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Turkey flew its flags at half-mast on July 15 in a show of solidarity with France after the deadly Nice attack, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım has announced.

"We are flying our flags half-mast today [July 15] for solidarity with France," Yıldırım told reporters in the capital Ankara.

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) must immediately be pushed back from the Turkish border, said Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavu?o?lu, who has intensified diplomatic efforts on Syria ahead of a May 9 meeting in Paris, adding that efforts were continuing to accomplish this goal.

Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavu?o?lu has exchanged views with his French counterpart on developments surrounding the Syrian conflict, with a particular focus on concerns stemming from renewed rebel shelling of government-held areas in the deeply contested northern city of Aleppo.

The lower house of the French parliament, the National Assembly, on Thursday voted in favor of a resolution calling for lifting of anti-Russian sanctions.

The resolution proposed by the opposition calls on the French government to protest extension of EU sanctions against Moscow, Sputnik reported.

Following the controversy caused by French airline’s ‘Air France’ hostesses last week to refusal to comply with a new internal uniform regulation that compelled them to cover up their hair while working on the France-Teheran route, which saw the company back down and allow employees to abstain from the specific route with no consequences, the homosexual airhostesses and hosts are also campaigni

Tourists from all over the world are flocking to a small French seaside town where nudity is mandatory.

The Village Naturiste at Cap d’Agde is a magnet for nudists and has facilities, such as a nude bank, hairdressers, opticians and supermarket.

Police have used tear gas to disperse demonstrators in Paris who are protesting against the new labor reforms.

According to Le Figaro newspaper, a group of 30 young people broke the windows of banks and shops, while throwing rocks to police officers. Many people were arrested, according to Le Parisien.

France opened its first international-standard refugee camp in the teeth of official opposition on March 7, while demolition continued at the nearby Calais "Jungle" camp.

Three families of Iraqi Kurds were the first to arrive at the new camp in Grande-Synthe near Dunkirk on the northern French coast, an AFP reporter said.

The French government has produced a cartoon strip guide on how to survive a terror attack in the aftermath of the multiple attacks that gripped Paris on November 13. Three responses are recommended: Flee, hide and raise the alarm. The guide will be pinned up at various points, such as railway stations and other gathering points.

The cancellation of the football match between the Netherlands and Germany in Hannover on Nov. 17 was something rare, if not unique. It perhaps marked the first time that not only a city, but an entire nation - and actually the whole of Europe - was terrorized without an actual act of terrorism taking place.