İzmir

A man who attacked and injured a young woman on a public bus in Istanbul for wearing shorts on Sept. 12 has said he would not have attacked the woman if she had dressed "properly," according to his testimony obtained by daily Hürriyet.

Police officers have launched a new wave of operations at the lodgings of the country's largest petrochemicals company, PETKİM, in the Aegean province of İzmir, as part of the ongoing investigation into the Fethullahist Terror Organization (FETÖ), which has been accused of orchestrating the failed coup attempt of July 15, detaining at least 13 suspects.

Police detained 13 suspects on Sept. 20 at the lodgings of Turkey's biggest petrochemicals company, PETKİM, in the Aliağa district of İzmir as part of the ongoing investigation into the Fetullahist Terror Organization (FETÖ), which has been accused of orchestrating the failed coup attempt of July 15.

The bassoon, a woodwind musical instrument with a history going back some 500 years, will be able to be tuned like many other instruments thanks to the work of two artists in Turkey who have developed a new design. 

Pilot Maj. Esra Özatay has been appointed to the commander of the "Türk Yıldızları" (Turkish Stars) air acrobatics team's 134th Squadron, becoming the first female military officer to hold such post in the history of the Turkish Air Force.

The number of visitors to museums and ancient sites in the western Turkish province of İzmir, operated by the İzmir Provincial Culture and Tourism Directorate, decreased by 36.6 percent in the first seven months of 2016 compared to the same period last year. 

Revenues in the same term also fell to 6.4 million Turkish Liras, marking a 29.5 percent decrease.

A total of 11 people have been detained in simultaneous operations against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) carried out in several districts of Istanbul.

Police carried out operations at 13 different addresses in five districts, Anadolu Agency reported. 

Thousands of people took to streets on July 16 to protest the coup attempt in the country.

Protesters waving flags gathered in Istanbul's Taksim Square. The group also staged a marched toward the central Istiklal Avenue.

Two militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) were sentenced to aggravated life imprisonment for killing three villagers in the country's southeast in August 2012, before committing a bomb attack in the Aegean province of İzmir's Foça district which killed two soldiers.

Turkey's famous reed and baglama virtuoso, Ömer Faruk Tekbilek, says it is a gift from God that his team is made up of Greek, Armenian and Jewish musicians, as well as Turks. 

Synthesizing Eastern and Western melodies with folkloric and Sufi music in his works, Tekbilek is an internationally-acclaimed artist.