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Turkish main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) head Kemal K?l?çdaro?lu has called Finance Minister Mehmet ?im?ek's bluff shortly after the latter said he would vote for the CHP if it could prove its ability to find the financial sources for promises K?l?çdaro?lu recently made as part of his party's election campaign. 

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has agreed on being interrogated by Swedish prosecutors in London, as stated by his lawyer, quoted by the CNN.

Asange has been hiding at the Embassy of the Republic of Equador in the British capital since 2012.

At least nine people were killed when suspected gunmen from Islamist militant group Al-Shabaab stormed the building of Somalia's Higher Education Ministry on Tuesday, triggering a shootout with security forces.

A spokesman for Al-Shabaab, which is linked to al-Qaeda, claimed responsibility for the attack in the centre of Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, the CNN reported.

A group of protesters have locked the attendees of the ground breaking ceremony for Turkey?s first nuclear power plant to protest the construction of the plant in the southern province of Mersin.

Environmentalists from Mersin?s Gülnar neighborhood locked the iron doors of the nuclear facility in the Akkuyu district on April 14, isolating several guests and journalists. 

World-renowned Turkish historian Prof. ?lber Ortayl? slammed late on April 4 a recent push by President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an to shift Turkey's government from a parliamentary system to a presidential one.

"What presidency?" he asked, while commenting on the issue during an interview on broadcaster CNN Türk. "Is it Uruguay here?" he said. "There will be thousands of problems."

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on April 5 again denounced the agreement between Tehran and world powers as a "bad deal" that will strengthen Iran's military and leave it with a large nuclear infrastructure.
      

An investigation into seven Turkish newspapers for publishing the hostage photo of slain prosecutor Mehmet Selim Kiraz was launched on April 2.

A video purportedly showing the final seconds inside the cabin of the ill-fated Germanwings airliner minutes before it crashed has emerged, two European media outlets said April 1, although French police denied the claims.
 
One sequence reportedly shows a chaotic scene with passengers screaming "My God".    

Two men tried to ram a vehicle through the main gate to the United States National Security Agency headquarters building on Monday, the CNN reported.

NSA police shot one of the men dead and seriously injured the second. Their identities aren't available yet.

According to foreign media reports, a shooting took place on Monday near the headquarters of the National Security Administration, after a vehicle rammed the gates leading into Fort Meade, Maryland.