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A Russian warship has traversed Turkey's Bosphorus en route to the Black Sea amid tight security measures. The warship was accompanied by two boats and a ship from the Turkish Coast Guard in addition to a police helicopter. 

Greece is to send 308 migrants -- mainly Moroccans, Tunisians and Algerians -- back to Turkey under a 2002 deal signed with Ankara, a government source told AFP on March 1.

The International Press Institute (IPI) Turkey National Committee has paid a visit to Cumhuriyet journalist Can Dündar who was released early on Feb. 26 after 92 days in Silivri Prison together with Erdem Gül, the Ankara bureau chief of the newspaper. 

The Diyarbak?r Public Prosecutor's Office launched an investigation into Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Selahattin Demirta? and Democratic Regions Party (DBP) co-chair Kamuran Yüksek on March 1, after they called on locals in the southeastern province of Diyarbak?r to march toward the restive Sur district.

Turkish police have detained four suspects for "harming property," after attacking the Agape Protestant Church in the Black Sea province of Samsun, daily Agos has reported. 

EU president Donald Tusk said on March 1 he would press Ankara for "a more intensive engagement" in the migrant crisis when he meets Turkey's president and prime minister later this week.

Galatasaray, which lost 2-0 against lowly Gaziantepspor over the weekend and is now 16 points behind Turkish Super League leaders Fenerbahçe, announced yesterday that it has part ways with coach Mustafa Denizli. 

The Lions were also knocked out of the Europa League last week.  

Greece sent around 70 Moroccan, Algerian and Tunisian migrants who illegally entered the country back to Turkey on March 1. 

A stray cat found two years ago in the Central Anatolian province of Osmaniye without two of his front legs can now walk using only his hind legs, after one year of treatment. 

After being found in a sorry state on a railroad by local animal lovers, the cat was taken to the Cat Hospital in the Turkish capital Ankara, where he was taken under treatment. 

Swissôtel The Bosphorus and Istanbul Les Ambassadeurs Bar continues its series of "Ambassadors of Jazz Music are in Town" concerts with Gypsy music legend Florin Niculescu.