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Firefighters are battling to contain forest fires that erupted on June 27 in Turkey's Mediterranean province of Muğla's Marmaris, a famous resort town that sacrifices its dense forests due to the forest fires that break out every summer.

Heavy snowfall and cold weather conditions disrupted traffic and paralyzed daily life in Istanbul on Feb. 17.

According to the Metropolitan Disaster Coordination Center (AKOM), temperatures will rise to seasonal norms on Feb. 18.

"Snow thickness in the high and rural areas of the city reached up to 30 centimeters," said AKOM in a statement.

The main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Spokesperson Faik Öztrak condemned last week's separate attacks at Future Party Vice-Chair Selçuk Özdağ, journalist Orhan Ugüroğlu and lawyer Afşin Hatipoğlu on Jan. 18.

With a new project for art lovers who have had to confine to their houses due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the works of the State Theaters (DT) will be made available online for viewers to watch them at home.

A local man living in the eastern province of Van's İpekyolu district turns wood pieces that he finds anywhere on streets or in nearby surroundings into toys and presents them to the kids in his neighborhood.

A court ruling in Istanbul, which allowed a man to walk free after his wife died in hospital after being beaten by him, said in its reasoning that the man had beat his wife ?non-fatally.?

An Istanbul court has released from prison a man who beat to death his wife, who was undergoing cancer treatment at the time, after serving just one year of his three-year sentence. 

A Turkish actor, who was claimed to be suffering from a psychological disorder, has slit his father's throat in the Kahta district of the southeastern province of Ad?yaman.

Around 53 million people are heading to the ballot box across Turkey on Aug. 10 to choose the country’s next president, who will be elected in a popular vote for the first time in the nation’s history.