Hürriyet

Hürriyet, one of the highest-circulating newspapers in Turkey, on Nov. 6 announced the appointment of journalist Ahmet Hakan as the new editor-in-chief.

As Turkish jets continued to violate Greek air space over the Aegean Tuesday, Greek defense sources played down reports that Turkey's Defense Minister Hulusi Akar flew over the Aegean Sea in a jet trainer.

Municipal authorities in Istanbul have given the go-ahead for the construction of the first Orthodox church in the city since 1923, Turkish newspaper Hurriyet reported on Wednesday.

This was told to Sputnik by the leader of the opposition Turkish party Vatan, Dogu Perincek, who claims to have learned it from reliable sources.

On the other hand, Turkish President Recep Erdogan claims that the body has not been found.

Turkey has set up eleven surveillance stations on the Aegean coast as part of the first phase of the Coast Surveillance Radar System (SGRS) Project which aims to "halt illegal activities" in the sea, Turkish newspaper Hurriyet reported on Wednesday.

Miodrag Skendzic of the Lasta bus company told Tanjug that no fight or altercation between Serbian and Turkish tourists preceded the incident - as reported by some Turkish media.

He stressed that no one was injured and that very small damage was done to the bus, which has been leased by the travel agency Rhapsody Travel - and that Serbian tourists "can safely return to Serbia."

Turkish daily Hurriyet reported this on Monday.

The court also sentenced 21 people to 20 years in prison for insulting the president and 31 people to 10 years and six months for membership in a terrorist organization.

Austria has begun to cancel the dual citizenship of Turkey's settlers in the country, according to information in the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet.

Authorities in Vienna check the status of everyone on the list of voters in the constitutional referendum in April last year. in Turkey, and in particular which ones have both Turkish and Austrian citizenship.

An incident on Monday night involving a Turkish helicopter flying at low altitude with its lights out near the Greek islet of Ro is seen by Athens as yet another demonstration of Ankara's strategy of continued tension in the Aegean, Ekathimerini writes.

The Turkish prime minister's office has denied an incident involving a lights-out Turkish helicopter flight off Greece's eastern Aegean islet of Ro, Hurriyet reports quoting sources.

Earlier Tuesday, Maximos Mansion confirmed the late Monday incident, which prompted Greek troops to fire tracer rounds as a warning, adding however that the helicopter did not violate Greece's airspace.