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A Belgian prosecutor on Dec. 5 sought a 30-year jail term in absentia for an outlawed Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) member being tried for crimes committed in Turkey and for being an accomplice in the 1996 assassination of the former head of Sabancı Holding, one of Turkey's top family-owned industrial conglomerates. 

The Istanbul Recitals will open the 2016-2017 season on Oct. 15 at the Seed venue at the Sakıp Sabancı Museum. The recitals, which will continue for nine months with an extraordinary virtuoso presented every month, will open with the world famous French pianist Jean Efflam Bavouzet. 

The Sakıp Sabancı International Research Awards has started collecting essays for its 2017 competition. 

The team of this year's awards, distributed in honor of the late Sakıp Sabancı, honorary chairman of the Board of Trustees of Sabancı University, is "Europeans with Legacies from Turkey in Everyday Life," officials said in a statement on Sept. 27. 

Sabancı Holding Chair Güler Sabancı has been named the seventh most powerful woman in the world in the latest list by Fortune magazine. Serpil Timuray, who  leads Vodafone's vast Africa, Middle East, Asia and Pacific (AMAP) business, ranked 23rd in the 2016 list. 

An in-depth analysis was penned for Sabancı in the magazine. 

Sabanc? Holding Chair Güler Sabanc? has ranked first on Fortune Turkey's annual "50 Most Powerful Businesswomen" list, followed by OMV Turkey CEO Gülsüm Azeri and the president of Turkey's top business organization, Cansen Ba?aran-Symes. Four top Do?an Group chairs were ranked on this year's list, which was released on April 13. 

Turkish bus manufacturer Temsa, which has reached a share of around 10 percent in the U.S. market after its entrance in 2010, has made plans to build a production facility in Georgia with the aim of reaching over 1,000 units in the initial stage. 

Turkish airline Pegasus carried a total of 22.34 million passengers in 2015, a 13.2 percent increase from the previous year, the airline announced in a written statement on Jan. 30. 

The number of domestic flight passengers rose by 15.4 percent to 13.81 million and of foreign flight passengers by 9.8 percent to 8.52 million in 2015 compared to the previous year. 

Low-cost Turkish airline Pegasus carried a total of 22.34 million passengers in 2015, a 13.2 percent increase from the previous year, the airline announced in a written statement on Jan. 30. 

The number of domestic flight passengers rose by 15.4 percent to 13.81 million and of foreign flight passengers by 9.8 percent to 8.52 million in 2015 compared to the previous year. 

The 12th edition of the Istanbul Japanese Film Festival will take place from Feb. 4 to Feb. 13, in association with the Japanese General Consulate of Istanbul, the Japan Foundation and Akbanksanat.

One of Turkey's oldest festivals, the 25th Akbank Jazz Festival has announced this year's program Celebrating a quarter century of improvisation and music, the Akbank Jazz Festival will be organized between Oct. 21 and Nov. 1 this year with acts from all over the world.