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The National Intelligence Organization (MİT) has neutralized a local leader of the PKK in an operation in Iraq's Duhok governorate.

Eyvaz Beyaz, code-named Zerdeşt Karadeniz, was wanted by Interpol with a red notice and was in the gray category of the Defense Ministry's wanted list.

Ankara Social Sciences University academic Filiz Barın Akman and academic-writer Beyazıt Akman have discovered an epic poem in Latin with approximately 5,000 lines written by an Italian poet in honor of the Ottoman Sultan Mehmet II, known as Mehmed the Conqueror, during the Renaissance era.

Istanbul University students and academics continued their protest on May 8 by conducting open-air lectures in Beyazıt Square against a bill submitted to the Turkish Parliament to split Istanbul University.

'View of Constantinople in Moonlight' by famous Russian painter Ivan Aivazovsky will be auctioned with an opening price of 450,000 Turkish Liras. The auction will be organized by Beyaz Müzayede on May 6 at the Swissotel and will offer 234 artifacts collected from an important collection.

The Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK) ruled on Nov. 24 to impose a penalty against private broadcaster Beyaz TV after Turkish pundit Rasim Ozan Kütahyalı made sexually explicit comments targeting Bosnians during a live sports show.

The 41st Contemporary and Modern Arts Auction, organized by Beyaz Müzayede on Nov. 20, broke a
new record.

Negotiations between Turkey and Russia for the purchase of S-400 missile defense systems are near completion, Parliamentary Defense Committee head Yusuf Beyazıt recently told Daily Sabah, adding that Turkey’s efforts in developing a fully local defense industry for the past 15 years have also been gradually paying off.

Yesterday a suicide bomber hit Istanbul's Sultanahmet Square, killing at least ten people, mostly international tourists. Soon, the president declared that the perpetrator is "a suicide bomber of Syrian origin." This seemed to confirm the initial suspicion, of mine and many other observers, that this was probably an attack by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

During the "Beyaz Show" on Kanal D, a woman claiming to be a teacher called in and said: "Are you aware of what is going on in the east, in the southeast of Turkey?" (Applause from the audience) "Here, unborn children, mothers and people are being killed. There are pathetic people who rejoice at children dying.

Turkish prosecutors on Jan. 11 opened a criminal investigation into the host and the producer of a popular television talk show on charges of "terrorist propaganda" after a caller talked about the civilian casualties during the security operations against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants in the southeastern part of the country.