Turkey

Aircraft from a U.S.-led coalition have destroyed the Turkish consulate compound in Mosul, which has been occupied by fighters of the Islamist State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) since June 2014, the Turkish Foreign Ministry has said. 

The EU and Turkey are expected on Monday to exchange the first groups of Syrian migrants as had been agreed at a summit in March in an effort to stem the influx of migrants from Turkey to Europe.

Turkey's Forestry and Waterworks Minister Veysel Ero?lu slammed NASA's technology as "inadequate," and claimed Turkish studies were better at weather forecasts, after the U.S. agency released a study concluding that the ongoing draught in the eastern Mediterranean was the worst in the past 900 years. 

Germany will take the first Syrian refugees subject to an EU-Turkey pact on April 4, with its ambassador noting that the small group's "resettlement" will serve as a "test" to determine deficiencies in the EU-Turkey readmission deal reached this month, as Greece readies to send its first batch of migrants to Turkey. 

President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an, who went to Washington last week to attend a nuclear summit, received perhaps his warmest welcome from pro-Israel lobby groups as he enjoyed the benefits of the recent rapprochement between Turkey and Israel.

The left-right grand coalition government in northern Cyprus has collapsed due to its failure to deliver on exactly what it promised to do in the first place: undertake long-overdue reforms and achieve the restructuring of the Turkish Cypriot public administration. Was it a big surprise? Unfortunately, no.

Shortly after the U.S. President Barack Obama told reporters that he informed Turkish President Tayyip Erdo?an that the Turkish government's "approach toward the press is one that could lead Turkey down a path that would be very troubling," Erdo?an said the issue did not come up during their 50-minute one-on-one meet on March 31, in Washington D.C.

The onset of spring has seen a rally in emerging economies like Turkey, but the country's political risks are likely to rule out further growthThe European Central Bank's negative step on interest rates, as well as the U.S. Fed's postponement of its rate operation, look as if they have created a doping effect on "emerging economies," which also includes Turkey.

Turkey is suffering a lack of any system to guard against child sex abuse, according to a lawyer who has advocated for children.

In 2005, 27 million movie tickets were sold in Turkey. The ticket sales surpassed 60 million in 2015. Turkey takes second place after Russia as the fastest growing movie industry in Europe. Turkey is also the only country in Europe where national cinema takes more than half of the market share. While there were 29 Turkish movies produced in 2005, that number shot to 136 in 2015.