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With a brutal crackdown on peaceful protests, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government lighted the fuse to which has now become a decade-old conflict, leaving hundreds of thousands of people dead and millions displaced.

Almost 1.2 million babies were born in Turkey in 2019, according to data made public by the Interior Ministry's General Directorate of Civil Registration and Citizenship.

Of the 1,180,840 babies born, 8,816 male babies were named Yusuf, and 6,857 male babies were named Eymen.
The most popular names given to female babies were Zeynep, with 13,420, followed by Elif, with 8,586.

A Turkish court lessened the penalty of a man who stabbed his wife to death in the southeastern province of Diyarbak?r on Feb. 14, 2015, from a life sentence to 20 years in prison on the conviction that the perpetrator would not commit a murder again.