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Turkish staff member at Sweden’s consulate in western Turkey shot, seriously wounded

A Turkish staff member at Sweden's honorary consulate in the western city of Izmir was shot and seriously wounded in front of the consulate building, TRT state broadcaster said on Tuesday.

Izmir's governor's office said in a statement a Turkish citizen registered to the eastern province of Agri has been apprehended.

The police are investigating the incident, it added.

Over 16,000 schools provided with libraries

Some 16,000 libraries have been established across the country in two months, said the education minister.

Speaking at the opening ceremony of the library in a high school in the capital Ankara, named after psychiatrist Erol Göka, Education Minister Mahmut Özer said that 16,361 schools that did not have a library have been provided with libraries in the last two months.

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