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Top US diplomat John Kerry will meet with Cuban dissidents during his historic trip to Cuba, he said on August 12. 

A deputy from the Republican People's Party (CHP) has submitted a motion of inquiry to parliament regarding the living conditions of inmates in Turkish prisons and their compliances or disconformities to universal human rights.

A group of regional NGOs on Tuesday welcomed the decision of Brussels not to fund a project on women's rights run by the Montenegro-based Institute for Public Policy, found by Vladimir Popovic "Beba".

The European Commission has this month approved 23 multiannual national programmes under the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF) and the Internal Security Fund (ISF). The total funding for the agreed programmes is approximately €2.4 billion, for the period 2014-2020.

Baby caretta carettas, or loggerhead turtles, enchanted visitors in the Kemer district of the southern resort province of Antalya when they hatched from their eggs and left their nests to meet the Mediterranean waters.

Online campaigns and events have been the go-to tools for raising the profile of International Youth Day, celebrated on Aug. 12, and spreading the discussion on youth civic engagement The engagement of youth in civil society will soon be a major discussion topic across the world, as Aug. 12 is International Youth Day, a day designated by the United Nations and celebrated since 2010.

Thousands gathered for a demonstration in Istanbul's Bak?rköy district on Aug. 9, to call for peace in an event organized by the Peace Bloc, which consists of around 80 civil society organizations and is supported by the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) and some deputies from the Republican People's Party (CHP).  

Ukraine has stepped up to establish a troop of Muslims, leader of Crimean Tatars, Mustafa Abdülcemil K?r?mo?lu, said on Aug. 3.

The troops will be deployed in the Kherson region on the Crimean border and would monitor transportation of goods and people between Ukraine and the peninsula, he said speaking at a congress. 

Turkey's prime minister vowed his government will continue to preserve the balance of security and freedom in the ongoing fight against separatist terrorism amid concerns that the anti-terror struggle also targets the democratically elected Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) and its leaders. 

Russian prosecutors on July 28 declared the US Congress-funded National Endowment for Democracy the first "undesirable" foreign group under a controversial new law to ban overseas organisations deemed a threat.