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Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu announced on Saturday that the anti-terrorist operations, which the country has launched since Friday, are not over.

Davutoglu added that the operations are to last as long as the threats against Turkey continue to exist, Anadolu Agency reports.

The first cargo ships passed through Egypt's New Suez Canal on July 25 in a test-run before it opens next month, state media reported, 11 months after the army began constructing the $8 billion canal alongside the existing 145-year-old Suez Canal. 

Turkey's delicate peace process to end the Kurdish problem has reached a turning point with actors accusing each other, after an overnight attack by Turkish warplanes on its camps in northern Iraq.

This column on July 22 cited the deadly suicide bomb attack that killed 32 youngsters in the town of Suruç in the province of ?anl?urfa on the Syrian border as a declaration of war by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) on Turkey. 

A Turkish soldier has been killed by gunfire from across the Syrian border, triggering what was described as the first gunfight between Turkey's army and Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants.

Here are the updates as they were posted:

Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian near the city of Jenin in the northern West Bank on July 22 in clashes following an arrest raid, medical and security sources said.

Syrian rebels, including Al-Qaeda-affiliated fighters, have fired hundreds of rockets and mortar shells on two besieged Shiite-majority villages in the northwestern province of Idlib, a monitor said July 21.

In the past, for instance, if it had happened seven years ago, with the mindset, the prejudices and the superstitions of the time, we had an easy job. We would say ?It is the work of the deep state,? and move on?

A former Yugoslav general was arrested in Montenegro on July 19 on suspicion of having committed war crimes in the 1990s, an official source in Podgorica said.

Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu visited his party's headquarters in Istanbul for the occasion of Eid al-Fitr and delivered a speech, which moved party members. They then chanted slogans as such, "Ahmet Hodja, take us to the Ottoman times?"

Upon this, Prime Minister Davuto?lu replied, "Hopefully, we will bring the Ottoman order, the Ottoman justice to these days?"