İrfan Balkanlıoğlu

Turkish teenager fined 2,202 liras over photo of cat with eyes gouged out

A 16-year-old girl in the northwestern province of Sakarya's Adapazarı district, who had shared on social media photographs of a cat with eyes gouged out, has been fined 2,202 Turkish Liras by the authorities. 

The girl, identified only as Suda A., had shared on Aug. 22 a photograph of a cat with eyes gouged out along with a statement: "What I like the most."

Seven dead after tractor carrying workers overturns in Turkey's Sakarya

At least seven people were killed and nine others were injured after a tractor carrying nut workers overturned in the Hendek district of the northwestern province of Sakarya on Aug. 18.

The cause of the accident in the Köseköy neighborhood at around 7:25 a.m. was not immediately known.