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The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) would seek to make changes to the constitution with consensus even if they had the power to alter the document on their own, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu has said.

A police officer who succumbed to his injuries 21 days after being wounded in clashes withthe outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has been buried in his hometown Kocaeli, in northwestern Turkey.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has taken aim at Moscow for "slandering" Ankara with "false accusations" over Turkey's any involvement in illegal oil trade with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), hours after renewed claims were made by the Russian authorities.

Turkey will deport seven Russians suspected of being members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), who were detained on Dec. 1 in Kilis, a southern province bordering Syria.

The seven ISIL-linked Russians, including five children, were detained in Kilis's Elbeyli district early on Dec. 1 as they attempted to cross into Turkey from Syria.

The murder of Tahir Elçi, the head of the Diyarbak?r Bar Association, must be enlightened, the leader of the main opposition party has said, vowing they will closely follow the investigation. 

The agreements reached at the recently held EU-Turkey summit will be implemented and not just "stay on paper," Turkish EU Minister Volkan Bozk?r has said.

"Measures will be taken so that the summit agreements do not stay on paper," Bozk?r told reporters in Ankara on Dec. 2, ahead of a working lunch with EU ambassadors in Brussels.

A gun was found inside a toilet at a court in Istanbul's Kartal district on Dec. 1.

The weapon was found inside a black nylon bag by technical personnel who had been called to fix a breakdown in the men's bathroom on the ground floor of the court's B Block.

After a tough seven-day journey from Edinburgh, Turkey's first Indian rhino Samir has arrived in the Dar?ca Faruk Yalç?n Zoo and Botanical Park in the northwestern province of Kocaeli's Dar?ca district. 

A female rhino will also be brought over next year for the seven-year-old, 3.5-ton Samir. 

The number of new Volkswagen cars registered in Germany declined by 2 percent in November, but VW remained the biggest-selling brand in its home country, official data showed on Dec. 2.  
  

Argentine ex-president Carlos Menem was convicted on corruption charges on Dec. 1, but as with a previous arms trafficking sentence he will escape prison time thanks to his immunity as a senator.

Menem, Argentina's president from 1989 to 1999, was convicted of masterminding the illegal overpayment of high-ranking officials' salaries.