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Turkish authorities have detained 29 people suspected of having ties to militant group Islamic State in operations across nine provinces, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said on Friday.

Suspects captured in "Operation Heroes-37" on Friday were planning to attack churches and synagogues in Istanbul, Yerlikaya said on social media platform X.

          Turkey's official news agency says a firefighting plane has crashed in Kahramanmaras in southern Turkey By AP Saturday, Aug. 14, 2021 6:30

ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) - Turkey's official news agency says a firefighting plane crashed Saturday in Kahramanmaras in southern Turkey.

A US Navy destroyer on June 11 crossed the Bosphorus and entered the Black Sea, Turkey's Anadolu state news agency reported, as tensions simmer around Ukraine.

The crossing by the USS Laboon was reported as U.S. President Joe Biden met Western leaders at the G7 summit in England.

An Iranian consulate employee in Istanbul was remanded in custody on Feb. 12 in connection with a probe into the assassination of an Iranian dissident in Turkey in 2019.

The employee, identified by Turkey's Anadolu state news agency by his initials M.R.N., is suspected of providing forged travel documents for the assassination's alleged mastermind, allowing him to return to Iran.

President Tayyip Erdogan said that US sanctions over Turkey's purchase of Russian defense systems was disrespectful to an important ally in NATO, state-owned Anadolu news agency reported on Friday.

President Tayyip Erdoğan said that possible U.S. sanctions over Turkey's purchase of Russian defense systems would be disrespectful to an important ally in NATO, state-owned Anadolu news agency reported on Dec. 11. 

The journalist Furkan Naci Top, who in recent years has been the head of the Turkish news agency Anadolu's office in Greece, died on Thursday in Istanbul. He was 34.

According to reports, Top died from a very aggressive form of cancer.

In the wake of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras's official visit to Turkey earlier this month, the neighboring country's ambassador in Athens has reiterated Ankara's demand for the extradition of eight military personnel who fled to Greece after the 2016 coup attempt.

News agencies in Europe have joined forces to fight the growing threat posed by fake news. In a resolution adopted last week in Tirana, these commit to developing effective tools and rules to enable journalists and Internet users to fight misinformation as well as to promote reliable media and educate users to surf in the digital environment.

In what was seen as an indirect threat to Greece and Cyprus, Binali Yildirim, the speaker of Turkey's Grand National Assembly, Thursday warned international oil companies against energy exploration in the Eastern Mediterranean, including Cyprus's exclusive economic zone, before a settlement is reached on the divided island.