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A ceremony was held at Sedef Shipyard, at Tuzla, on Istanbul's Asian side, a couple of days ago. It was the first step for building Turkey's first aircraft carrier. In this giant shipyard, the new multipurpose amphibious assault ship called the TGC Anadolu is to be built.

There is a lot of talk about a rift between President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an and Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu. Davuto?lu denies this but the general feeling is that there can be no smoke without fire.

Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmu? said that Turkey has foiled a total of 49 suicide bombing or car bomb attacks by terror groups upon intelligence since January.

"A total of 85 major terror attacks, 49 of which were suicide or car bomb attacks, were prevented upon intelligence since January," he said after a cabinet meeting under President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an.

Neither an early election nor an extraordinary party congress is on the agenda of Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), a veteran executive of the party has said, amid rising speculation over the party's highest decision-making body's move to remove the authority to appoint provincial party officials from Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu.

Turkey's first electric car, the Pehlivan Elektrak developed by Trakya University, has returned to the country after a two-week trip around the Balkan Peninsula. 

The fiber carbon car visited Greece, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Albania, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina during the 14-day tour. 

Terror attacks in two seperate Turkish provinces in the southeast killed five soldiers and two police officers over the weekend.

Two police officers were killed in a bomb attack on a police headquarters in the southeastern province of Gaziantep on the morning of May 1, Gov. Ali Yerlikaya has confirmed. 

Turkey has launched the building phase of its amphibious landing platform dock (LPD) warship for the Turkish Naval Forces with a ceremony on April 30. 

Istanbul-based shipbuilder Sedef has been contracted by the Undersecretary for Defense Industries (SSM) to build the warship for the Turkish Naval Forces. 

A fundraising event headed by the Turkish Business Women's Association (T?KAD) has raised more than 2 million Turkish Liras for families who have lost their loved ones in terror acts. 

With rising security concerns due to attacks by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) as well as the ongoing conflict between Turkey's security forces and militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an will chair a cabinet meeting on May 2, the sixth one he has called since coming to power. 

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has praised an Ottoman army victory over British forces a century ago, during World War I, as he refuted a history approach that took War of Independence as the starting point of modern Turkey.