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A painting seized by Turkish authorities that was reported to be a stolen Picasso is a fake, the Picasso Administration, charged with managing the artist's estate, said on Feb. 1.

The organization said the canvas is a copy of a 1940 work by the great Spanish artist, "Woman Dressing Her Hair," and the original is in the hands of New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).

A Diyarbak?r court has sentenced a potential rapist to 7.5 years in jail after his attempt to assault his 18-year-old aunt was prevented by the woman's "heroic" cat. 

The woman, identified only by the initials H.T., avoided an attempted rape by her sister's son-in-law in 2014 after her cat named "Minno?" lunged at the 20-year-old attacker, identified only by the initials S.B. 

An Istanbul prosecutor has demanded that daily Cumhuriyet columnist Özgür Mumcu be sentenced to four years and eight months in jail for "insulting" Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an. 

Fatalities among migrants and refugees in the Mediterranean in January topped 360 due to a particularly deadly final weekend of the month, when over 100 men, women in and children died in the waters off Greece, Turkey and Italy, the International Organization for Migrations said on Tuesday.

Russian gas giant Gazprom said on Feb. 2 its gas exports to Turkey increased by 3.4 percent in January from the same month a year earlier to 2.82 billion cubic meters (bcm), said Chairman of the company's management committee Alexey Miller on Feb. 2, adding that the country is still Gazprom's second-biggest customer now.

During the press briefing government’s spokesperson Olga Gerovasili was asked about the possibility of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras granting a TV channel license to a Turkish channel.

The sharp fall in oil prices is unlikely to benefit Turkey's sovereign rating in the coming year, Standard and Poor's said on Feb. 2, as it pointed to other pressures on the country.