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Technology is being transformed into benefit in cooperation with Türk Telekom and the General Directorate of State Theaters Istanbul State Theater. The new social responsibility project, titled "Accessible Theater," aims to increase the participation of visually and hearing-impaired individuals in cultural and artistic events.

Bodrum's marina is facing threat of "becoming like the Marmara Sea," experts are warning, saying boats are dumping bilge water into the sea near the port causing pollution.

Veteran Turkish journalist Tufan Türenç, who was called "the man who knows everything" by his colleagues in the daily Hürriyet, where he worked for over three decades, has died at the age of 77 in the capital Ankara on April 23.

He was being treated in a hospital for some time for a heart condition.

His mother Sahide, who was 61 at the time, tried to get to her husband's cousins' house, but she was shot as she walked up the road. Wounded, she remained in the street for almost an hour.

"Some people who were hiding in the basement of a house saw her sitting on the roadside after being shot. It isn't known where she was shot, they only saw she was bleeding," Hasan Metushi said.

French President Hollande raises rights abuses with Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev at talks focused on its dispute with Armenia over Nagorny Karabakh French President Francois Hollande on April 25 raised rights abuses with Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev at talks focused on its dispute with Armenia over Nagorny Karabakh.