Anadolu Agency

Istanbul is set to mark May 1, International Workers' Day, in a different venue than the contested and symbolic Taksim Square due to security concerns, with this year's celebrations to be held in the Bak?rköy bazaar area amid tight security measures.

Signing a free trade agreement with Qatar is a major goal for Turkey, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu said April 28, according to Reuters.

Davuto?lu, on an official visit to the Gulf nation, made the comment in a speech at a business forum which was organized by the Foreign Economic Relations Board (DE?K). 

Turkish Super League leader Be?ikta? will take on Kayserispor on April 30 at its new home with the hopes of avoiding any more slip-ups in the title run-in.

The Istanbul side is feeling the heat from rival Fenerbahçe after last week's draw with Aknisar Belediyespor, which it only achieved thanks to a last-minute goal by Cenk Tosun on April 23.

A total of 15 suspects have been detained in four different Turkish provinces in relation to the suicide bomb attack that struck the Marmara province of Bursa on April 28. A female suicide bomber detonated herself at around 5:25 p.m. near Ulu Cami, a mosque at the center of the province, on April 27, leaving 23 people wounded. 

The head of the Chefs Association of South Aegean Marmaris (GEMAD) has been fined 208 Turkish Liras for creating a Turkish flag using spices to mark Turkey's Youth and Sports Day on May 19 last year, after a number of people filed complaints alleging the group had violated the law by laying the flag on the ground and stepping on it in the touristic town of Marmaris in Turkey's southwestern prov

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has unveiled a statue of South African anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela in the West Bank city of Ramallah. 

The unveiling ceremony on April 27 was attended by Palestinian government ministers, diplomats, the leaders of various Palestinian factions and hundreds of Palestinian citizens.

Russia's state-owned Rosatom has put 49 percent of its share in the to-be-built Akkuyu nuclear plant in Turkey on sale after obstacles in financing emerged with the economic problems in Russia, Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency reported on April 27.

Turkey must stimulate local tourism as local tourists make up just one-tenth of the country's tourists in a bid to recover recent losses in the sector, according to a leading sector representative. 

Six workers were hospitalized due to gas poisoning in a coal mine that belongs to Demir Export in the western Turkish province of Manisa's Soma district early on April 26. 

Two specialized sergeants and a soldier were killed in a bomb attack by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the eastern province of Tunceli on April 22 when militants detonated a bomb while an armored military vehicle was passing by.

The incident occurred at the 25th kilometer of the Tunceli-Elaz?? road at around 10 a.m., after which a security operation was launched.