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Turkey's Press Advertising Agency, which oversees the placing of public authorities' adverts in the media, has barred independent newspaper Evrensel from receiving state ads - a move that its managing editor says is an attempt to stifle free speech.

Turkish conjoined twin brothers Yiğit and Derman will set off on their journey back to Turkey after more than six months of medical operations and healing in the British capital London to separate them.

The two-year-old twins, who were born with their heads joined to each other, will be taken back to Turkey early on June 9 in an ambulance plane sent by the Turkish Health Ministry.

The Evrensel family celebrated on June 21 the first birthday of their conjoined twins, Derman and Yiğit, in the Mediterranean province of Antalya, Turkey.     

Journalist Metin Göktepe was beaten to death in 1996 under police detention in Istanbul while covering the funeral of two inmates.

Kemal Özer, a journalist and nature photographer for daily Evrensel, was detained by police as part of an anti-terrorism probe in the eastern Turkish province of Tunceli late on Sept. 4, Doğan News Agency has reported.  

Özer's vehicle was stopped at a police checkpoint at the entrance of Tunceli city center while he was returning from the province's Ovacık district. 

The Turkish publisher Turhan Günay of Cumhuriyet Books and the Turkish publishing house Evrensel have been named co-winners of the Geneva-based International Publishers Association's (IPA) 2017 Prix Voltaire prize on Aug. 3.

An Istanbul court has ordered the release of writer Murat Özyaşar, who was detained on Oct. 1 at his house. 

Özyaşar, a renowned writer of short stories who received two prestigious awards in 2008 and 2009, was freed on Oct. 7, his wife, Sibel Oral, announced.

"Murat called me, he is released," wrote Oral from her Twitter account.

A janitor who discovered 24,500 euros ($26,000) in the bathroom of Istanbul's Ataturk Airport has been praised for his "good character and inner conscience."

Emrah Evrensel, who earns minimum wage -currently 1,000 Turkish Liras a month (approx. $350)- cleaning the airport's VIP area, found a bag full of cash on Nov. 6, which he then turned over to the authorities.

A deputy from the Peoples? Democratic Party (HDP) has claimed the Turkish military conducted an operation at the Uludere district of Turkey?s southeastern province of ??rnak early on June 30, killing many mules, while the ??rnak governorate said in a written statement 13 soldiers had been wounded in incidents in Uludere on June 29. 

Photojournalist Metin Göktepe, who was beaten to death while in police custody, was commemorated on the 19th anniversary of his death on Jan. 8, with family and friends holding banners in support of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, a day after the attack on its Paris headquarters killed 12 people.