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Pakistan?s Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has issued a notice to the country?s former Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani to return a necklace donated by the Turkish president?s wife after the 2010 floods in the country, Pakistan Today reported on its website on June 21. 

A Turkish mother, 36, has shot dead her daughter, 17, after finding out that she was three months pregnant.

Turkish transgender woman Deva Ozenen didn’t know if she’d ever find a way out of prostitution twenty years ago. She faced daily discrimination and violence and sex work was all she could do to support herself. Now, the tide has turned in Turkey and the 37-year-old is making history by vying for a seat in Turkish Parliament on June 7.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has asked for soil to be taken from the grave of an Ottoman soldier in Arakan and placed on his eventual grave in a revision of his will, daily Yeni ?afak reported.

President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an?s wife Emine Erdo?an visited a refugee camp in Suruç, a town in the southeastern province of ?anl?urfa, to mark the official opening of the facility.

The camp hosts Syrian Kurds who have fled their homes in Kobane on the Turkish border after attacks by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), who had besieged the town for around five months.

President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has harshly criticized some women?s organizations who have protested the killing of Özgecan Aslan by dancing, saying it was not a part of Turkish culture.

Alaattin Bayraktar, General Vice President of the Turkish Industrialists' and Businessmen's Confederation of Business Women, has vowed substantial investments in Balkan states in 2015.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has met with Moroccan King Mohammed VI, who has been in Turkey for over a week, for a friendly meeting at an Istanbul palace.

Accompanied by their families, the two leaders held an unofficial meeting in Yıldız Palace in Istanbul on Dec. 27.

Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy Süheyl Batum has been removed from the party due to a speech he made after the resignation of former CHP deputy Emine Ülker Tarhan.

CHP Eskişehir deputy Batum was removed from the CHP by the party’s High Discipline Board on Dec. 11, over his speech in late October.

Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has named Boğaziçi University Professor Emine Nur Günay, who is a renowned innovation and trade specialist, as his chief economy adviser.

Günay, known for her work in innovation-based growth and joint projects with Turkish companies of various sizes, is a member of the teaching roster of Boğaziçi University’s International Trade Department.