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Daily Hürriyet editor-in-chief Sedat Ergin testified on Feb. 27 as a plaintiff in Ankara in a case involving the illegal wiretapping of politicians, police officers, judicial officers, civil servants, and journalists, including himself.

A district municipality near the southeastern city of Ad?yaman is organizing a special event to celebrate the birthday of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an.

Yusuf Özdemir, the mayor of the Gölba?? municipality, said a special program would be organized on Feb. 26 for the occasion of Erdo?an?s birthday, which will be celebrated with prayers and a ceremony of whirling dervishes.

Turkey has issued a commemoration message the first time ever for the Struma tragedy, in which 764 Jews died in the Black Sea while trying to escaping the Holocaust.

World-renown Australian actor Hugh Jackman has said his grandfather was an Ottoman and he might ?call myself a Turk.?

In an interview with daily Hürriyet, Jackman said his grandfather did not immigrate to Australia from Greece, but he did so from the Ottoman lands.

Arabic television stations, which were accused by Cairo of prompting violence in Egypt via broadcasts through Turkey, do not have a license from Turkish authorities to broadcast through the country, a foreign ministry official has said.

The Turkish authorities are planning to name a major new bridge across the Euphrates River in the southeast of the country after President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an, daily Hürriyet?s columnist Vahap Munyar reported on Feb. 6.

The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has postponed the passage of a new transparency package until after the coming election, following an intervention from President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an, daily Hürriyet has reported, in another indication of a rift between the prime minister and the president.
 

Could it be said milder by anyone? Skillfully, Hürriyet Daily News Editor-in-Chief Murat Yetkin put it in his weekend editorial: Ahmet Davuto?lu, the last prime minister of the first Turkish Republic?

Organized crime and narcotics smuggling in Turkey are analogous to the role of oil in countries like Saudi Arabia and Azerbaijan, Professor Ryan Gingeras tells the Hürriyet Daily News, discussing his new book ?Heroin, Organized Crime, and the Making of Modern Turkey?

The brother of Serap Eser, the 18-year old victim of a fire bomb attack on an Istanbul city bus six years ago, has demanded information from a former interior minister, who recently said intelligence officials were involved in the attack.