Ali Kemal

Lawyers have expressed the need to impose harsher judicial penalties for incidents involving stray bullets resulting in fatalities or injuries, citing the increasing number of such cases.

Istanbul Bar has found Fatma Begüm Kaçmaz, a female lawyer accused of breaking the advertising law in her profession by broadcasting videos on her social media account gaining fame by it, not guilty and said there is no need for a disciplinary penalty.

Kaçmaz opened a social media account named "Adliyede bir gün," (A day at courthouse), in 2019 and aired videos showing her at work.

A senior Turkish diplomat on Feb. 19 met the families of the victims of a 2020 racist attack in the town of Hanau, Germany.

Brexit hardliner Boris Johnson, whose family roots reach back to an Ottoman interior minister Ali Kemal, won the contest to lead Britain's governing Conservative Party on July 23 and will become the country's next prime minister, tasked with fulfilling his promise to lead the U.K. out of the European Union.

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım has held talks with the German chancellor and Azerbaijani president in Munich on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference on Feb. 18. 

Yıldırım first met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Feb. 18, for a breakfast meeting in Munich. 
While the meeting was closed to the press, it lasted around 50 minutes. 

The 15th !f Istanbul Independent Film Festival closed on Feb. 27 with an award ceremony during which the "!f !nspired Competition," "Love & Change" and the "Shorts from Turkey Audience" awards were given out.