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Veteran theater actor Genco Erkal, the founder of Dostlar Theater in Ankara, died of leukemia on July 31 at the age of 86. He was known as the "master of one-man plays."

Dostlar Theater shared the news on its official account in the early hours of the morning with an emotional message, saying, "Goodbye my friends, goodbye…"

Yavuz Çizmeci, a partner in the company that leased the plane involved in a deadly 2007 crash in the southern province of Isparta, was apprehended at Istanbul Airport on May 16, after 17 years on the run.

Sleep disorders and post-traumatic stress disorders have become much more common after the deadly earthquakes that ripped through Türkiye's south last month, experts say.

A commemoration event has been held in the Russian capital of Moscow on the 120th anniversary of the birth of Nazım Hikmet, one of the most influential and remarkable poets in Turkish history.

Turkey on June 3 marked the 58th death anniversary of legendary Turkish poet Nazım Hikmet.

Hikmet was born in 1902 to an elite family in Thessaloniki, an Ottoman Empire territory in present-day Greece. He grew up in Anatolia, the Turkish heartland.

With nearly 100 countries in the world waiting to receive their coronavirus vaccine jabs due to the insufficient number of doses, it has given way to a new tourism approach in which travel agencies are organizing vaccination tours on demand for those who do not want to wait in the vaccine queue.

A stash of cutting and piercing tools that are believed to have belonged to former inmates has been discovered in the capital Ankara's notorious Ulucanlar Prison during the restoration work of a 135-year-old fountain located in front of the complex.

The youth wing of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has claimed to have killed an operative of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Istanbul.