Communications Ministry

Geron was a past deputy director-general for engineering and licensing at the Communications Ministry

The Pioneering Spirit vessel, which will carry out construction of the offshore section of the Turkish Stream natural gas pipeline, transited Istanbul's Bosphorus on May 31, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.  
      

An Ankara court ordered to ban Wikipedia in Turkey after the site’s administration refused to remove two English language pages which claimed that Turkey channeled support to jihadists in Syria, daily Habertürk reported on May 1.

Turkey has blocked access to online encyclopedia Wikipedia, the country's telecommunications watchdog said on April 29, citing a law allowing it to ban access to websites deemed obscene or a threat to national security.

Istanbul's Büyükçekmece Chief Public Prosecutor's Office has launched an investigation into a civilian helicopter crash in Istanbul on March 10 that killed seven people aboard the chopper.

The prosecutor's office opened an investigation with two public prosecutors into the incident, state-run Anadolu Agency said.

A Danish tourist has died on Feb. 18 after he fell of a hot air balloon in Turkey's Cappadocia region while the balloon was making a bumpy landing due to strong winds. 

Iran’s senior cleric criticized what he perceived as women’s overly liberal choices of clothing “as if they were in Europe,” and accused the trend of being behind one of Iran’s rivers drying up.

Turkey will launch its TURKSAT 4B communications satellite from the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan on Oct. 16, according to a statement by the Transportation, Maritime Affairs and Communications Ministry.

The TURKSAT 4B Communication Satellite is Turkey's sixth to be put into orbit and will work in tandem with a similar one named Turksat 4A, which was launched on Feb. 25, 2015.

Turkey has launched its TURKSAT 4B communications satellite from the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan, according to a statement released on Oct. 15 by the Transportation, Maritime Affairs and Communications Ministry.

The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor?s Office has urged the Communications Ministry to hamper all media communications of the government?s ally-turned-foe Fethullah Gülen by withdrawing state means used to facilitate the broadcasts.