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Three-wheeled vans are being distributed to residents in the northwestern province of Edirne as part of a project implemented to prevent horse-drawn carriages from being used in freight transport.

Parliament Speaker Mustafa Şentop has dismissed claims that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan cannot run in the next presidential elections, recalling that he was given the right to serve as president for two terms in a constitutional amendment in 2017.

Representatives of Turkey's three largest cryptocurrency exchange platforms have conveyed demands under three main topics to a senior official of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP): Capital requirements, technology infrastructure and financial transparency.

Pope Francis on Dec. 5 returned to the island of Lesbos, the migration flashpoint he first visited in 2016, calling the neglect of migrants the "shipwreck of civilisation".

The pope has long championed the cause of migrants and his visit comes a day after he delivered a stinging rebuke to Europe which he said was "torn by nationalist egoism".

A Turkish-origin candidate will contest the presidential elections in Bulgaria for the first time.

The Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) party nominated Mustafa Karadayı to run for president.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu on Nov. 10 met the visiting head of Libya's High Council of State in the capital Ankara. 

"Discussed current political situation and latest developments with Khaled al-Mishri, the president of High Council of State of Libya," Çavuşoğlu said on Twitter. 

The presence of marine mucilage in the depths of the Marmara Sea has not been in an alarming situation but continues to be a threat, according to the latest exploration studies carried out on the surface and bottom of the sea by an expert.

Western embassies issued a statement in support of the LGTBQI+ Center located in Sofia after it was attacked by far-right nationalists on Saturday.

Far-Right Nationalist Group Destroyed a LGBTI Center in Sofia

Turkey on Oct. 19 marked the 18th anniversary of the death of Alija Izetbegovic, Bosnia and Herzegovina's first president and a pivotal figure in the troubled history of the Balkans.

A man in the Black Sea province of Tokat has won 200,000 Turkish Liras ($21,920) from a scratch card that his father had thrown into the wastebasket, thinking that there was no lottery prize.
"I don't know why I did it, but I felt it in my bones to check the wastebasket and look at the scratch card once again," Mustafa Aydınoğlu, 24-year-old son, told the Demirören News Agency.