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A survey has revealed that the United States is the top of the list for preferred holiday destinations of Turks.

According to the survey, conducted by DORinsight, a Turkish research and analyst company, 11.6 percent of the participants chose the U.S. as their preferred vacation spot, followed by Italy with 10.4 percent, the Maldives with 6.1 percent and Spain with 5.6 percent.

A Tunisian border guard was killed on Aug. 23 in a shootout with jihadists on the border with Algeria, state television and the president of a union of border guards said.

The weakness of the Turkish Lira against the U.S. dollar has placed an extra 11 billion lira ($3.82 billion) burden on Turkey?s natural gas bill since the beginning of the year, Energy Minister Taner Y?ld?z said on Aug. 19.

An Algerian passenger at Istanbul's Atatürk Airport broke the glass door of a passenger boarding bridge and began to run after a taxiing plane after he fell asleep in a waiting room.

The reported execution of Croatian worker Tomislav Salopek on Wednesday adds to the grim tally of Western hostages that ISIS has subjected to the barbaric medieval practice of beheading. 

Make up is supposed to hide some minor imperfections on a woman or embellish her face. But to completely makeover a face to the point of not being recognized at all, is something that can probably only be achieved by those highly-paid special effects artists employed in Hollywood. Or maybe not.

The Republican People's Party (CHP) submitted a motion to the parliament on Aug. 10 for a detailed report on the institutional, administrative, legal and economic factors of work accidents in order to establish a holistic approach to prevent such incidents.

Turkish shipyards have focused on finding new export markets as the country?s ship and yacht exports declined due to the problems in neighboring hot markets, according to sector representatives, as reported by daily Dünya. 

A repatriation center with a capacity of 400 people will be built in the Ayvac?k district of the northwestern province of Çanakkale.

The return of oil from Iran following the landmark nuclear energy deal with world powers could create fresh tensions within OPEC but may reinforce the cartel's output strategy, analysts say.