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Turkey's disaster agency is not only housing and assisting the country's nearly 3 million refugees but also actively working to help 40 disaster-stricken countries around the world, the president of the Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) has told daily Hürriyet upon receiving the 20th prestigious Ayd?n Do?an Award for its outstanding efforts in Turkey and abroad. 

The main target of rockets fired the by Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) on April 24 was the Kilis Governor's Office building and Deputy Prime Minister Yalç?n Akdo?an, who was visiting the southeastern border province at the time, according to Kilis Mayor Hasan Kara, who called on the town's residents who have left over mounting security concerns to return. 

The U.S.-led coalition hit Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) targets in northern Syria, located directly across Turkey's Syrian border from the southeastern province of Kilis, after receiving coordinates from Turkey on April 25. The air strikes came in response to a series of ISIL attacks on Kilis, which houses more Syrian refugees than its population.

One person was killed and 10 others were wounded when a second explosion has occurred in the border province of Kilis on April 24, Deputy Prime Minister Yalç?n Akdo?an has announced.

Two Katyusha projectiles fired from Syria hit a mosque, just 100 meters away from the Kilis Governor's Office. 

A second explosion has occurred in the border province of Kilis on April 24 when another two rockets hit the province, hours after an earlier incident which left 16 wounded.

Two projectiles fired from Syria hit a mosque, just 100 meters away from the Kilis Governor's Office. 

According to initial reports, there were injuries in the incident.

Two members of the nationalist Turkish Youth Union (TGB) were detained after trying to put a sack over a U.S. soldier's head at the ?ncirlik Air Base in the southern province of Adana on April 16. 

Footage of the incident shows TGB Adana Provincial Head Yalç?n Semir Akarsu chasing the U.S. soldier and attempting to put a sack over his head.

Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Yalç?n Akdo?an, a highly visible figure with a large portfolio already, has been tasked with the additional duties of coordinating both the government's fight against the activities of the "parallel state structure," a purported illegal organization allegedly led by U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, and its activities concerning Syrian refugees.

While 70 percent of Syrians in Germany are university graduates, only two percent of Syrians in Turkey are skilled workers, a senior academic at Hacettepe University's Migration and Politics Research Center has said, warning over the difficulties of integrating Syrians in the country.

The main opposition Republican People's Party's (CHP) has filed a criminal complaint into President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an, Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu, National Intelligence Organization (M?T) Chief Hakan Fidan and other senior officials, on charges of "aiding and abetting a terrorist organization." The complaint relates to their involvement the long-stalled peace process aimed at ending the

Volunteers in Turkey's ?zmir have opened the doors of their "leisure garden" to Syrian refugee children, in order to provide basic social needs for the traumatized children.

The Basmane district of ?zmir, an Aegean province, is known as a "hot spot" or transition point for refugees seeking to cross into Europe through the Aegean Sea illegally, despite risk of death.