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Investigation launched into Turkish protester demanding to be returned to his job

An investigation has been launched into a Turkish sociologist who has been carrying out a protest demanding to be returned to his job in the capital Ankara. 

Veli Saçılık, a sociologist who was dismissed from his post with a state of emergency decree, has been carrying out a protest to demand that he be returned to his job and that two jailed educators on hunger strike be released. 

Turkish parliamentary panel questions rounds of plastic bullets shot by police at demonstrator

The head of a parliamentary commission has demanded information from the Ankara Governor's Office and police regarding dozens of plastic bullets that police recently fired at a demonstrator who has led a long campaign to be reinstated in his job.

We are sane and well, very well

In Istanbul, the sun is trying to find its way through cotton-like clouds that are all covering the sky. The sun is trying to find itself a path in the sky.  

It is the right time for idlers who are lucky enough to sit on a bank by the Bosphorus and watch the sea that has turned into a shiny blue cover…