Doğan News Agency

The suspect in the gruesome murder of an Azeri woman in Istanbul has been arrested after 13 years, as "the puzzle" has finally been solved thanks to new forensic technologies, Doğan News Agency reported.

Efforts to retrieve 18 workers trapped in a Karaman mine have entered the sixth day as the energy minister avoided giving an exact deadline as to when the teams would reach the miners.

Istanbul’s Üsküdar Municipality has decided to halt the construction of a small mosque next to the Validebağ grove, after activists continued to brave inclement weather by camping out on the site to prevent the cutting down of the grove's trees.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has long encouraged families to have at least three children, but one father in Hatay has gone the extra mile, siring 32 children from four wives.

Thirty-two, however, is apparently not enough for Halit Tekin, who has ambitions to over-fulfill his child quota by fathering a total of 50 kids.

The owner of the flooded mine where 18 workers are trapped is a former mayoral candidate for the ruling AKP The mine where 18 workers remain trapped after a flood on Oct. 28 is owned by a former mayoral candidate from Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP).

A group of armed militants have abducted 10 workers from a local electricity distribution company, Doğan News Agency reported on Oct. 22.

The workers of the company were on duty near the Gürpınar village in a rural area of Silvan district when the road was blocked by a group of unidentified militants.

The internal diseases service of one of Istanbul’s largest public hospitals has been closed due to a mange epidemic, most likely caused by a subcontractor worker.

Göztepe Training and Research Hospital’s internal diseases department has been placed under quarantine and all patients have been transferred to other sections of the hospital after mange was detected in the service.

Local officials in central Turkey are making a special effort to protect stork nests located on top of utility poles.

Storks have built nests on at least 80 utility poles in the Kızılırmak neighborhood of the Çankırı province, which is a common migratory route for these birds.

Local officials in central Turkey are making a special effort to protect stork nests located on top of utility poles.

Storks have built nests on at least 80 utility poles in the Kızılırmak neighborhood of the Çankırı province, which is a common migratory route for these birds.

A Turkish woman has filed a criminal complaint after she discovered semen in in her shoes, prompting local police to compare the DNA with the samples in the database of sex offenders.