Murat Gezici

So far this year more than 170 bodies have washed up on the shores of the Mediterranean while the Libyan Coast Guard has also rescued thousands more.

IOM has helped repatriate 1,500 people back to West Africa so far this year where it is trying to inform people not to risk the journey to Libya where they face exploitation.

There are less than 40 days left until the referendum on constitutional amendments that will grant unprecedented power to Turkey's president. But pollsters are having the hardest time in decades on how to distribute the undecided voters or not distribute them at all.

The question is not mine. It is not even a question. It is an open curse to womanhood.

A local research company, which was previously raided by government inspectors after releasing an opinion poll showing Turkey's ruling party losing votes, announced Sept. 19 that its pollsters were detained in Istanbul while conducting a field study.

A local research company has reportedly been raided by inspectors from the Finance Ministry, two days after releasing its latest public opinion poll showing support for Turkey?s ruling party below 40 percent.