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SunExpress, a joint venture company of Turkish Airlines and Lufthansa, has said it broke another revenue record in 2015, adding that 2016 would be a year for seeking new markets in a written statement on March 2. 

Gulf monarchies on March 2 declared Lebanon's Hezbollah a "terrorist" group, in the latest regional move against the Shiite organisation fighting in support of Syria's regime.

Russia will not stop its air strikes on Syria until armed groups, such as al-Qaeda's wing there, are defeated, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Feb. 3. 

On Feb. 2, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said that Russia should stop bombing opposition forces in Syria now that U.N.-led peace talks have started. 

Turkey's TAV Construction has been awarded the project to build a passenger terminal at Bahrain International Airport, which is undergoing a $1.1 billion upgrade, along with the Dubai-listed Arabtec. 

Located on a 220,000-square-meter area, the new terminal will increase airport capacity from 4 million to 14 million annually, said TAV in a written statement on Jan. 25.

Measures to protect sea turtles on Turkish coasts have been successful, allowing thousands of babies to reach the sea. Very few, however, reach old age Thousands of rare turtles have reached the sea on Turkey's coasts thanks to greater conservation efforts by Turkish authorities, according to Forestry and Water Affairs Minister Veysel Ero?lu.

Kuwait became Jan. 5 the latest Gulf Arab state to recall its ambassador from Iran to protest attacks on Saudi diplomatic missions in the Islamic republic.

Turkey's TAV Construction has once again become the world's largest airport construction company in 2015 on the global list released by the Engineering News-Record (ENR), the company announced in a press release on Jan. 4. 

The total contract value of the projects TAV Construction has undertaken so far has exceeded $17.2 billion.

Oman will cut spending this year by 15.6 percent in the face of lower oil prices but still face a huge deficit after posting one in 2015, Finance Minister Darweesh al-Bloushi said.

The Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra will celebrate New Year's Eve in Oman, performing a concert at the Royal Opera House in Muscat.

Foreign Minister Feridun Sinirlio?lu has kicked off a day-long series of meetings in Vienna on Nov. 13 in effort to maintain momentum for renewed diplomacy towards a political settlement of the conflict in Syria.