İzmir

Pegasus Airlines has reached an agreement to buy Air Berlin's 29.51 percent of stake in their subsidiary İzAir for 1.2 million euros, the carrier said in a written statement late on March 8. 

The share of the company in İzAir will increase to 98.63 percent after the deal is finalized and approved by authorities, according to the statement to the Public Disclosure Platform (KAP). 

Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım has mocked the leader of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, over the latter's remarks on the April 16 constitutional referendum that will decide whether the current parliamentary system should be replaced by an executive presidency. 

Seventeen police officers responsible for the security of Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım went down with food poisoning after eating in the Aegean province of İzmir late on March 7, Doğan News Agency has reported.

At least 130 migrants were apprehended off the Çeşme district in the Aegean province of İzmir as they attempted to reach the nearby Greek island of Chios on March 5, Turkish Coast Guard officials have said.      

A Turkish Coast Guard search-and-rescue ship found two boats with migrants trying to reach Greece.      

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has called on provincial governors to maintain impartiality during the April 16 referendum campaigns. 

We have to accept this now that in this country there is a devastating "sexual issue," which cannot be solved, and cannot be overcome. 

"Sex" hangs over our heads as a giant damnation. Because it is continuously oppressed with "bans and sins" and because there is a non-ending sexual hunger, every passing day, we are left face to face with an issue with sexual content.  

Police in the Aegean province of İzmir seized at least 40 tons of bootlegged rakı and whiskey and 100 tons of raw materials used in the production of alcoholic beverages, in a raid on Feb. 27, Doğan News Agency has reported.

Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmuş has said the government will hold an official ceremony in Ankara to mark the birthday of Caliph Ali, 27 years after the last time it was celebrated with the Alevi community of Turkey.

Outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants have detonated explosives during the passage of a cargo train in the Bağıvar neighborhood of the Sur district of the southeastern province of Diyarbakır. 

An Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) car bomb attack killed at least 27 civilians and six Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighters in northern Syria's strategic al-Bab area on Feb. 24, according to reliable sources from the region.