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Officials from Istanbul's Beyo?lu Municipality have forced the owners of a hotel to shut down a rooftop screen playing a video by the artist I??l E?rikavuk, citing "visual pollution."

The work titled "Time to Sing a New Song" was on display at YAMA, a public art installation series screened on top of Istanbul's Marmara Pera hotel.

The White House on May 5 praised Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu as a "good partner with the United States" and said it did not expect his departure from office to affect U.S.-Turkish relations as they pertain to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). 

Turkish Forestry Ministry has announced a new regulation enabling further zoning projects for "the public interest" in private forests, with experts claiming that the change will threaten forests adjacent to Istanbul Bosporus.  

The UN's envoy for Syria on May 4 made a plea for a halt in fighting in the second city of Aleppo, warning that failure to do so could lead to a "catastrophic" outcome.

A public prosecutor has launched an investigation into prominent business mogul Ali A?ao?lu's comments on one-night stands, saying that A?ao?lu's statements were insulting and discriminatory to women. 

Italy's top criminal court has ruled that a hungry homeless man who took a package of hot dogs from a supermarket committed no crime.

A tramline that will run on the coast between Istanbul's Eminönü and Eyüp neighborhoods is set to be laid as its environmental impact assessment has begun. 

The line, which will carry 10,500 passengers in an hour, will offer a traffic-free sightseeing tour for those who want to see the age-old buildings in Istanbul's historical peninsula and Haliç area.  

An American student was sexually assaulted after being abducted by two men in the Fulya neighborhood of Istanbul on April 30.

One worker was wounded in an armed attack targeting a dam construction site on May 2 in the Black Sea province of Gümü?hane.

Unknown assailants carried out an armed attack with long-barreled weapons on workers at the hydro-electric power plant (HES) construction site at Ya?mak Dam in the province's Kürtün district at around 11 p.m. 

A small group of May 1 demonstrators in Turkey's Aegean province of ?zmir took off their clothes in protest at the police's insistence on conducting body searches before allowing them inside the square where International Workers' Day celebrations are being held.