Kahramanmaraş

Top-ranked student fights to restore lost grades

A high school senior student who clinched the top spot in his school in the southern province of Antalya, is locked in a battle with official authorities and educational institutions as he faces the threat of restarting his high school education due to the erasure of all his four years' academic records, leaving him unrecognized as a student.

Truck crashes into Turkish funeral killing five

A truck crashed on a crowd of mourners Saturday in the southeastern Turkish province of Kahramanmaraş killing four people and injuring 25, officials said.

According to local press reports the brakes of the truck failed, sending it hurtling down a road overlooking a cemetery where dozens of people had gathered for a burial.

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