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A suspect in the 2017 attack on a nightclub in Istanbul that left 39 people dead has been detained in Kyrgyzstan, security services in the Central Asian country said on Dec. 10.

Turkish forces "neutralized" four YPG/PKK terrorists in Syria's north, the Defense Ministry said.

The terrorists were targeted by Turkish commandos when they tried to infiltrate the Operation Peace Spring area, the ministry said on Twitter.

They were neutralized after opening fire on the Turkish troops, the statement noted.

Turkey has been delivering Turkish Bayraktar drones to Ukraine as scheduled according to the requirements of the deal and new delivery has nothing to do with the objection of Russia, the country's top defense official said on Dec. 4.

According to Turkish media, the explosive device was placed under a car that was accompanying President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the city of Sirte.
The device was noticed at the last moment by a friend of the policeman whose car it is, Turkish media write.

International credit rating agency Fitch has raised its Turkey growth forecast for 2021 from 9.2 percent to 10.5 percent, while it changed its outlook assessment from stable to negative.

The Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) should be closed and its top officials should be banned from politics, the Supreme Court of Appeals Chief Prosecutor Bekir Şahin has said, reiterating his call once again.

A prominent human rights activist explains why it is so urgent that Moldova implements the Istanbul Convention in order to tackle a rise in domestic violence.

More than 50 million people, or 60 percent of the population, have been fully vaccinated, while this rate was around nearly 81 percent for the citizens aged 18 and above, according to the country's health minister.

Turkish police last year launched a total of 176 operations against 101 organized crime rings, detaining nearly 2,400 suspects.

Those operations carried out by the police force's smuggling and organized crime unit in 46 province, targeted mafia-like groups.

The Turkish foreign minister and his Russian counterpart held a phone conversation on Nov. 19, according to diplomatic sources.

Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu and Sergey Lavrov discussed bilateral ties, as well as regional developments, the sources added.

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