Anatolia

The business world is eagerly awaiting economic reforms following the Nov. 1 elections that brought the Justice and Development Party (AKP) to power alone, said Güler Sabanc?, the chairwoman of one of the largest conglomerates of the country. 

A total of 22 people were detained in Nov. 4 in operations targeting the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party's (PKK) youth and urban wings in Istanbul and Adana, respectively. 

The 650-year-old Zeynel Bey Tomb, located in the historical Hasankeyf district of the southeastern province of Batman, will be removed in order to protect the artifact from the ongoing Il?su Dam Project which will eventually inundate the site.

After years of fighting climate change - and usually losing - Turkey's farmers are turning to modern technology for a deceptively simple solution. Under a government project that aims to promote flexible, sustainable farming, specially developed monitoring and information satellite systems now provide farmers with the data they need to continuously adapt to unpredictable weather.

The chair of pro-Kurdish Rights and Liberties Party (HAK-PAR), Fehmi Demir, was killed on Oct. 25 in a car crash in the southern province of Mersin.

Demir crashed into an Austrian-plated car operated by Hac? Murat Do?u that had turned over on the Tarsus-Adana-Gaziantep highway.

Demir and Do?u died at the scene.

A Turkish columnist and programmer was detained on Oct. 19 in the southern province of Adana for an article he wrote about an incident at a religious school in 2014.

Mehmet Faraç, a columnist for daily Ayd?nl?k and a programmer for Halk TV, was detained in the early hours of the morning at his hotel in Adana, where he had come for a television program.

Famous American actor Morgan Freeman has been spotted in the Central Anatolian province of Konya while shooting part of a documentary titled "The Story of God." 

The documentary, which features religious experiences and rituals from around the world, is being filmed for the National Geographic channel. 

The Kültepe Tablets, the earliest written documentation of life in Anatolia, have been included in the UNESCO Memory of the World Register. 

'Four Years in the Mountains of Kurdistan: An Armenian Boy's Memoir of Survival, 1915-1919' by Aram Haigaz (Maiden Lane, 396 pages, $26.95)

A group of people, who were allegedly mourning after the twin suicide bombing in the Turkish capital of Ankara on Oct. 10, attacked a wedding in the southern province of Adana, killing one person and wounding two others, after claiming the hosts of the wedding had denied their demand to end the event.