Rumi

A total of 14 suspects were arrested early on Feb. 22 over a deadly car bomb attack in the Turkish capital that killed at least 28 people and left 61 injured on Feb. 17.

Some 14 suspects were transferred to court on Feb. 21 with a demand for their arrest while seven others were released after interrogation by a prosecutor.

U.S. authorities have asked the German carmaker Volkswagen to produce electric vehicles in the United States as a way of making up for its rigging of emission tests, the German newspaper Welt am Sonntag reported. 

Japan's nuclear power-reliant utility Kansai Electric Power said yesterday it had found a pool of contaminated water at a nuclear reactor slated to restart in late February after years of being shut down. 

The Pera Museum in collaboration with Goethe-Institut Istanbul will present a special "Long Friday Concert." Hezarfen Ensemble will perform composer Mark Andre's works on Feb. 26.  

Turkey detained 29 Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) suspects, including 14 children, during an attempt to infiltrate Turkish territory from Syria, Turkish Armed Forces has announced. 

A Syrian journalist detained in Turkey while applying for a residence permit says he has been freed.      

The outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has released three reporters working for Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency after abducting them in the Nusaybin district of the southeastern province of Mardin.

A wounded soldier has succumbed to his wounds at the Gülhane Medical Academy (GATA) in Ankara, three days after sustaining injuries in an outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) attack in southeastern Diyarbak?r province. 

Police and soldiers have dispersed a group that arrived in the Black Sea province of Artvin to lend support to locals and environmentalists groups that have been protesting a new gold mine.

The police used tear gas against the group of about 1,000, which tried to go into the city, passing over the barricades on Feb. 20.

Some protesters were reportedly detained.

Turkish writers mourn Umberto Eco, Italy's world-known author and philosopher, who died Feb. 19 at he age of 84.

The writer of several groundbreaking books Eco had been suffering from cancer and passed away at 10.30 p.m. [2130 GMT] local time, Italian media reported.

Best-selling Turkish crime novelist Ahmet Ümit described his sorrow on social media on Feb. 20.