Turkey

FC Barcelona and Turkey's Lassa Tires have officially presented a sponsorship deal they signed last year that will make Turkey's leading tire manufacturer the main tire sponsor of the club's professional sections.

Turkish Presidency has launched an Arabic interface, issuing President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an's statements to the Arab world directly, with a target of reaching around 350 million people, Do?an News Agency has reported.
     

A key suspect in the plotting of last month's deadly bombing in Bangkok was last tracked via multiple flights to Turkey, Thai police said on Sept. 14, and Malaysia announced it had made three arrests related to the attack. 

When suspected Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) jihadists organized a deadly attack on Turkish activists in Suruç on the Syrian border in July, respected newspaper commentator Kadri Gürsel responded with a tweet critical of President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an.
 

At least 22 migrants, including four children, have drowned while 211 migrants have been rescued after a Kos-bound boat capsized in the Aegean Sea. 

The 20-meter wooden boat, which was also used for boat tours, capsized at around 6 a.m. on Sept. 15 off the coast of Turkey's southwestern Datça district.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has called on the United Nations to act against Israel?s ?breach? of the sanctity of the al-Aqsa Mosque in east Jerusalem, a presidential source said late Sept. 14.

Refugee handbooks were discovered by Sky News after one was washed up on the Greek island of Lesbos. Written in Arabic, the pocket-sized guide book contained tips, maps and phone numbers of organizations. The booklet’s idyllic cover featured a photo of a young man gazing at the sunset on the beach with oars at his feet as he prepared to make the perilous crossing.

The consul generals to Istanbul of three European Union countries have staged a courtesy visit to daily Hürriyet?s editor-in-chief following the two violent attacks on the newspaper?s offices last week.

The head office of the Turkish weekly newspaper Nokta was raided by police on Sept. 14, upon a court order, to confiscate all issues of its last edition amid accusations that it ?insulted? President Tayyip Erdo?an. Its news chief Murat Çapan was taken into custody.

The deputy chair in charge of the Justice and Development Party's (AKP) organization has been ousted surprisingly, leading to questions in my mind about whether the party's controversial social media strategy played a role in his demise.