Human behavior

A court has ordered the arrest of a man for verbally and physically assaulting three women on the street in the Mediterranean province of Antalya, putting out a cigarette on one of them, Doğan News Agency reported on May 16.

A court has ordered the release of a man detained for verbally and physically assaulting three women on the street in the Mediterranean province of Antalya, putting out a cigarette on one of them, Doğan News Agency reported on May 16.  

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Serbian authorities should acknowledge Srebrenica massacre as genocide, eradicate racism among football fans, and address violence against Roma and LGBT.

This is stated in a new report by the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI), a human rights body of the Council of Europe (CoE).

The head of Turkey's Religious Affairs Directorate (Diyanet) has warned the country's youth regarding "short and unnecessary expressions" on social media and the internet, urging them to avoid any kind of image and text that "would take over their minds" on mobile devices.

A neighborhood in the Indonesian capital has informally declared itself a smoke-free zone as students plan further protests against what they see as an increased effort by cigarette companies to target the young.

The Turkish Health Ministry will extend free medicine to some 300,000 citizens who wish to quit smoking, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

Turkish Health Ministry's decision was issued in the Official Gazette on May 6. 

May is National Masturbation Month! Don’t worry if you forgot to get someone a card…

But before you celebrate in the privacy of your own home, have you ever considered perhaps indulging in planet Earth’s favourite pass time… At work?

Family and Social Policies Minister Fatma Betül Sayan Kaya refuted on May 4 reports that decisions on granting custody of children to foster parents was being affected by the gender of the children.

Controversy had been stirred over reports that local officials in the Aegean province of İzmir were not giving away girls to parents who already have sons. 

If you’ve done any research at all into the lives of mountain men, then you know full well that they lived a very dangerous, difficult, and at times violent life. Their lives were consistently put at risk from starvation, dehydration, exhaustion, ambushes, and general exposure to the outside elements.

The disciplinary committee with the Bulgarian  Olympic Committee exculpated national record runner in the 3,000m steeplechase Silvia Dunekova on the case with the positive doping test before the start of Rio Olympics 2016, BNR reported.

The global agencies commented before the start of the games that Dunekova was the first sportsperson, nabbed with doping in Rio.