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Seven municipal police officers have been acquitted after being charged with "misconduct" and "intentionally starting a fire," due to a lack of evidence proving that they raided and burned down protesters' tents during the Gezi Park protests in summer 2013.

Seven municipal police officers have been acquitted after being charged with "misconduct" and "intentionally starting a fire," due to a lack of evidence proving that they raided and burned down protesters' tents during the Gezi Park protests in summer 2013.

With just blankets to shield them against the icy wind and rain, Abu Ali's family huddles in a flimsy tent in Lebanon - among the thousands of Syrian refugees struggling as winter sets in.

Police resorted to batons and rubber bullets early Nov. 7 against a small group of activists camping outside Istanbul’s Validebağ grove to protest the construction of a mosque within the area, which enjoys a protected status.

About 700,000 Iraqis have gathered in the Kurdish north after being driven from their homes by jihadist fighters, the United Nations said Aug. 22 as it stepped up a massive aid operation to the region.

BELGRADE - The power station Nikola Tesla (TENT) in Obrenovac will produce about 30 percent less power than planned once winter starts as the result of the recent floods and a reduction in coal deliveries, station head Cedomir Ponocko has said.

A group of families in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır have started a hunger strike to demand the return of their children who joined the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).

The families were holding a sit-in protest in front of the Diyarbakır Municipality amid demands that the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) mediate for the release of their children.

An expert report has suggested that workers killed in a fire at an Istanbul shopping mall construction site in 2012 were secondarily responsible for their own death, as a new court hearing into the fire was held on June 6.

TENT A power plant resumes operations

BELGRADE -- The Nikola Tesla thermal power plant (TENT A) in Obrenovac, hard-hit by recent record flooding, resumed its operations on Sunday after ten days of downtime.

OBRENOVAC – The Nikola Tesla thermal power plant (TENT A) in Obrenovac, a town near Belgrade hit hardest by the recent record flooding in Serbia, resumed its operations Sunday after 10 days of downtime.