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Following a series of condemnations by notable women's organizations across the country, Istanbul Technical University (İTÜ) has launched an administrative investigation against Celal Şengör, a well-known geology expert who recently admitted to sexually harassing one of his female students.

Turkey's leading women's associations strongly condemned scientist Celal Şengör who confessed to abusing one of his female students at Istanbul Technical University (İTÜ).

"She made me so furious that I lifted Saniye's [the student] skirt and gave a smack on her butt," the 66-year-old geologist said in a Zoom meeting uploaded on the internet on Aug. 20.

The Turkish keyboard team has won eight medals, including three world championships, in an Internet keyboarding competition.

Nearly 1,500 competitors took part in the International Federation for Information and Communication Processing (Intersteno) International Keyboarding Championship via the Internet over April 14 to June 1.

The period of the rise of the Ottoman Empire will be the center of the new Netflix series "Rise of Empires: Ottoman."

The series will focus on the period of the conquest of Istanbul and the rule of Ottoman Emperor Mehmet II, who conquered the city from the Byzantines in 1453.

Hasan Celal Güzel, a former Turkish state minister, died at age 73 in a hospital where he was receiving treatment early on March 19, hospital sources said.

The International Publishers Association on Dec. 22 condemned what it called "blatant political censorship" in Turkey, saying three journalists' books had been pulled from shelves on court orders.

A theology professor has said the deaths of miners who died in Turkey's worst ever industrial accident last year, while trying to make an honest living, died in a "better" way than those who die while committing crimes.

Although its size might not have befit its name, the ancient city of Metropolis had all the architectural trappings of a key city.