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Turkish calligraphers have sold 71 works and collected some 2 million Turkish Liras (over $100,000) within the scope of an auction they organized for people affected by the Feb. 6 earthquakes, donating the proceeds to the Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD).

The auction, organized by Calligraphy Art Atelier, was broadcast live on social media.

Journalism never gets old. Even so, the 60th year is a great milestone on a long journey, and today, the Hürriyet Daily News has reached it.

The Daily News, founded in 1961, is currently the oldest English-language daily in Turkey.

Turkey and the world have changed enormously in the last 60 years, spanning the era between the Cold War and the COVID-19 pandemic.

The wounded man seen hugging his injured wife in the iconic image captured by Reuters photographer Tümay Berkin in the aftermath of the Oct. 10 Ankara bombing was ?zzettin Çevik, a teacher working in the southeastern province of ?anl?urfa.

A Turkish transsexual woman, who was a soldier before living as a woman, died following gender reassignment surgery in a hospital in the southern province of Antalya on Jan. 20, according to reports.