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U.S. electric carmaker Tesla has placed job advertisements on its website for its prospective store in Istanbul.
"As we prepare for our exciting new entry in to Turkey, we are looking to recruit a number of Tesla Advisors to join us," it said in one of the ads.

Turkey will launch its Turksat 5B communications satellite into orbit next month, a senior official said on Nov. 24.

"One of the prominent features of Turksat 5B, which will be launched into an orbital slot at 42 degrees East, is to increase Turkey's Ka-band data communication capacity 15-fold," Transport and Infrastructure Minister Adil Karaismailoğlu said in a statement.

Major Turkish companies showcased their products on Sept. 8 at the world's biggest satellite conference.

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Turkey's communications satellite operator TURKSAT, Turkish Aerospace Industries TUSAŞ, and PROFEN, which provides products and services communications and defense Technologies, attended the SATELLITE 2021 conference in the U.S. state of Maryland.

Turkish defense giant Aselsan has developed its own video conferencing software for internal communications.

The software, called XperMeet, will meet the company's security needs with its end-to-end encipherment and SSL certificate.

XperMeet offers the ability to host meetings, training and organizing panels and webinars as well as voice calls and messaging.

Turkey's Constitutional Court rejected the first individual application related to the July 2016 coup attempt on June 20, ruling out the application of Aydın Yavuz, who was detained on the grounds of allegedly participating in events at satellite company TÜRKSAT on the night of the attempted coup.

Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmuş on March 28 called for a high turnout of Turkish voters living abroad for the upcoming constitutional referendum.        

Speaking at an airport in Turkey's Ordu province on the Black Sea coast, he said overseas voters would "show their belonging to Turkey" by casting  their ballots.        

Turkey has transferred stakes worth billions of dollars in Ziraat Bank, the Borsa Istanbul stock exchange, Turkish Airlines and state-owned pipeline operator BOTAŞ, among others, to a new sovereign wealth fund, in a bid to help finance giant infrastructure projects. 

U.K.-based satellite communications company Inmarsat and Turkey's satellite operator TurkSat have signed a partnership agreement to collaborate in the satellite service, maritime communication, defense and aerospace sectors.

At least 90 people have been killed and 1154 were wounded during the clashes and incidents after a group of soldiers attempted a coup starting from late on July 15, Anadolu Agency reported. 

A prosecutor in the Gölbaşı district said 42 of the dead were in Ankara.

The opening of the country?s first space system integration and satellite testing center constitutes Turkey?s first step towards space, making it an assertive country on space studies, President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an said on May 21.