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Turkey summoned Germany's ambassador Martin Erdmann to protest a two-minute song satirizing President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an that was broadcast on German public television, a diplomatic source told AFP on March 29.

"We summoned the ambassador last week to communicate our protest about the broadcast that we condemned," the source told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity.

Since becoming available in January, new website domain name extensions for Istanbul have been selling swiftly among domain names for other world cities, a municipality spokesman has said.

The death toll from bombings at Brussels Airport and a rush-hour metro on March 22 has risen to 35, the health minister said on March 28.

"Four patients deceased in hospital. Medical teams did all possible. Total victims: 35. Courage to all the families," Maggie De Block said in a tweet. 

A derby match between Galatasaray and Fenerbahçe, which was scheduled to be played on March 20 but canceled due to security concerns over a possible terror attack, has been rescheduled to April 13.

The Netherlands Consulate General in Istanbul was closed on March 23 due to "terror threats," the Dutch Foreign Ministry has announced.

The announcement said the Consulate General would be closed due to "terror threats" until future notice.  

Russia's first Islamic bank will open this month in Kazan, the capital of Tatarstan, a federal subject of Russia.

The bank will function according to Islamic principles as a subsidiary of Tatagroprombank, one of the bank's founders announced.        

Consuls general from 19 countries in Istanbul, as well as three Istanbul district mayors, marched against terrorism on March 22 on Istanbul's ?stiklal Avenue, the scene of a suicide attack on March 19 that killed five and wounded more than 30.

Istanbul had an extraordinarily quiet weekend, as millions of its residents decided to stay home after an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) suicide bomb attack hit the city's busiest pedestrian thoroughfare on early March 19, killing five and wounding more than 30.

One Turkish citizen was among the wounded in the deadly attack in Brussels on March 22, Do?an News Agency has reported.

A Turkish official working at the Brussels Airport said that he could not get information about his colleague but later learnt that he was hospitalized at Leuven Hospital.

The director-general of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, Dore Gold, has thanked the Turkish government for what it did in the aftermath of the Istanbul attack that killed three Israeli citizens and underlined the need for an alliance in the fight against terror.