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The name Zeynep has remained as the most popular name given to baby girls by parents, data compilation made with information obtained from the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK) and the Population Directorate has shown. 

Seven women entrepreneurs have been recognized for their work with top awards as part of the Women Entrepreneurs of Turkey Competition, beating out more than 33,000 applications.

Dress Best Uniforms founder Rana Tülin Yazıcı and Mene Research founder Şule Mene won the top awards at an award ceremony on Oct. 12.

A baby was born in central Turkey with two lower teeth overnight on May 3, leaving the newborn's parents both stunned and concerned.   

The baby boy, named Miraç, came into the world in the Central Anatolian province of Nev?ehir, bordering the scenic Cappadocia region, weighing 2.6 kilograms and measuring 48 centimeters, pediatrician Dr. Zeynep ?bi?o?lu told reporters.   

Istanbul's interdisciplinary art festival, Pera Fest, which has chosen "Art against Discrimination" as the theme of its 14th edition, opened on March 21 with a poetry & music event at Tiyatro Pera. Despite the general atmosphere of fear and anxiety due to the recent terror attack's proximity to the event, many of the invited artists attended the festival's opening event.     

Pera Fest, to be organized under the theme of "art against discrimination," will open on March 21 at Istanbul's Tiyatro Pera. Poems and songs addressing discrimination will be performed during the night. 

The 14th edition of the event will host three panel discussions, three short and three feature film screenings and a theater play until March 27. 

It was as if the entire world collapsed on me. Was it possible at all to look at that photograph of a little boy?s body washed up on a Bodrum beach without pain in the heart? Moments later, a young soldier was gently carrying in his arms the lifeless body of a little boy. He was three-year-old Aylan Kurdi.

A young Turkish woman accepted a marriage proposal tweeted by her boyfriend, whom she met on Twitter two years ago, after a thousand people "favorited" the tweet.

Things started to unfold when Onur Cengiz, a social media strategist for an Istanbul-based advertising agency, wrote about his willingness to propose once his tweet received 250 favorites. 

A Syrian teenager living in Turkey, who has made headlines as a piano “genius,” was set to fly to Russia on Dec. 10 for an international competition after being granted Turkish citizenship after an intense diplomatic procedure.

Trade levels between Turkey and the United States are increasing at a growing pace despite a downturn in political relations, according to the chair of the Turkish American Business Association, Zeynep Dereli.

This is the last week to catch Ara Güler’s never-before-seen works, on display at the Smithsonian in Washington DC since the end of last year Ara Güler is known as one of Turkey’s most prominent photojournalist and since Dec. 21 last year his never-before-seen works have been on display at the Smithsonian, in Washington D.C.