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Children and teenagers using watersports vehicles in the Turkish resort Bodrum are endangering themselves and vacationers, the head of a watersports association in the district has said.

Bodrum Lifeguard and Water Sports Association Head Arif Yılmaz has urged vacationers and parents to be extra careful about jet-skies, speedboats and other watersports vehicles used by children.

A court in the Central Anatolian province of Eskişehir has ordered the arrest of three suspects for the armed assault attempt targeting Eskişehir Mayor Yılmaz Büyükerşen on July 29.

Earlier, five suspects had been referred to court over the attempted attack.

Yılmaz Büyükerşen, the mayor of the Central Anatolian province of Eskişehir, on July 29 escaped an attempted armed assault, a statement from his office read. The Eskişehir municipality said in a written statement that a group of shopkeepers drew gun on the mayor and attacked him. It said the attempt failed as locals immediately took cover of Büyükerşen.

The final version of Turkey’s national school curriculum has left evolution out and added the concept of “jihad” as part of Islamic law in books, Education Minister İsmet Yılmaz said on July 18.

The final version of Turkey's national school curriculum has left evolution out and added the concept of "jihad" as part of Islamic law in books, Education Minister İsmet Yılmaz said on July 18.

The Turkish government will use the necessary tools at its disposal if banks to not curb rises in deposit rates, ruling Justice and Development Party Deputy Chairman Cevdet Yılmaz told Reuters on July 6.

Yılmaz, the AKP's deputy chairman responsible for economic affairs, said the rise in deposit rates was damaging to everyone and added they should be brought to a reasonable level.

Ahmet Mekin, the legendary actor of one of the unforgettable movies of Turkish cinema history, "Selvi Boylum Al Yazmalım" (The Girl with the Red Scarf), is still acting in movies and TV series at the age of 85.
 

The Türker İnanoğlu Foundation (TÜRVAK) Cinema-Theater Museum, established in 2000 with the 60-year accumulation of veteran director Türker İnanoğlu, sheds light on over 100 years of Turkish cinema and theater. 

The activity coordinator of the museum in Istanbul's Beyoğlu district, İlke Yılmaz, said the museum in the Erler Film building was Turkey's one and only cinema museum. 

Some 233 bicycles have been distributed to kindergarten students and the managers of public institutions by the Public Health Directorate in the southern province of Burdur in order to promote "healthier living." 

'Becoming Turkish: Nationalist Reforms and Cultural Negotiations in Early Republican Turkey, 1923-1945' by Hale Yılmaz (Syracuse University Press, 328 pages, $39)