Turkey

Turkey's legal framework hinders the integration of migrants, and the country ranks bottom of a list of 38 developed nations, according to the latest world ranking by a Brussels-based think tank.

Turkey is failing to integrate migrants amid an increased flow of refugees from Syria, according to the Migrant Integration Policy Index (MIPEX) 2015 report released on June 23.

The latest victim of femicide in Turkey was raped after she was killed, Turkish media reported June 23, quoting an autopsy report.

Cansu Kaya, 18, was found dead in a canal in the western province of Mu?la last week.

It may be eight in the morning, but pastry chef Yi?it Pura is already on his third espresso. "I've been up since five," he says, cheerfully. 

Pura is a busy man as he is building an empire. "There's a really great phrase in English: If you love what you do, you'll never work a day in your life," he says. 

The United Kingdom police must urgently set up round-the-clock communications with their counterparts in Turkey to stop Britons crossing into territory controlled by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), The Guardian quoted a member of the U.K. parliament as saying. 

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) decided on June 23 that there was no violation of the European charter?s article on the right to life in a case concerning Peoples? Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Selahattin Demirta?, who had complained that he had been exposed to a risk of death due to an article published in a local newspaper in 2007. 

The Venice Commission of the Council of Europe has expressed concerns over "serious interference with the independence of the judiciary in Turkey" which it had found to be apparent in several cases, referring to immediate and direct actions Turkey's High Council of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK) took against judges and prosecutors on account of their decisions.

Cüneyt Arcayürek, a veteran Turkish journalist, died on June 23 due to multiple organ failure. He was 87.

A lead columnist for daily Cumhuriyet, Arcayürek had been under treatment in a private hospital in Ankara since May 13. He will be laid to rest in the Gölba?? district of Ankara on June 25, without a funeral ceremony according to his bequest.

The Turkish women's basketball team will on June 24 play Serbia in the quarterfinals of Eurobasket Women 2015, hoping to qualify for the final of the continental event.

The Osmanbey district in Istanbul was the origin of more textile exports than 69 provinces across Turkey in the first five months of 2015, the head of the district's Textile Manufacturers and Businesspeople Association (OT?AD) has stated. 

The special vessel that was supposed to lay the pipes for the South Stream gas pipeline has left Bulgaria's Port Burgas to start work on the Turkish Stream gas pipeline project.