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Turkish pop icon Sezen Aksu will take the stage at Istanbul's Cemil Topuzlu Open Air Theater on July 14 and 15 with her project "Sezen'li Y?llar."

Aksu's performance will be an interactive gig, according to the organizer, Most Production, which said that the audience would have the chance to use social media and join Aksu's performance on stage.

Turkey proudly announced plans in June to design, develop and produce an indigenous Turkish regional jet, a first time in the country?s history, but aviation experts and defense industry are now questioning the first Turkish jet?s ?Turkishness.?

Reports that the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) recalled commanders deployed along part of its border with Syria to the capital Ankara for a meeting on a possible military incursion into Syria ?do not reflect reality,? Turkish military sources stated on July 6.

Locals and rights groups in Istanbul's Kad?köy district plan to protest on July 4 the installation of turnstiles used to charge an entry fee for a public beach, saying this is a new practice of the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (?BB).

A 19-year-old Turkish talent show contestant is out of a coma and communicating after she was shot in the head in an attack that shocked the country, doctors said on June 23.

Mutlu Kaya was shot while she was at home in Kurdish-majority southeastern Diyarbak?r province in May and had until now been in intensive care in the Diyarbak?r hospital where she is being treated.    

A 6-year-old Ukrainian girl has been rescued from starvation after remaining for three days next to her parents following their death at a Turkish resort.

Renowned Turkish actor Sümer Tilmaç, who died of a heart attack at the age of 67 on June 12 during an Istanbul wedding ceremony, was laid to rest yesterday, June 14. According to the hospital?s statement, Tilmaç, who had been undergoing treatment, had a serious heart failure. 

After a ceremony at the ?akirin Mosque, Tilmaç was buried in the Karacaahmet Graveyard. 

Turkish ??bank Chairman Ersin Özince criticized pessimistic comments about the economy after the election and said Turkey is in a better condition than it was before the election in making constructive assessments, adding the new government must vow to make the delayed reforms to its people as soon as possible. 

This simulator lets you make projections and consider scenarios for today's general elections in Turkey. Turkish visual designer Deniz Cem Önduygu, software engineer Eser Aygün and data scientist Amaç Herda?delen, who are the founding partners of the website Çilek A?ac? (Strawberry Tree), had explained the election simulator they created to Hürriyet Daily News on May 2.

A Turkish prosecutor has demanded aggravated life sentence along with a life sentence and 42 years jail term for daily Cumhuriyet's editor-in-chief Can Dündar as President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has filed a criminal complaint over a critical news report, after he said they would pay a ?heavy price.?