ISTANBUL

President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has slammed the editors of Turkish magazine Nokta, which was raided by police over its latest issue showing a photomontage of Erdo?an taking a selfie in front of a killed soldier?s coffin, as ?dishonorable and despicable.?

Speaking in a TV interview late on Sept. 16, Erdo?an said ?the law should give the answer? to Nokta.

One worker has died and four others were injured after a four-story building in Istanbul's Üsküdar district collapsed.

Justice and Development Party (AKP) deputy Abdurrahim Boynukal?n, who delivered a fiery speech addressing hundreds of protesters who attacked daily Hürriyet last week, has filed a request with the Ankara Governor?s Office to be assigned a personal security guard as he said he feels ?under threat.?

Addressing a group of international ombudsmen in Ankara on Sept. 16, President Tayyip Erdo?an tried to assure Turkey?s ?Western friends? that the country is a democracy, not an autocracy. He said he wanted to underline this because people who want to undermine Turkey?s march toward an ?advanced democracy? are trying to ?manipulate? reality to create an adverse impression.

One of the pieces of rags among the pro-government newspapers fabricated a story and printed it as its headline the other day. According to the story created and written at one of the paper's desks, the Do?an Media Group was supporting a terror organization. 

Novelist Orhan Pamuk was presented with this year?s Erdal Öz Literature Prize at a special ceremony Turkish Nobel laureate novelist Orhan Pamuk has been named the recipient of this year?s Erdal Öz Literary Prize, which is named after the late founder of the Can Publishing House and given to a writer who published a work in the last three years.

U.S. Ambassador to Ankara John Bass underlined the importance of press freedom in democratic societies during a visit to daily Hürriyet headquarters in Istanbul on Sept. 16. The visit came after the Hürriyet?s headquarters was physically attacked by protesters twice in two days.

Two leading Green leaders visited daily Hürriyet on Sept. 16 to voice their support after physical attacks targeting the newspaper?s Istanbul headquarters last week.

Turkey is hosting over 250,000 Syrians at refugee camps coordinated by the Prime Ministry's Disaster and Emergency Management Authority, a senior governmental official has said.

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) Managing Director for Energy Efficiency Josue Tanaka told Anadolu Agency about how the bank is helping Turkish institutions to implement energy-saving programs.