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Anadolu Agency has announced the winners of Photos of the Year awards in voting that marks the essential events of 2018. Ilhami Cetin’s “Grandpa Ali and his cat”, which features 83-year-old Ali Mese clutching onto his kitten after a fire burned down their house in western Turkey, is the winner of the life category. Click through for the story in photos...

Russia's energy company Gazprom will extend the TurkStream natural gas pipeline's second string to Bulgaria, according to Russian newspaper Kommersant on Thursday, reported Anadolu Agency

Kommersant claimed that Russian gas would flow from Turkey to Bulgaria, Serbia, Hungary and Slovakia.

Turkey's Trade Minister Ruhsar Pekcan will pay an official visit to Bulgaria's capital Sofia on Sunday and Monday, the ministry has announced, reported Anadolu Agency

During the two-day visit, a delegation of some 200 businesspeople will accompany Pekcan, said a ministry statement on Saturday.

Germany welcomed a draft agreement between Brussels and London on Britain's exit from the European Union, reported Anadolu Agency.

"I am very pleased that the chief negotiators of the EU and Great Britain has reached a preliminary agreement in Brexit negotiations," German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said on Twitter.

Turkish President Erdogan pens article for French daily Le Figaro on occasion of 100th anniversary of end of World War I, Anadolu Agency reports.

Turkey's fight against terrorist organizations represents a prerequisite for the security of the European nations, the country president said.

Turkish authorities on Nov. 5 ordered the arrest of gold trader Reza Zarrab, a prosecution witness in the New York trial of a Turkish banker, over unlawful building work, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

A total of 210 illegal PKK militants have been "neutralized" as part of anti-terror operations across Turkey and abroad in October, according to information compiled by state-run Anadolu Agency. 

Turkish prosecutors on Nov. 2 launched an investigation into a lawmaker from the Felicity (SP) Party accused of "insulting the Turkish nation" and "praising crimes and criminals," state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

Turkey opened the longest and highest capacity supersonic test track of Europe on Nov. 1, state-run Anadolu Agency reported. Click through for the story in photos...

Four YPG members were killed after Turkish forces fired howitzer shells across the border into Syria's Ayn al Arab region, state-run Anadolu Agency said on Oct. 31.