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U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi pays a working visit to Turkey to discuss migration and refugee-related subjects in the meetings, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said on Sept. 8.

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Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu discussed the latest developments in Afghanistan, migration management, and humanitarian aid to refugees with Grandi.

Turkey has held nearly 95,000 irregular migrants since the start of this year, the country's deputy interior minister said on Sept. 6. 

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A total of 94,915 irregular migrants, including 40,098 Afghans, have been held since the beginning of the year, Ismail Çataklı told a monthly news conference in the capital Ankara.

Turkey will rebuild 60 houses burned in a fire in northeastern Artvin province, the environment and urbanization minister said on March 18. 

Turkey's foreign trade volume grew 3.6 percent year-on-year to $98.4 billion in the first quarter of 2020, according to a preliminary Trade Ministry data released on April 2.

The country's exports volume was choked off by coronavirus in January-March after seeing 4 percent rise in the first two months, the ministry said in a statement. 

Greece's Ministry of Culture and Religious Affairs has said it is granting space at two stadiums in Athens where the Greek capital's Muslims can gather for Eid al-Adha, the Festival of Sacrifice, on Friday.

The Kardzhali District Court imposed a nine-year prison sentence on the initial regime of 27-year-old Nagyye Musa and her 23-year-old brother, Ismail, for killing a baby.

Police in Manchester say they have arrested three more men in connection with the suicide bombing at a pop concert that killed 22 people, according to CBC News.

They said Wednesday the arrests had been made in the south of the U.K. city, where a day earlier a 23-year-old man was also arrested and a number of homes were searched.

British authorities released a photo of the Salman Abedi, 22, the Islamist suicide attacker who carried out Monday’s deadly attack killing 22 people at the Manchester Arena. In the ph0to taken some year back, the man appears to be wearing Islamic garb at a religious school.

Over the weekend my wife and I went to see the film "The Ottoman Lieutenant," directed by Joseph Ruben. It narrates the story of the love between an Ottoman officer and an American nurse in Van, the city that became a milestone with an Armenian insurgency in 1915. 

A new film portraying incidents in Eastern Anatolia during World War I through the eye of a U.S. nurse has been finished.