Turkey

Turkey needs at least 70,000 qualified IT professionals right now and a number of certificate programs will be launched to meet this need, Science, Industry and Technology Minister Fikri I??k has said in an interview on Bloomberg HT television. 

A top Twitter executive has said the company ?knows and is closely watching? pressure on Twitter from Turkey, speaking during a visit to Turkey?s Press Council on June 24.

President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has called all political party leaders to respect his presidential post since protecting the country?s most prestigious seat is everybody?s responsibility.

Former Cameroonian international striker Samuel Eto?o arrived in the southern Turkish city of Antalya on June 23 to sign with Antalyaspor, prompting supporters of the club to paralyze the airport to see their newest transfer.

A group of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants has stormed into Kobane, the Kurdish-dominated Syrian town near the Turkish border which they failed to capture at the start of 2015 after four months of deadly clashes, in a new bid to fight back a Kurdish advance.

Turkey on June 25 denied "baseless" claims that Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants reentered the Syrian town of Kobane through the Turkish border crossing to detonate a suicide bomb.

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters re-entered the Syrian Kurdish battleground town of Kobane on June 25, detonating a suicide bomb and battling Kurdish forces, a monitoring group said.

Sebastian Ghita, 37, a wealthy businessman and lawmaker, on Wednesday was banned from leaving his hometown and from carrying out his duties as an MP as he is investigated for influence peddling, tax evasion, money laundering, complicity with embezzlement of EU funds and bribing voters.

Sebastian Ghita, Romanian businessman and MP / Photo: Nasul.tv

Turkey's Republican People's Party (CHP) has declared that the selection of a parliamentary speaker has no connection to the formation of a future coalition government, but the Justice and Development Party's (AKP) maneuvers suggest otherwise amid moves to shape a power-sharing deal.

There seems to be two visible stumbling blocks in front of the Republican People?s Party (CHP) and Nationalist Movement Party (MHP). One is how the relations between the government and President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an will be shaped in a possible coalition scenario. The other is whether the corruption dossier concerning four former ministers will be reopened or not.