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Turkey?s top business group hopes to ?energize? Turkey?s accession process with the European Union, its head has told daily Hürriyet.

The author of a major new history of the Great War and the fall of the Ottoman Empire, Oxford University Professor Eugene Rogan, tells the Hürriyet Daily News that the effects of the conflict are still being felt in the region 100 years later.

The Do?an Media Group?s Publishing Principles Committee has reaffirmed its commitment to non-partisan, impartial reporting at its meeting in Istanbul.

?We?re equidistant from all parties,? said Ayd?n Do?an, the founder and honorary chairman of Do?an Holding, at the meeting he chaired at the Hilton Hotel on March 9, attended by committee members.

A few days after the brutal murder of Özgecan Aslan, which put women?s murders under focus again and a few days before International Women?s Day, an incident that took place during the Gezi events came back to the agenda one more time.

Turkey?s top scientific body has rejected a local court?s request for evidence analysis, citing a lack of qualified specialists amid massive layoffs with allegedly political motives.

Former Turkish minister Erdo?an Bayraktar, whose family company earned millions of dollars through a controversial transaction, has defended that the "crime" was committed by the developers that the company was partnered in a real estate project.

A total of 42 companies from Turkey, including daily Hürriyet, have signed the Women?s Empowerment Principles (WEPs), founded in collaboration with U.N. Women and U.N. Global Compact, on March 6, ahead of International Women?s Day on March 8.

Tajik opposition leader Umarali Kuvatov was killed in a gun attack in Istanbul late on March 5, days after he warned Turkish authorities of a possible assassination.

Kuvatov, the leader of Group 24, an opposition movement in Tajikistan, was reportedly walking on the street in the Fatih district after having dinner at his friend's house when an unknown assailant shot him in the head.

President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has repeated his disappointment with former head of the National Intelligence Organization (M?T) Hakan Fidan?s resignation from the post to run for parliament during the June 7 elections.

The government?s proposal for a presidential system is more or less one man rule without the checks and balances of the US system, prominent legal scholar Ergun Özbudun tells the Hürriyet Daily News, adding that the AKP is distorting the facts to suggest that presidential systems are the most successful model around the world The government?s proposal for a presidential system is for ?su