Anadolu Agency

Torrential rain has caused flash flooding in Istanbul since early July 19, prompting road closures and disrupting life across parts of the city.
      
Okmeydanı, Levent, Başakşehir, Arnavutköy and Sultangazi districts were among the most affected areas, where floods made some roads impassable and submerged work places, Anadolu Agency (AA) reported.

Experts have said the U.K. may take a step toward hydraulic fracking to extract shale gas, given the high economic cost of subsidizing renewable energy, as the new Cabinet also signals such a tendency.

The U.K.’s new energy and environment ministers have bluntly said they oppose renewable energy and favor hydraulic fracking for extracting shale gas instead.

Turkey’s Constitutional Court has ruled that the murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink was not efficiently probed and the rights of his family were therefore violated.

A Syrian guide of Turkey’s Anadolu Agency was killed on July 16 in a rocket attack, the state-run agency has reported.

Ahmed abu Rasha was killed as the team drove toward Museyir, an Aleppo district controlled by rebels, to cover a bombing incident.

Turkey has drawn a new red line since the latest meeting of the National Security Council (MGK), and that red line is the fight against the “parallel structure” that has attempted to topple the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government, a senior party executive has stated. which gathers the country’s top civilian and military leaders.

The long-awaited high-speed railway line between Turkey’s capital Ankara and its largest city Istanbul will be officially opened by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on July 25, Transport Minister Lütfi Elvan announced July 8.

Anadolu Agency has faced 24 cyber-attacks so far this year, mostly from the U.S., Canada and China, Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç said on July 4.

In reply to a written parliamentary question by Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) deputy Özcan Yeniçeri, the agency has taken measures in order to advance Internet security infrastructure since January 2014, Arınç said.

Northern Iraq, one of the most oil-rich regions in the world, faces a fuel shortage after militants from the Islamic State (IS), formally known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), overran large parts of the country, including a key refinery.

As of March 2014, the total number of children in prison and detention centers throughout Turkey stands at 1,686, Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ has said.

Bozdağ’s statement came in response to a motion filed by Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Ankara deputy Özcan Yeniçeri, Anadolu Agency reported on July 2.

Khaleed Meshal, the political leader of Hamas, has called Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu to inform him about the developments in the region and Israel’s operations in Gaza and the West Bank, Anadolu Agency reported June 30.