Egemen Bağış

The Turkish Embassy's bid to install a 3-meter statue of modern Türkiye founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in the Czech capital Prague has been turned down by local authorities, the BBC has reported.

Ozan Ceyhun, a former German-Turkish European Parliament MP, has been appointed as Turkey's ambassador to Austria.

His assignment decision, by the signature of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, was published in the Official Gazette on Feb. 21.

Egemen Bağış, Turkey's former minister for EU affairs and later a chief negotiator for EU accession, will be appointed as the country's ambassador to Prague, a Turkish official has told Hürriyet Daily News. Bağış was a close aide to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan when he was prime minister. 

The relations between Ankara and Athens would improve via forthright communication despite controversial court rulings in both countries, Turkey's former European Union Affairs Minister Egemen Bağış has said.

It has been determined that a social media account used to target government figures and leak information in 2013 was created in the police’s intelligence headquarters in Ankara’s Çankaya district.

It has been determined that a social media account used to attack government figures and leak information in 2013 was created in the police's intelligence headquarters in the capital Ankara's Çankaya district.  

The arrested Turkish-Iranian businessman Reza Zarrab, who is being tried in the United States on money laundering and sanction-breaching charges, has told the court he has been using Prozac anti-depressant drugs. 

He did not cite the reason for the usage and did not state how long he had been using them for. 

Former Youth and Sports Minister Suat Kılıç has denied daily Yeni Şafak's claims that accused him of being the Gülen-linked individual who threatened an education ministry official not to accept the promotion that brought to him to his current post.  
 

The Turkish authorities have sent files to Germany regarding Zekeriya Öz, a controversial Gülenist prosecutor who is currently believed to be in the country. 

After determining the exact address where Öz is staying in Berlin, Turkey has formally requested his extradition to Turkey. 

A U.S. judge on Oct. 17 rejected Iranian-Turkish businessman Reza Zarrab's bid to dismiss an indictment accusing him of conspiring to conduct hundreds of millions of dollars in transactions for the Iranian government or other entities in order to evade U.S. sanctions.