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ΕasyJet airline has decided to add a flight between the Greek island of Zakynthos in the Ionian Sea and Stansted Airport in London to its Greek destinations this summer, the airline announced on Thursday.

With the addition of the new flight, Zakynthos will now have a direct link to two London airports, Stansted and Gatwick.

A special operations officer who was wounded in an outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) attack on Feb. 5 has succumbed to his injuries at the Gülhane Military Medical Academy (GATA) where he was being treated. 

The officer, identified as 41-year-old Kemal Y?lmaz, was wounded in a PKK attack in the southeastern province of ??rnak's Cizre province. 

Two Syrian children were killed and two residents wounded when a fire erupted at an apartment in Istanbul's Zeytinburnu district early on Feb. 12. 

The fire started at 4:30 a.m. at Güler Apartment in Zeytinburnu's Ye?ilyol and spread to a flat inhabited by a Syrian family of six.

Days before he died from cancer rock legend David Bowie found out that he would have been a grandfather.
 
Marking one month since Bowie's death, his son, film director Duncan Jones, said on Feb. 10 that he had revealed the news to his father in the form of a Christmas card.
 

Indonesia's government has demanded that instant messaging apps remove stickers featuring same-sex couples, in the latest high-profile attempt to discourage visible homosexuality in the socially conservative country.
     

Brazil is signing an agreement with the University of Texas to develop a vaccine against the Zika virus, the country's health minister said on Feb. 11, adding the goal is for the vaccine to be ready for clinical testing within 12 months.

NATO has agreed "in principle" to a U.S. request to deploy AWACS air surveillance aircraft to help out in the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), its chief Jens Stoltenberg said on Feb. 11.

Talks between Turkey and Israel to repair ties are going well but a deal has still yet to be reached, ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) spokesman Ömer Çelik said on Feb. 11. 

"We have information that the talks are going well," Çelik said, according to Do?an News Agency. 

Spray-painted names and hearts on the walls of the historic Berberkaya tomb in the northwestern province of Bursa's ?znik district will be cleaned by a team of experts. The tomb, which dates back to the Bithynia civilization in 149 B.C., is made of basalt rock and located on a slope close to the district's Lefke Gate. 

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) head Kemal K?l?çdaro?lu has condemned the violent attacks by masked mobs on the offices of daily Yeni Akit and daily Yeni ?afak early on Feb. 11.