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Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu on June 15 criticized the government's way of dealing with environmental issues and urged it to take immediate measures against the marine mucilage, or "sea snot," blanketing shorelines across Turkey's Marmara Sea.

Turkey made up the story about its coast guard taking down a Greek flag on an islet in the southeastern Aegean after a Turkish helicopter was chased off from the area of Ro, Alternate Defense Minister Fotis Kouvelis said on Tuesday.

The Turkish coastguard has removed a Greek flag that had been raised on an islet in the Aegean Sea, off the coast of the Turkish resort town of Didim, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on Monday.

A Turkish court has arrested two Czechs over membership of the Syrian Kurdish Peoples' Protection Units (YPG), a senior Czech official said on Aug. 2.

Turkish security forces detained the 30-year-old man and 24-year-old woman -Miroslav Farkas and Marketa Vselichova—in the southeastern province of Şırnak that borders Syria and Iraq on Nov. 13, 2016.

A former British soldier who fought against Islamic State in Syria has been arrested with his girlfriend and her mother on holiday in Turkey after being accused of posting pro-Kurdish propaganda on Facebook.

The number of migrants who drowned after a Greece-bound boat capsized off Turkey's Aegean coast on March 6 has risen to 25 and Turkish authorities have detained two human smugglers over the incident.

A Turkish official, who previously put the toll at 18, confirmed the latest figure, saying the coastguard had found seven more bodies, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported on March 7.

At least three Syrian migrants, including two children, drowned early on Jan. 31 in a fresh migrant boat tragedy off the western Turkish resort town of Didim. 

Turkish police detained four suspects and seized a number of armaments in a raid organized jointly between the police and the gendarmerie on a house in the resort town of Didim in the Aegean prov?nce of Ayd?n on Jan. 7.

A repatriation center with a capacity of 400 people will be built in the Ayvac?k district of the northwestern province of Çanakkale.

A total of 116 migrants who attempted to cross into Europe through Turkey have been captured by security forces in the Aegean region over two days.