Mehmet Ali

Business group proposes commission to resolve problems with US

The Turkey-U.S. Business Council (TAİK) has penned a letter to the U.S. President-elect Joe Biden proposing a commission to strengthen relations and solve the problems between the two countries on Dec. 17.

Signed by TAİK Chairman Mehmet Ali Yalçındağ, the letter congratulated Biden for his victory in the U.S. presidential election.

Bears storm village in Black Sea province

Some bears came from the wild to the Çiçekli village in the Çamlıhemşin district of the Black Sea province of Rize and destroyed around 25 houses in the Kale village while looking for food.

"The bears damaged the doors and the windows with their claws and shattered whatever they found inside the houses," said Mehmet Ali Yanmışoğlu, the muhtar (local head) of the village.

Compulsory religion class 'against the law,' court in Turkey's south rules

A court in the southern province of Antalya has ruled that compulsory religion classes are "openly against the law," following a complaint filed by an atheist family. 

An atheist family applied to court in order to exempt their child, identified only by the initials as E.D., from compulsory religion classes, Doğan News Agency reported on March 15.

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