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A migrant was electrocuted to death at the Greek-Macedonian border on Dec. 3 during a second successive day of clashes between police and migrants stranded for weeks on the Greek side. 

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu accused Moscow of running a "Soviet propaganda machine" with lies straight out of the Pravda newspaper after Russian officials claimed Ankara traded oil with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Syria.

Turkey seized some 4.4 million drug pills in 2013, while the number was some 4.8 million across the European Union the same year, according to Prof. Necdet Ünüvar, the head of Turkey's Technical Board for the Fight Against Drugs. 

The historical Oruçbey Bath, located in the Osmangazi district of Turkey's northwestern province of Bursa, has been put on the market for $1.65 million. 

The bath was built in the 15th century in the Hisar neighborhood of Osmangazi, and one of its current owners, Arife Varol, said it was inherited by her and five other siblings from her father.  

The European Central Bank adjusted its asset purchase program known as quantitative easing on Dec. 3, extending the scheme's duration into 2017 and agreeing to buy euro-denominated municipal and regional bonds, ECB President Mario Draghi said. 

Russia has detained 15 Turkish citizens working at a carpet factory in Rostov, a town northeast of Moscow, despite all workers having valid residency and work permits.

Russian officials and military units raided Merinos Russia, a company owned by Turkey's largest carpet manufacturer Merinos, on Dec. 1. 

Istanbul police have detained a minibus driver who chased and threatened a passenger with a knife, after which the passenger fell and broke his foot.

An Uzbek national has been charged in Istanbul for plotting to kill a leading Uzbek dissident, according to prosecutors.

The suspect, identified as M.D., appeared in court late Dec. 3 and was held in custody on a charge of plotting to kill Mohammad Salih, who heads the Uzbekistan People's Movement, and his son Timur.

Turkish authorities are ready to compensate Turkish exporters over possible losses stemming from Russian sanctions, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu said late Dec. 2. 

"I want to express to our business world that whoever is damaged by these sanctions, our measures to compensate them are already ready now," he said.

A proposed change to France's constitution would not place a time limit on states of emergency of the kind introduced after the Paris attacks, according to a draft text seen by AFP on Dec. 3.