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A British groom and an Indian bride, who have become the latest foreigners to choose Turkey as their wedding destination, have tied the knot in a 48-hour-long wedding ceremony held in the southwestern province of Muğla.

A British-made documentary about pervasive gender-based violence in Turkey has been selected as the United Kingdom's Oscar nominee for the 94th Academy Awards, to be held in March in Los Angeles.

Directed by Chloe Fairweather, "Dying to Divorce" has been selected to represent Britain at the Oscars as the official entry in the Best International Feature Film category.

Some 13,000 truckloads of mud have been removed from the Black Sea province of Kastamonu's Bozkurt district that was hit by a flood on Aug. 11, the interior minister has announced.

"It is two weeks after the disaster… 13,000 truckloads of mud removed, Some 1,207 truckloads of humanitarian aid delivered to the site," Süleyman Soylu tweeted on Aug. 26.

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As 33 people are still missing after severe floods ravaged parts of the country's Black Sea coast, rescue teams are working round the clock, with excavators clearing the sludge and building wreckage that was left behind, hoping to save them.

The government will help victims of the flash floods recover, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Aug. 13 on his visit to the disaster-hit Kastamonu province in the Black Sea region.

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Members of nationalist Greek Cypriot political parties, especially the far-right ELAM, have requested the change of some Turkish street names from the local authorities of the city of Larnaca, where Turkish and Greek Cypriot communities lived together before 1974.