General Directorate

The Culture and Tourism Ministry State Opera and Ballet (DOB) General Directorate will continue performing in the Central Anatolian province of Eski?ehir, southeastern province of Mardin, southern provinces of Mersin and Antalya and Istanbul throughout the summer. 

Bulgaria's special prosecution is investigating five officials from the Fund for Treatment of Children Abroad, including its former head, Pavel Aleksandrov, for corruption, it said on Thursday.

The  administrators of the fund, who have been charged with participating in an organized criminal group, corruption and official misconduct, were all released on bail. 

Istanbul Atatürk Airport, which is operated by TAV Airports, became in 2015the 11th largest airport worldwide by providing service to 61.8 million passengers over the course of the year, the company said in a written statement on April 6. 

The threat of drones to civil aviation traffic has been rising in Turkey and the country may use eagles in a bid to ease this threat, according to officials. 

Bulgaria decided to deploy more than 400 security men at its border with Greece to prevent a possible increase in migration flow, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov announced.

The country, though, is not included, at least for now, in the route used by immigrants and refugees to reach northern European countries and refugee flow from Greece to Bulgaria is currently rare.

An Ankara administrative court has rejected a mandate bidding to make flight announcements and warnings in Kurdish, in addition to Turkish, in flights through Diyarbak?r Airport in the southeastern Turkish province. 

During the restoration of the 800-year-old Alaaddin Mosque in the southern province of Antalya's Korkuteli district, the structure's crown gate, a rare example of stone masonry, has been broken into pieces. 

Turkish artist Mehmet Aksoy's sculpture, which was removed on Jan. 7 from its spot for 12 years in Istanbul's Ümraniye neighborhood after a court decision that the location belonged to the General Directorate of National Property, will be placed in the Avc?lar neighborhood. 

The senior management of IGA, the company established to construct and operate the third airport of Istanbul, said local companies will be preferred in 10-billion-euro construction for the airport. 

A five-month-old Syrian baby has died on a Turkish Airlines flight from the southeastern province of Gaziantep to Istanbul, ahead of deportation with his mother to France over alleged links to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).