Dursun Ali

An historic synagogue in Istanbul has reopened with a morning prayer performed for the first time in 65 years - another significant step for Turkey's Jewish community.

A Tefilah, a prayer performed three times per day, was performed early on Jan. 8 in the ??tipol Synagogue in Balat, a neighborhood on Istanbul's European side on the shores of the Golden Horn, daily Vatan reported.

The governor of Edirne has inaugurated a watering trough in the northwestern province, built to provide drinking water to cattle and other livestock, with an official ceremony in Edirne's Azakl? village. 

The Food, Agriculture and Livestock Ministry constructed water troughs for animals in 13 villages across Edirne. 

Turkey, which hosts the world's largest refugee population, has so far spent $7.6 billion caring for 2.2 million Syrians who have fled strife in the Arab republic, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmu? said Sept. 18.

Around 150 Syrian migrants have returned to Istanbul after authorities blocked their way to Greece in the border province of Edirne, but a similar number have arrived at the highway waiting to enter the province.

Edirne?s governor has given a large number of refugees three days to leave his border province following the beginning of a march by Syrian refugees to the Thracian region in an effort to cross by land into Greece en route to Germany.

Migrants in Turkey have been denied access to provinces which are not listed on their identity cards, according to a notice issued by the Interior Ministry.

Civil servants in the northwestern province of Edirne have been permitted to arrive at work one hour late on the condition of spending that hour exercising, the city's governor recently announced. 

Edirne Governor Dursun Ali ?ahin said in a recent interview civil servants were allowed to turn up late for work, as long as they spend the time exercising.

Convicts have been used to work on the excavations of the Yemi?çi Kapan? Ottoman Inn, which is located in the garden of the iconic Selimiye Mosque, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2011. 

Around 250 Yazidis who left a refugee camp in the southeastern province of Diyarbak?r to go to Bulgaria have been sent to a camp in Mardin, another southeastern province, after they were caught close to a border gate in the country?s northwest.

Around 250 Yezidis who left a refugee camp in the southeastern province of Diyarbak?r to go to Bulgaria have been sent to a camp in Mardin, another southeastern province, after they were caught close to a border gate in the country?s northwest.