Mehmet Öztürk

A bakery owner receiving treatment in the intensive care unit in northwestern Turkey said he regretted not having his COVID-19 jab in time, urging others to get vaccinated as soon as possible.

Restaurants in the Karakoçan district of the eastern province of Elazığ have been offering free food to those in need for the past 70 years as part of a practice adopted years ago. 

Restaurant owners in Karakoçan adopted the decision to implement the "Table for the Impoverished" 70 years ago and have been serving free food to those in need at tables reserved for them ever since. 

"A Season of Daphne," directed by Mehmet Öztürk, won the award for best picture at the 9th Montreal Turkish Film Festival on May 21.  

The film depicts a love triangle between a girl and two brothers living in Hatay, a southern province bordering Syria which has been hosting a number of different communities for many years.  

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been investigating an Islamic State Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) cell known as the "Dokumacılar" since a suicide attack killed two U.S. citizens and two others on Istanbul's İstiklal Avenue on March 19, 2016, according to revelations from a case file at the Istanbul Chief Prosecutor's Office.

Protests have been carried out by different groups in Turkey over the past two days against the Netherlands, amid escalating row between the two countries after a Turkish minister was barred from speaking at an event in Rotterdam. 

A shopkeeper in the Kahta district of the southeastern province of Adıyaman has filed a criminal complaint against the Netherlands's king, prime minister and other government officials after Turkish ministers were banned from entering the country, escalating tensions between the Netherlands and Turkey, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

Erkan Çapkın, an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) suspect being tried in the case into the deadly March 2016 bombing on Istanbul's İstiklal Avenue, has been released from custody with a ban on traveling abroad, with the court citing his health problems.

An indictment prepared by the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office has demanded a total of 18 aggravated life sentences for five Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants related to the deadly suicide attack on İstiklal Avenue in central Istanbul on March 19.

A derby match between Galatasaray and Fenerbahçe, which was scheduled to be played on March 20 but canceled due to security concerns over a possible terror attack, has been rescheduled to April 13.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on March 23 that he was hopeful that upcoming negotiations between Israel and Turkey "will produce positive results" and enable the renewal of relations between the two countries.