Turkey

Analysis about what the June 7 election represented, and expectations as to what should happen now, vary depending on whether you are looking from the west or the east. The view from the west is easy to figure out. 

Turkmens, who have fled from Syria to Turkey due to the Syria?s ongoing war, have established a political party in Turkey?s southern province of Osmaniye. 

The Syria Turkmen Development Party was established in Osmaniye by a group of Syrian Turkmens, party leader Ömer ?sa and party spokesman Hasan Musullu said during a press meeting at their party?s headquarters. 

Pakistan?s Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has issued a notice to the country?s former Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani to return a necklace donated by the Turkish president?s wife after the 2010 floods in the country, Pakistan Today reported on its website on June 21. 

New members of the 550-seat Turkish parliament will take their oaths at the first session of the national assembly on June 23.

One of world?s richest businessmen, Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska, anchored two of his yachts off the idyllic coasts of Turkey?s Bodrum province on June 22. 

Deripaska headed to his yacht ?Sputnik? (R) after landing at the Milas-Bodrum Airport in his private jet. He then went aboard his other 75-meter yacht ?Queen K,? joining his wife Polina and their two children.

The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) announced it is meeting investors in London this week, with an eye to a "potential transaction in the near future."

Award-winning Armenian jazz pianist Tigran Hamasyan performed a concert on June 21 in the historic ruins of Ani, located on the Turkish-Armenian border. 

Three citizens of Afghanistan have been detained at the train station in Kaspichan. The arrest happened Sunday after the three people entered Bulgaria illegally in an international cargo train, as reported by BGNES.

Two leading members of the Turkish government have been poles apart regarding their attendance of a ceremony in which a controversial Iranian-Turkish businessman, involved in a huge corruption scandal that has since shaken the country, was awarded for his company's high export performance.

A court in Turkey's western province of Bal?kesir has suspended jail time given to a vice-principal who was convicted of sexually abusing four underage female students, on grounds that "an opinion was formed that he would not commit the same crime again," daily Milliyet reported.