Turkey

Energy and Natural Resources Minister Ali Riza Alaboyun has said Turkey will not face any problem in gas deliveries from Russia this winter.

?I do not expect any problems during winter,? Alaboyun said during an Oct. 3 press meeting in Istanbul, citing contractual rights.

The 140-meter domestically built amphibious ship is the first of two sister ships planned as part of Landing Ship, Tank (LST) project. Turkey launched on Oct. 3 the 140-meter amphibious ship "Bayraktar," the first of two vessels that are part of a domestic Landing Ship, Tank (LST) project.

Hasan Gürsoy opened the George Seferis Art Gallery in Urla, near Smyrna in Turkey, in honor of the Greek Nobel laureate. As a young boy, Seferis lived in the region until the age of 14 years, so when Gürsoy and his partners decided to open their gallery they decided to recognize the great Greek poet and thus pay tribute to the shared Greek-Turkish cultural past.

A Turkish prosecutor has stirred controversy by posing for a photo with an international footballer he has released after brief detention.

Turkish football club Trabzonspor's Guinea international midfielder Kevin Constant was detained on Oct. 3 at Istanbul's Atatürk Airport as he was boarding a flight to the French city of Nice.

Suspected militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) abducted two Turkish soldiers in eastern Turkey amid a flare-up of violence between militants and security forces, the army said Oct. 3. 

Turkish journalists have rallied in Istanbul in a show of solidarity with their colleagues who have been facing politically-motivated attacks and threats in the past weeks.

After the protest started in the Beyo?lu district's Tünel neighborhood on Oct. 3, journalists marched to Galatasaray Square with a placard reading "Free press cannot be silenced."

Ayd?n Do?an, the founder and honorary chairman of Do?an Holding, has said that Turkey?s largest media group ?does not have to be pro-government,? amid rising pressure and violence targeting the company and its workers.Ayd?n Do?an, the founder and honorary chairman of Do?an Holding, has said that Turkey?s largest media group ?does not have to be pro-government,?

Turkey's Supreme Election Board (YSK) has rejected calls for relocation of ballot boxes in several districs.

A Turkish woman was killed and her male partner badly wounded with the same bullet in a suicide attempt in Istanbul's best known shopping street on Oct. 2.

The Paris-based Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is ready to help European countries deal with the refugee crisis, a senior Turkish diplomat has told Anadolu Agency.