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A Russian warship passed through Istanbul's Bosphorus en route to the Mediterranean on the morning of Dec. 6, with one soldier seen in footage holding a ground-to-air missile, private broadcaster NTV has reported.

The soldier held the missile on his shoulder in the shooting position during the passing of Russia's Caesar Kunikov warship.

At least 27 people have been killed after gunmen stormed a luxury hotel in Mali's capital and took around 170 hostages on Nov. 20, a U.N. official told Reuters, while seven Turkish Airlines staff members in the hotel have been rescued. 

With just days to go to Turkey's snap general election on Nov. 1, President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has again voiced his clear preference for having a "single-party government" elected to rule the country.

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu pointed to Islamic State (IS) as the prime suspect for the twin suicide bombings near the central railway station of Ankara on Saturday.

The attack targeted the participants in a peace rally protesting the escalating violence between Turkish security forces and the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) is the focus of investigations into a twin suicide bombing that killed at least 97 people in the Turkish capital Ankara and investigators are close to identifying one of the suspects, Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu said on Oct. 12. 

The Justice and Development Party (AKP) has made solid steps to fight against corruption, former Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan has claimed in an interview with private broadcaster NTV, saying that if it did not do so it would become a sustainability issue for the party.

The political backstage of Ankara was stirred at lunchtime on Sept. 17, when President Tayyip Erdo?an paid an unplanned visit to Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu to perform Friday prayers together in the mosque inside the Çankaya prime ministerial - formerly presidential - compound on top of the capital?s Çankaya Hill. 

Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Ar?nç has defended telling a female member of parliament to ?be quiet, as a woman? was not a sexist insult.

?Would I address her as ?madam? if I intended to insult by asking her to be quiet as a woman?? Ar?nç said on private broadcaster NTV on Aug. 3.

The Turkish military on July 25 carried out fresh airstrikes and shelling against targets controlled by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) jihadists in Syria and embarked on a new air campaign to bombard camps of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants in northern Iraq.
  

Turkish warplanes launched attacks on camps of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in northern Iraq late July 24, Do?an News Agency reported.
   
The attacks followed airstrikes into northern Syria, where Turkish fighter jets targetted Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) bases.