Orhan Atalay
Mosul hostage diplomat gets into parliament on CHP ticket
Former Turkish consul-general Öztürk Y?lmaz, who was among 49 people kidnapped by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) for 101 days in Iraq's Mosul and released in September 2014, has become a member of parliament on the Republican People's Party (CHP) ticket, while also helping the party to increase its votes in the Nov. 1 polls.
Indonesians hit back at cleric's fatwa with Erdo?an selfie
Hundreds of Indonesian social media users have mocked a cleric who claimed selfie photographs are forbidden by Islam in a twitter campaign that featured a shot of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an.