Turkey

A Syrian journalist from Syria's Aleppo, was shot and severely injured in Turkey's southeastern province of Gaziantep on April 10.  

A masked assailant shot Muhammed Zahir al-Sherkat, a 36-year-old Syrian citizen, in the head in Gaziantep's De?irmiçem neighborhood. 

Britain's Duke and Duchess of Cambridge played a charity cricket match with underprivileged children in Mumbai on April 10, the first day of a week-long tour of India that will include a trip to the isolated Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan.

Usually concerned with top secret matters affecting national security, Britain's eavesdropping spy agency GCHQ was also on the lookout for leaks of a yet-to-be-published Harry Potter book, its publisher has revealed. 

Turkey's foreign and EU ministers have met with ministers from across Europe in Istanbul to discuss the handling of the migrant crisis ahead of an EU ministers meeting in the Netherlands on April 11-12.

Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavu?o?lu and EU Minister Volkan Bozk?r hosted ministers from the Netherlands, which holds the EU presidency, France, Slovakia and Portugal on April 9.

Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Selahattin Demirta? has criticized the government's plans to strip "terrorist sympathizers" of their citizenship, saying that a similar "junta" practice took place during "Hitler's fascism" and Turkey's coup eras.

Turkey's flagship carrier, Turkish Airlines, has brought a five-year-old American girl who will gradually go blind and deaf due to a rare genetic disease to Istanbul as part of her family's "visual bucket list" of experiences they wanted her to have before she loses her sight.

Ukraine's Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said in a televised address on April 10 that he has decided to resign, less than two months after surviving a no-confidence vote in parliament.
 

A U.S. prosecutor, who garnered fame in Turkey for launching a probe against a controversial Turkish-Iranian businessman, has said allegations claiming he was bribed $2.5 million by individuals trying to topple the Turkish government were "the silliest" among many "silly things written" about him.

The expelled leader of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS), Lyutvi Mestan, founded his new party on Sunday.

The founding conference was held in hall 3 of the National Palace of Culture (NDK) in the Bulgarian capital and was attended by 1103 founders.

Turkey and Saudi Arabia will seek to further deepen bilateral relations on the occasion of Saudi King Salman's two-day visit to Ankara, which will observe the meeting of a high-level strategic cooperation council with the participation of a number of ministers from both sides.