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Turkey urged the U.S. to respect Ankara's judicial process, referencing a statement by Washington asking for the release of Metin Topuz, who stands trial on suspected links to the FETÖ.

After being greeted by the country's leaders at the presidential palace on Tuesday, the Pope visited the memorial house of the Skopje-born Catholic nun Mother Teresa in the centre of the capital, where he was greeted by the country's religious leaders and held a short prayer.

A photography exhibition by Turkey's internationally acclaimed director Nuri Bilge Ceylan is presented to art lovers in the new season at the Baksı Museum, located 45 kilometers from the northeastern province of Bayburt's center.

The mission of Yunus Emre Institute is not just limited to project Turkey's culture or encourage cultural exchange, according to its chairman. The strategy of the institute, which is celebrating its 10th year, has a humanitarian dimension to it. "We also want to answer the needs of our interlocutors," Professor Şeref Ateş has said.

Students with high IQs and special talents prefer to use words of foreign origin instead of their Turkish correspondences, according to a research conducted by a teacher of Turkish language and literature.

A former village head ("muhtar") has dismantled a children's park, which had been built during his term, after losing the elections on March 31.

Demiören Holding has been growing in parallel with Turkey's growth, the holding's chairman Yıldırım Demirören has said.

The defense ministers of Greece and Turkey met Wednesday on the sidelines of NATO's ministerial summit in Brussels.

The meeting between Evangelos Apostolakis and his Turkish counterpart Hulusi Akar - both former chiefs of their countries' respective armed forces - lasted about 30 minutes.

There was no immediate comment on the meeting.

Developers sold around 100 million Turkish Liras (roughly $20 million) worth of real estates at "Evim Türkiye" (My Home Turkey Real Estate and Investment) fair that was organized between Feb. 8 and Feb. 10 in the German city of Düsseldorf.

Sedat Önal