Anadolu Agency

The Arab League has failed to understand Turkey's self-sacrificing and resolved efforts against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in the region, Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman Tanju Bilgiç said on Dec. 26.

The Arab League has failed to understand Turkey's self-sacrificing and resolved efforts against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in the region, Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman Tanju Bilgiç has said.

A high-tech economy is growing in Turkey's capital, according to Nurettin Özdebir, the head of Ankara's Chamber of Industry.

"Ankara is becoming a center for high-technology, with local innovation exceeding that of Istanbul," Özdebir told Anadolu Agency.

The northwestern town of Ke?an is home to the worst air pollution in Turkey, figures from the Environment Ministry have revealed.

Ke?an, a district in Edirne province, has the most polluted air, partly due to the large amounts of coal that are used for heating, the Turkish Environment and Urbanization Ministry said.

Members of the Greek minority in Istanbul marked Christmas on Thursday by taking out a celebration rally on Istiklal Street, Beyoglu (Pera), where they sang their traditional carols “Kalanta” and handed out sweets.

Dozens of Greeks gathered in front of the 19th century Greek school, Zografeion Lyceum. They then marked to the Consulate General of Greece.

Turkey's newly elected parliament speaker has waded into an ongoing debate over a possible transition to a presidential system, underlining the need for consensus in any kind of change to the country's governance system as well as the need to eliminate "discord" in governance.

Turkey has ranked as the world's top country for the number of eye surgeries done annually according to a senior Health Ministry official, as over 40,000 operations are carried out yearly in Turkey, mainly on foreign patients amid rapidly rising demand. 

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu has asked for an appointment from opposition party leaders in order to discuss a number of issues, including the drafting of a new constitution.

Three members of Turkish security forces were killed during the clashes with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) while one teenager and one woman were killed during clashes in the region.

One soldier was killed and six were wounded, including a civilian, in a PKK attack in the curfew-declared Sur district of the southeastern Diyarbak?r province on Dec. 23.

An explosion at the Sabiha Gokcen airport in the Turkish city of Istanbul early on Wednesday left one woman of the cleaning staff dead and another injured.

The two women were inside an aircraft at the time of the explosion and were transported to hospital, where one of them passed away due to the fatal injuries she had sustained.