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In contrary to what some locals in the southern Turkish province of Adana do, shooting at the sun with a gun will not cool down the Earth, a NASA scientist has told a curious Turkish schoolgirl. 

A Turkish man has found himself stuck in his car in an odd position following an accident in Istanbul.

In February, a campaign dubbed "Mobilization for Literacy" was launched to teach adults how to read and write. Since its launch, 504,985 women and 59,466 male have attended the program in over the past eight months.

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Government spokesman Dimitris Tzanakopoulos on Wednesday accused Turkish authorities of "playing with human lives" after it emerged that two Greek soldiers who have been in a Turkish prison since March without charge could face two years in prison.

A top religious official of a northern Turkish province has stirred outcry on social media by claiming a woman "should not reveal her body to another woman while swimming."

A three-year-old Turkish boy has emerged unscathed after his mother's car ran over him in an incident that ended with what some Turkish social media described as a "miraculous escape."

Linguist Ranko Bugarski said this on Thursday while promoting his new book, "Do you speak common (language)," published by Biblioteka XX Vek - and added that this language has been separated into four for political reasons.

"From the political and administrative, but by no means from the aspect of linguistics, we have four different languages," Bugarski said.

The education level of women farmers has risen significantly in recent years, according to a report commissioned by the General Secretariat of Gender Equality.

More specifically, 35.3 percent completed secondary education, compared with 13.2 percent in 1998, 18 percent in 2003 and 26.6 percent in 2008, and 4 percent have university degrees, compared with just 1 percent in 1998.