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The world's most famous wax museum, Madame Tussauds, is set to open a branch on Istanbul's İstiklal Avenue on Nov. 28. 

At a press conference before the official opening, Sarper Hilmi Suner, the General Director of Legoland Discovery Center and Madame Tussauds in Istanbul, said the museum featured wax figures with a history going back 250 years.

Some 1,124 books of Turkish literature have been translated into 60 languages in 65 countries as part of a project that was first launched 11 years ago, the Culture and Tourism Ministry has said.

A Turkish soldier has succumbed to wounds sustained in a Feb. 8 attack by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), while being treated at the Gülhane Military Academy (GATA) in Ankara. 

Eleven suspects have been brought to an Ankara court in a case filed to persecute those alleged of eavesdropping on Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an during his prime ministry, accused of "being members of a terrorist organization."

Unknown assailants attacked a gendarmerie post in the Kemalpa?a district of Turkey's Aegean province of ?zmir on Feb. 23, using rocket-propelled grenades. No casualties have been reported.

The rocket hit the building next to the command post, causing damage, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

A baby gorilla has been delivered by a rare caesarean section at a British zoo in an operation performed by a hospital gynaecologist, the zoo said on Feb. 23.

Vets at Bristol zoo in western England called in expert medical help after the mother Kera showed signs of potentially life-threatening pre-eclampsia. 

A 3-year-old Egyptian boy has been sentenced to life in prison for a crime he allegedly committed when he was 16 months old, CNN International reported on Feb. 23. 

In what appears to be a bizarre case of mistaken identity, a military court Feb. 16 found Ahmed Mansour Qorany Sharara - and 115 others - guilty of killing three people and sabotaging public and private property.

Chocolate giant Mars on Feb. 23 ordered a massive recall of Mars and Snickers bars from 55 countries after a piece of plastic found in one bar was traced back to its Dutch factory.

Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Sehalattin Demirta? has called the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) an "extension of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)," while ruling out that the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) in northern Syria was attacking Turkey.

The Seyfe Lake Nature Reserve, which dries up and turns into dust of cloud during summer, has received a rush of by migratory birds like flamingos, ruddy shelduck and cranes as its water level increased.