Turkey

An Istanbul court ruled on Feb. 3 for the acquittal of an Istanbul deputy police chief who was arrested on murder charges after killing a motorcyclist in Istanbul.

Celal Y?lmaz, 51, was arrested in November 2015 after he shot dead motorcyclist Ahmet Sülüso?lu during a quarrel in traffic.

Some 1,061 missing people have been unearthed in the past 10 years in Cyprus, while around 700 of the bodies have been identified and handed over to their families, according to a Turkish Cypriot member of the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) in Cyprus. 

There are more children and women than adult males travelling along the so-called Balkan Route at present - for the first time since the refugee and migrant crisis in Europe started last year, UNICEF has said.

Children and women now make up nearly 60% of refugees and migrants crossing the border from Greece into Macedonia, UNICEF reported in a news note on Monday.

Harry Potter and his wizarding friends have been transmogrified into cartoon characters in Japan, a country which remains bewitched by the fantasy world of Hogwarts and its magical inhabitants.

The front window of a Muslim butcher's shop was sprayed with bullets during the night on the French island of Corsica, where communal tensions have flared in recent months, local prosecutor Eric Bouillard said Feb. 3.

Locals in the town of Sur in southeastern Diyarbak?r province began to flee their houses on Feb. 3, after a months-long curfew was lifted in nine neighborhoods, where clashes between the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and the Turkish security forces have been ongoing. 

Three Palestinian assailants were shot dead on Feb. 3 while carrying out a shooting and stabbing attack that wounded two Israeli paramilitary policewomen at an entrance to Jerusalem's walled Old City, Israeli police said.

No more than 3 percent of the more than 2.4 million Syrian refugees in Turkey are part of the "educated-qualified" labor force, according to a new report from the Labor and Social Security Ministry.  

No more than 3 percent of the more than 2.4 million Syrian refugees in Turkey are part of the "educated-qualified" labor force, according to a new report from the Labor and Social Security Ministry.  

The Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra (BIPO) is set to go on tour to two of the most important countries in the history of classic music, Austria and Germany. 

The tour will begin in Vienna and continue to Germany's Friedrichshafen and Frankfurt before ending in Nurnberg.