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One of the 32 Turkish truck drivers taken hostage by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in northern Iraq on June 10 has told daily Hürriyet that they expect to be released soon.

Opposition parties remain persistent that the government is responsible for the recent attack on a Turkish flag in a military base.

Shortly before the March 30 local elections, a group of young, angry men in Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s native Rize gathered a demonstration to show their eternal support for the prime minister. They wore shrouds to illustrate both that their support for Mr. Erdoğan would be “till death” and that they attributed divine qualities to him.

Turkey’s opposition leaders have lined up to slam the state science watchdog TÜBİTAK, which recently concluded that leaked voice recordings, allegedly belonging to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and apparently proving his involvement in a huge graft scandal, “were montaged.”

Istancool, the annual high-profile International Arts & Culture Festival will be held for the fourth time this year between June 13 and 15 in Istanbul.

Three lion cubs, which were born three months ago at the Anadolu Harikalar Diyarı Zoo in the Central Anatolian province of Kayseri, have been named by public votes.

A prosecutor has demanded jail terms of between two and five years for 118 people involved in an attack on the People’s Democratic Party (HDP) headquarters in the Mediterranean resort town of Fethiye in March.

Turkey’s main opposition leader has claimed that both the president and the prime minister broke their silence over removal of the national flag from an Air Force base in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır only after he “raised hell” over the incident.

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Those responsible for the removal of a Turkish flag from a mast inside an Air Force base in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır will pay for it, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said, accusing both the perpetrators and local military officials. Five people involved in the incident were detained on June 10 as part of the investigation launched by the local police forces.