transparency should be higher on the agenda.

Turkey has put to trial one of the suspects in the 1996 assasination of Özdemir Sabanc? some 20 years after the top industrialist's killing, which remains as one of the country's most notorious assassinations. 

Russian President Vladimir Putin has called for an end to the fierce fighting renewed between Armenia and Azerbaijan in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh, where a conflict is threatening to resurface after having remained frozen since 199s4.

Both Armenia and Azerbaijan maintain the other side began the fighting, with conflicting reports about details and casualties.

An image of Aylan Kurdi, the 3-year-old refugee who drowned off Turkey's Bodrum coast in September last year, which was captured by Do?an News Agency reporter Nilüfer Demir received the Press Photo of the Year award at Turkey Photojournalist Association Press' Photos of the Year 2016 contest.