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The Italian ambassador to Ankara was summoned to the foreign ministry over Draghi’s comments

Targeted by police raids in Turkey on Friday, Sedat Peker's organised crime conviction has not stopped him from meeting a host of politicians in the Balkans since he fell out of favour in Ankara.

On a plate hanging on the entrance of a museum, located at the foot of the Ankara Castle in the Turkish capital Ankara, there is the seal of Hittite King IV Tuthalia (1250-1220 B.C). Along with it, "Anatolian Civilizations Museum 1921" is written.

But behind that plate is hidden an extraordinary history of civilization.

The Turkish Foreign Ministry on April 6 summoned the Chinese ambassador to Ankara over the Chinese Embassy's social media posts that caused discomfort.

The discomfort caused by the embassy's Twitter posts was conveyed to Chinese Ambassador Liu Shaobin, said an official on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on speaking to the media.

Posting in Turkish, Hungary's ambassador in Ankara has received significant attention on social media, becoming the most-followed foreign dignitary in the country.

Agriculture and Forestry Minister Bekir Pakdemirli has said that Turkey's biggest cities, the capital Ankara, Istanbul, and the Aegean province of Izmir, will face no water shortage problems for a few months as they have enough water stored to meet the needs of the cities.

Following a week of spring rainfall and occasional strong winds, Turkey's metropolises have witnessed an unexpected snowfall, as this time around, March, contradicting the old weather lore, came like a lamb and will go out like a lion.

Turkey's capital Ankara woke up with cold and snowy weather on March 17. (AA Photo)

Following Turkey's suspension from the F-35 fighter jet program by the United States, Ankara is aiming to seek its legal rights in cooperation with the American firms that incurred losses or suffered an additional burden in the project's production phase, the head of Turkey's top defense procurement and development body said on March 11.

A steep rise in the number of COVID-19 cases in most of Turkey's 81 provinces and scenes of crowded streets and restaurants over the weekend have prompted experts to issue warnings as the country moved to a controlled normalization phase.