Cengiz

Democratic Congressman Gerry Connolly said on Feb. 4 that murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi's fiancee, Hatice Cengiz, will be his guest for State of the Union address.

Jamal Khashoggi's Turkish fiancée Hatice Cengiz has said the slain Saudi journalist was in "great loneliness" due to Riyadh's jailing of his friends in her first interview broadcast live. 

Galatasaray chairman Mustafa Cengiz (file photo)

The authorities have refused to grant permission for the annual commemoration of those killed in Turkey's deadliest ever mine disaster in the Soma district of the western province of Manisa, which occurred in May 2014. 

A Turkish national was arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of spying, Greek authorities announced. Cengiz Uyugur, 51, who is chief engineer of a cargo ship named M/V Makbule Ana under a Turkish flag, was arrested while taking photographs of the dockyard in Salamis. According to sources, the man was detected by Greek navy officers, who in turn informed the coastguard of Elefsina.

Turkish construction firm Cengiz is in talks about buying up to 49 percent of the $20 billion Akkuyu nuclear power plant being built by Russia's Rosatom, a source familiar with the matter said on April 27.

The trial of prominent Turkish columnist Cengiz Çandar, accused of "insulting" President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an in seven opinion pieces, was opened and immediately adjourned in Istanbul on April 6. 

A 13-year-old Syrian boy, who was beheaded after refusing to give a man his weekly wage of 50 Turkish liras, or roughly $17, in the southeastern province of Gaziantep, was laid to rest on March 27.