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The main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) has called on the Workers’ Party (İP) to support the opposition’s joint presidential candidate, Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu.

The call came as representatives from political parties exchanged greetings for Eid al-Fitr.

The declaration of a “caliphate” by Islamist militants in Iraq lacks legitimacy and their death threats to Christians are a danger to civilization, the head of Turkey’s religious authority has said.

The Islamic State, an armed group that has captured territory across Iraq, declared its leader, Ibrahim al-Baghdadi, “caliph” last month. 

The Mediterranean province of Antalya, known as one of Turkey’s top tourism centers, will soon have a women-only beach, Antalya Mayor Menderes Türel has announced.

The Sarısu beach will be turned into a free of charge, women-only beach before the Islamic holy month of Ramadan ends on July 27, Türel said during a fast-breaking iftar meal at a municipal nursing home on July 16.

Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu met with Muslim religious leaders in a fast-breaking dinner on July 12 in a move to break “the perception that the CHP is against religion.”

Turkey should solve the Kurdish issue in peaceful terms, said Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu, joint candidate of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), calling for the continuation of the unitary state.

“We have to solve this in peace. We have paid a big price for this,” he said during an interview on broadcaster Halk TV.

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is a great critic of the political tradition represented by the Republican People Party (CHP). For him, that tradition represents one-party rule, and governance imposed from above. He hit out at the party again after he was nominated by the Justice and Development Party (AKP) to run for president.

British author Andrew Mango, who is well-known for his works on Turkey and the Turkish Republic’s founding father Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, has died at the age of 88.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has vowed to remain active if he is elected president.

"I'm not leaving you. I'm not pausing to serve. I'm not going to rest. In contrary, I'm nominated to a higher post to serve you, my country and my nation, better," Erdoğan said during his first presidential campaign rally in the Black Sea city of Samsun on July 5. 

Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu, the joint presidential candidate of the Republican People’s Party (CHP) and Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), started his official campaign June 30 by visiting Anıtkabir, where the Turkish Republic’s founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk is buried.

Sometimes the three most unrelated words can tell you a lot about a country when they are found on the news on the same day.