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This week marks the anniversary of the Haydarpa?a Train Station, which began its long and later troubled history on Nov 4, 1909, as one of the major train stations of the worldIstanbul has been the epicenter of various battles in the last decade where its nature and history are being massacred relentlessly, with Gezi Park being the ultimate symbol in a fight against a ruthless neo-liberal regim

A provincial head of the Kurdish problem-focused Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) was detained for "showing resistance" to a polling clerk at a polling station in Turkey's northwestern K?rklareli province, daily Hürriyet has reported. 

HDP K?rklareli provincial head Feyaz ?ahin was detained for rejecting to show his observer's card and engaging in a quarrel with a polling clerk.

"I am so excited to see the beauties of Istanbul," says a Syrian girl waiting impatiently to visit Hagia Sophia and the Topkap? Palace.

This is the first time she has been out to visit the historical sites of Istanbul since she arrived in the city seven months ago after escaping the Syrian conflict.

The historical Troy National Park in the northwestern province of Çanakkale will be renewed within a recently approved development revision plan. 

The site was declared a national park in 1996 and has been one of the nine UNESCO world heritage sites in Turkey since 1998.

The Interior Ministry removed a district co-mayor in the southeastern province of Van from her post on Oct. 28, on charges of "declaring self-governance."

Istanbul's historical Haydarpa?a Train Station hosted Republic Day celebrations on Oct. 27, with a concert of the Istanbul Symphony Orchestra and an exhibition displaying photos dating back to the birth of the Republic.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and his deputies will attend Syria peace talks in Vienna on Oct. 30, the semi- official ISNA news agency reported. 

"Deputy Foreign Ministers Hossein Amir Abdollahian, Abbas Araqchi and Majid Takht Ravanchi will accompany Zarif on this trip," foreign ministry spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham was quoted as saying by ISNA. 

Thirty-seven shipwrecks discovered underwater during the Marmaray subway construction in Istanbul's Yenikap? shed light on ship production technology in ancient erasAn inventory of the types of wood used in the production of 37 sunken ships discovered in Istanbul's Yenikap?

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.

Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu said on Oct. 22 that the government would help young people marry if their parents fail to do so, as part of his Justice and Development Party's (AKP) "employment and entrepreneurship" plans.