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Turkey has asked Moscow to arrest and extradite Mihrac Ural, the leader of the outlawed People’s Liberation Party-Front (THKP-C), which Turkey has deemed responsible for a deadly attack in the southern province of Hatay in 2013. Ural was seen unexpectedly among participants at the Syria congress in Sochi, Russia this week.

Ankara has refuted recent criticism by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who accused Turkey of "misusing" Interpol while commenting on the release of a Turkish-origin German citizen in Spain, saying the suspect was not sought for his journalistic work but for a fatal armed robbery in 1984. 

An Istanbul court on May 17 sentenced İsmail Akkol, one of the prime suspects in the 1996 assassination of Sabancı Holding board member Özdemir Sabancı, to an aggravated life sentence in one of the country's most notorious assassinations, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

One of the suspects in the 1996 assassination of Özdemir Sabancı, which remains one of the country's most notorious assassinations, pleaded not guilty in his first plea some 20 years after on Sept. 26, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

Police used water cannons to disperse a group of around 40 protesters gathering for a May 1 rally near Taksim Square - a symbolic yet contested venue that remains prohibited on International Workers' Day.

The group of protesters, meeting near the Divan Hotel close to Taksim Square and carrying banners of "Halkevleri" (People's Houses), were dispersed by police using water cannons.

The former head of an outlawed Turkish group, who recently headed a Syrian militia group allied with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad that is accused of the 2013 terror attack in Turkey's Reyhanl?, is reported to have been killed in a clash between Syrian rebels and pro-regime forces in Latakia.

The perpetrator of the massacre on Istanbul's ?stiklal Avenue this weekend turned out to be from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

Turkey is close to identifying one of two suicide bombers responsible for the bombing attack in the capital Ankara which killed at least 97 people, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said in an interview with broadcaster NTV on Monday.

Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is the focus of our investigations, he added.

A retired colonel, who was shot in Istanbul's central Be?ikta? district with his wife on June 7, was reportedly using a fake ID and was the commander who led a military operation in which 10 student members of an illegal revolutionary group were killed in 1972.

The provisional candidate lists for Turkey's upcoming June 7 parliamentary elections were announced on April 15, finalizing the review process of the candidacy lists submitted by the country's political parties to the Supreme Election Board (YSK).