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Turkish police on Oct. 19 fatally shot an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militant who was believed to be planning a suicide bomb attack in the capital. 

The man was killed in a raid on a ninth-floor apartment in the Eryaman neighborhood on the province's outskirts after he ignored warnings to surrender and opened fire on police, Ankara Gov. Ercan Topaca said.

Turkish police on Oct. 19 fatally shot an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militant who was believed to be planning a suicide bomb attack in the capital. 

The man was killed in a raid on a ninth-floor apartment in the Eryaman neighborhood on the province's outskirts after he ignored warnings to surrender and opened fire on police, Ankara Gov. Ercan Topaca said.

Police detained some 25 suspects on Oct. 15 over an explosion in the southern resort of Antalya on Oct. 14, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

Police organized simultaneous operations across the country, including in the capital Ankara as well as Istanbul, to detain the suspects.

The United States strongly supports a proposal to transport Israeli gas to Europe via Turkey with the side aim of ensuring peace and stability in the Middle East, John Bass, the U.S. ambassador to Ankara, told Anadolu Agency on Oct. 13.      

Ankara prosecutors issued warrants for 215 Ankara Police Department personnel, including senior officials, on Oct. 12 as part of a probe into the Gülenist movement on suspicions that the personnel were using the ByLock program, a messaging application that is said to have been used by the group for concealed conversations, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

The main courthouse in the southern resort of Antalya was evacuated over a false bomb scare on Oct. 6, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

Antalya Chief Public Prosecutor Ramazan Solmaz told the agency that the courthouse was evacuated as a precautionary measure over a bomb threat.

Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency launched its first global photo exhibition in the Austrian capital of Vienna on Sept. 27, displaying around 40 pictures covering key global events in 2015.

American investors and businessmen were “impressed” with Turkey’s rapid recovery despite recent setbacks in its political and security spheres, a Turkish official told Anadolu Agency on Sept. 23

Police have detained a total of 16 suspects in an operation against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Istanbul. The operation was carried out in five districts, Anadolu Agency reported on Sept. 22.

The principal of a school in the Ulaş district of the Central Anatolian province of Sivas painted his institution during the summer break "to enhance the school environment," Anadolu Agency reported on Sept. 19.