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Controversial TV personality Adnan Oktar, who is known abroad as Harun Yahya, responded awkwardly on Feb. 1 to remarks from the head of Turkey’s Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet).

The head of Turkey’s Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) on Jan. 31 slammed controversial TV personality and creationist Adnan Oktar, whose colorful TV shows blend religious talk with elaborately made up and surgically enhanced guests.

An Istanbul court has issued a temporary restraining order against television personality Adnan Oktar, aka Harun Yahya, and Gülperi Koçak, the mother of two young women, after a father claimed his two daughters were “forced” to be on Oktar’s program.

Emmanuel Macron's initiative for a European revival expresses the French president's need to make his mark early as a reformer not only in his country but in the rest of the European Union as well. It is also part of a long line of French proposals to establish peace on the continent through the cooperation of its states.

As part of the 43rd Istanbul International Music Festival, music lovers will have an opportunity to look into Mozart?s soul through the piano sonatas of internationally acclaimed Turkish pianist Faz?l Say during four concerts.