Ankara

German Ambassador to Ankara Martin Erdmann said he was frightened with the assault on Hürriyet journalist Ahmet Hakan.

In a written statement on Nov. 2, the ambassador said he had confidence in the Turkish judiciary that the incident would be enlightened and perpetrators would be punished accordingly. 

The ambassador extended a get well message for Hakan.

Before the June 7 elections, he explained in his Ankara rally on May 19 a conversation he had with Ayd?n Do?an, the founder and honorary chairman of Do?an Holding. He said general things; he implied some things, but this sentence was not there: ?There were times when we made governments come and go.?

Two years after restoration of the world famous ancient Aspendos Theater with white marble sparked outrage in the country, a similar upset is seen in Ankara. 

According to daily Hürriyet, a 2,000 year-old ancient theater discovered during excavations in one of Ankara?s oldest neighborhoods, Ulus, was restored with white marble by the Ankara Metropolitan Municipality two years ago. 

This year's excavation work at the ancient site of Patara, located in the southern province of Antalya, has recently concluded.

Patara, known as the capital of ancient Lycian Union, has been undergoing excavations for 27 years.

Five suspects are accused of storming the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) headquarters in Ankara on Sept. 8, with four of them facing between six months and three years in prison. The other suspect accused of setting the building ablaze faces up 24 years in jail.

A total of 12 people have been killed after a public bus rammed into a bus stop in the Dikimevi neighborhood of Ankara, according to initial reports.

The public bus rammed into people waiting at the bus stop near the central Dikimevi metro station when the unidentified driver lost control of the wheel. 

A military prosecutor's office has dismissed an investigation - publicly known as the "Cosmic Room" investigation - against eight suspects related to surveillance of a former colonel between late 2008 and late 2009, saying the surveillance activity was lawfully conducted upon a verbal order by a former head of the Turkish General Staff.

Russia has informed Turkey about the airstrike launched in Syria on Sept. 30, a Russian Embassy official has stated.

"Today we informed the Turkish authorities about the military operation," Russian Embassy spokesperson Igor Mityakov told the Hürriyet Daily News, adding that notification was made through the embassy in Ankara.

Turkish-Armenian journalist Hayko Ba?dat says Ankara Mayor Melih Gökçek, who took Ba?dat to court for using "Armenian" and "disgusting" to describe Gökçek, is in fact "Armenian," according to Gökçek's definition. 

Franco-Turkish director Deniz Gamze Ergüven said her film ?Mustang,? which was officially selected by France to compete for best foreign language film at the 2016 Oscars, got its strength the smart women in the center of the story.