Mersin

The Guardian exposed the dark side of the Turkish rag trade by visiting a basement room in an Istanbul suburb where young children that look like seasoned workers dextrously toil away. Young Syrian Kurds that flee their war-torn countries work 60 hours per week for 600 Turkish lira to help support their families while Istanbul’s students are in thier classroom.

German and Turkish police on Jan. 20 announced major coordinated raids against a criminal trafficking network that used unseaworthy ships to send more than 1,700 refugees to Europe.

Turkish authorities detained numerous Islamic State (IS) suspects in large-scale anti-terrorist operations carried out across the country after the deadly suicide attack in Istanbul on Tuesday.

The suicide bomber, who was identified as a Syrian linked to IS, blew himself up in the popular tourist area of Sultanahmet square in central Istanbul on Tuesday morning.

A recent call for self-governance supported by their party was a key to a substantial unification of Turkey's peoples, a co-chair of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) has argued, defending self-governance for the entire country, not only for southeastern Anatolia. 

Stefani Stoeva and Gabriela Stoeva have scooped their tenth gold prize in badminton at a tournament held in Mersin, Turkey.

The Bulgarian duo defeated Özge Bayrak and Neslihan Yi?it 21:19, 21:12 in the final match of the doubles' competition.

Stoevi sisters are currently the only Europeans in world's Top 15 in doubles, ranking 10th after having grabbed the prize.

Syrian migrants are becoming an economic actor in Turkey not only in terms of their labor power but also their entrepreneurial skills, with the number of companies opened by Syrians increasing 40-fold between 2010 and 2014, according to new data. 

Other data suggests the trend is even accelerating more quickly this year. 

An Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) sleeper cell based in the southeastern province of Gaziantep was behind the twin suicide bombings that killed 100 peace activists in Ankara on Oct. 10, the Ankara Prosecutor's Office said in a written statement.

?Super-cyber Turkey in Syberia? appeared in this column on Apr. 11, 2014 ? barely a year and a half ago. It mentioned how Turkey?s security apparatus proudly launched a Center for Response to National Cyber Threats. Earlier, the Turkish military headquarters had formed a Cyber Warfare Command. In 2013 alone, Turkey had hosted about a dozen conferences on cyber security and new technologies.

Leading religious figures from the Christian and Muslim communities in the southern province of Mersin have sung prayers together for all the deceased regardless of their religions in the Mersin City Cemetery.

Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Selahattin Demirta? has made a call to convene an extraordinary parliamentary assembly meeting to take decisions on three topics: the settlement process, Turkey's policy on Rojava and the foreign policy of the country, including the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).