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Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals has overturned an aggravated life sentence given to sociologist Pınar Selek, who was convicted for allegedly being involved in the bombing of Istanbul’s Spice Bazaar in 1998.

Romania expects record wheat harvest

Hillary Clinton's new memoir, “Hard Choices,” which many observers interpret as an unofficial kickoff of her prospective 2016 presidential campaign, dishes out a lot about key world leaders, but Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has a special place in the 656-page book published June 10.
 

Singapore Airlines on Tuesday started twice-weekly direct flights from Athens to Singapore, every Monday and Thursday.

The service will run to October 9 on Boeing 777-200ER aircraft.

The airline also operates 33 weekly flights linking Athens and Singapore via Istanbul in a code-share partnership with Aegean and Turkish Airlines.

Istancool, the annual high-profile International Arts & Culture Festival will be held for the fourth time this year between June 13 and 15 in Istanbul.

The U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations and President Barack Obama’s key foreign policy aide, Samantha Power, will visit Turkey this week to discuss the Syrian crisis and other regional issues, Turkish Foreign Ministry officials have told the Hürriyet Daily News.

A senior leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has said Kurdish politicans can not represent them during their meetings with the organization’s jailed leader, Abdullah Öcalan A senior leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has said that neither the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) nor the Peoples’ Democracy Party (HDP) can represent them during their meeting

A Turkish computer expert has created the most detailed panoramic image of Istanbul ever, using a total of 1,400 photographs.

Ahmet Bozdemir, a system manager at the 360tr.com website that hosts panoramic images from around Turkey, took hundreds of photographs on the roof of the Istanbul Sapphire, one of the tallest buildings in Europe.

Some 750 youths under the age of 18 joined the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) forces in one year, according to a fresh report by a police agency.

India’s ambassador to Turkey preferred to abstain from this year’s commemoration ceremony organized each April 24 for the fallen soldiers of the Gallipoli battles that took place during World War I.