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Edirne Mayor Recep Gürkan has requested a commission to be established over the increasing number of Bulgarian signs and posters in the city after a recent decision that no longer requires Bulgarian citizens to obtain a visa to visit Türkiye.

A prominent Turkish artist has defended the much-debated sculptures and statues that mostly stand at the entrances of various provinces depicting things those provinces are known for, saying that they were "examples of Turkish pop art."

"I admire them very much," Gürkan Coşkun, also known as "Komet," tweeted on July 27.

Turkey's Savings Deposit Insurance Fund (TMSF) has opened to sale 14 immovable properties worth some 33 million Turkish Liras belonging to Soma Holding Chairman Alp Gürkan, who has failed to pay installments on his 34-million-lira debt to his workers since October 2015. Gürkan operated the controversial Soma mine during the 2014 disaster which claimed the lives of 301 miners. 

An outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militant who was identified as one of the suspects that killed two police officers before running down a street just prior to the murder of Diyarbak?r Bar Association head Tahir Elçi on Nov. 28, 2015, has been reported to be among those killed in a clash with the security forces in Sur on March 13.

Two-hundred water jets spraying drops of cool water on pedestrians as the temperature nears 40 degrees Celsius in mid-August? The lucky residents in Turkey?s northwestern province of Edirne were able heaved a sigh of relief thanks to the project hatched by provincial Governor Recep Gürkan. 

In Isparta, the "City of Roses" in southwestern Turkey, a company that has been producing rosewater for decades is looking for even more business thanks to innovations in how it transports the valuable liquid.

Ali ?smail Korkmaz, one of the victims of the Gezi Park protests, was commemorated on the second anniversary of the beating that led to his death in the Central Anatolian province of Eski?ehir on June 2. 

The chief executive of the mine where 301 miners died in 2014 in Turkey?s deadliest industrial accident on April 16 insisted he was not a murderer and said he was still struggling to understand the causes of the tragedy.