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The authorities plan to implement even stricter practices during curfews imposed in districts in Turkey's southeast for military operations targeting the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), daily Hürriyet has reported.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter has praised a new "Saudi-led Islamic anti-terrorism alliance" as being "in line with U.S. calls for a greater Sunni role" in the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). He was speaking during a visit to Turkey's ?ncirlik air base on Dec. 15, which came only a day after the Pentagon gave a conceptual briefing about the front to U.S.

Finally, somebody has told the plain truth as it is. That person was Professor Beril Dedeo?lu, an international relations professor and the EU minister in Turkey's pre-election government. 

"Russia will be the captain of restructuring Syria, with or without Bashar al-Assad," Dedeo?lu recently told Al Jazeera. This means the mighty NATO is leaving the organizing role to Russia.  

A K?r?ehir court has begun trying six arrested suspects and 11 others for violent attacks against the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) and Kurds in the Central Anatolian province early in September. 

Bulgaria has presented to a potential Chinese investor the opportunities for possible cooperation in the construction of a new unit at Kozloduy nuclear power plant, the Energy Ministry in Sofia said on Tuesday.

"A delegation from a Chinese corporation operating nuclear plants visited Kozloduy nuclear power plant," the Energy Ministry said in a statement.

The continuance of social tensions has constituted a considerable risk in the economy, although political stability has been maintained after the elections, said a leading Turkish businessman. 

A spokeswoman of Los Angeles police department confirmed that the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD ) received a threat.

Police, though, could not confirm the validity or specificity of the threat.

The threat was made to “students at school,” LAUSD Superintendent Ramon Cortines said at a press conference Tuesday morning.

A suspected militant of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), who is thought to have planned an attack on the U.S. Consulate in Istanbul, was arrested by court on Dec. 15 after being detained in the southern Turkish province of Kahramanmara?.

The last and biggest meteor event of this year, the Geminid meteor shower, occurred in Turkey on Dec 14. This photo shows the visual spectacle over Antalya's ancient Aspendos Theater.

53 photographs from 2015 testify to the Syrian refugee crisis

In Photos: Clashes erupt in Diyarbak?r as police ban rally to protest curfew

Officials from the Ere?li Museum Directorate have found a nearly 2,000-year-old and 100-kilogram wall frieze in a village in the Ere?li district of Zonguldak province in northern Turkey.

The frieze is a sculptured stone depicting a number of figures and is around one meter long.