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The percentage of elderly people in the total population has reached 9.7, with only 0.3 percent left to call Türkiye an "old country," the statistics have showed.

According to the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK), the number of the people over the age of 65 in Türkiye is exactly 8,245,124. Country's total population is around 84 million.

Turkey's Supreme Court of Appeals has annulled the dismissal of allegations against the former mayor of Istanbul's ?i?li district, Mustafa Sar?gül, and his son Emir Sar?gül in an investigation launched after the wife of current ?i?li Mayor Hayri ?nönü accused the Sar?güls of pressuring ?nönü to resign using death threats. 

One worker died on Feb. 23 after falling through an elevator shaft at a construction site in Istanbul, located next to the construction site of Torunlar Center, where 10 workers were killed in a workplace accident last September.