Ankara

'Everywhere there was the smell of 'mangal' (barbecue), the smell of burning flesh, burning people. There were brains, blood and hearts physically on the ground'Last week we could not write about the Oct. 10 terror attack in Ankara because of a total media blackout. This week the ban has been lifted. Next week it may be back on.  

To celebrate Turkey's Republic Day on Oct. 29 the Istanbul Optimum Outlet shopping mall will host an exhibition titled "Atatürk and The Gains of the Republic" between Oct. 24 and Nov. 1, focused on the founder the Republic of Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.

An Ankara prosecutor has launched an investigation into Interior Minister Selami Altonok and several public servants for "neglect of duty" over the Oct. 10 suicide bombing in the Turkish capital that took the lives of 102 people. 

The Justice and Development Party (AKP) faces a tough challenge to be able to form a single-party government in the upcoming Nov. 1 snap election, former Energy Minister Taner Y?ld?z has acknowledged.

Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu signed on Oct. 22 a decree declaring Oct. 30 as an administrative holiday in the run-up to the Nov. 1 snap elections. 

The top election authority set Nov. 1 as the date for Turkey's early elections, with its head stating that it took "seasonal conditions" into consideration while making its decision.

The original target of the two suicide bombers who attacked a peace rally in Ankara on Oct. 10 was the headquarters of the Kurdish problem-focused Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), the state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

The original target of the two suicide bombers who attacked a peace rally in Ankara on Oct. 10 was the headquarters of the Kurdish problem-focused Peoples? Democratic Party (HDP), the state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

Six Turkish universities have placed in the top 20 of a university ranking list taking into consideration 20 nations from emerging Europe and Central Asia (EECA). 

A total of 12 universities made the top 100 in the list compiled by the QS Emerging Europe and Central Asia (EECA) University Rankings for the education year of 2015/2016. 

The Ankara Chief Prosecutor's Office in charge of investigating the Oct. 10 double suicide bombing, which has so far killed 102 people, has focused on foreign intelligence services' possible role in the attack. 

On Nov. 1, Turks (and Kurds and others who happen to be Turkish citizens) will go to the ballots again. Naturally, everybody is curious about what will happen, and what will really have changed since June 7. At that time, no party was able to win a parliamentary majority, and in the following weeks, the country was unable to form a coalition government. Will things change now?