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Turkey-US bilateral trade set to break new record: TAİK chair
Turkey's trade volume with the United States reached $25 billion in the first 11 months of this year, Turkey-U.S. Business Council (TAİK) chair Mehmet Ali Yalçındağ has said.
Parliament takes measures to prevent lawmaker stress
The parliamentary administration took measures to prevent deputies from accumulating stress and tension in the General Assembly Hall of the parliament, where fierce debates and even fist-fighting took place from time to time.
TAİK appreciates results of Erdoğan-Biden meeting
Turkey-U.S. Business Council (TAİK) chair Mehmet Ali Yalçındağ has hailed "the mutual understanding for common interests" expressed by the Turkish and U.S. presidents in their meeting in Brussels on June 14.
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Businesses urge ‘turning white page’ in Ankara-Washington relations
A group of Turkish and American businesses has sent a joint letter to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his U.S. counterpart, Joe Biden, ahead of the two's meeting on June 14.
Court gives five times aggravated life sentences to serial killer
A Turkish court on Feb. 25 handed down five sentences of aggravated life imprisonment plus an additional 24 years in jail to a man who implicated in up to 12 murders mainly targeting elderly couples.
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.
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Footage emerges of deadly election clash in Turkey's southeast
In this security camera footage of the shop, AKP İbrahim Yıldız is seen wearing a navy blue suit and his brother Mehmet Ali in a white shirt next to him.
Lost stele found buried in a garden
An ancient funerary stele, unearthed last year during construction work in the Central Anatolian province of Konya's Ereğli district and claimed to have been sold, was found on May 3 buried in the garden of the digging company.
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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.