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Following the local elections held on March 31, multiple parties have challenged various results, particularly in constituencies where the race was tightly contested, sparking a flurry of demands for recounts and calls for renewed elections.

In Istanbul, both the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) have raised objections.

The fifth Islamic Solidarity Games, hosting some 4,200 international athletes coming to the Central Anatolian province, has started in Konya, while the Turkish team has bagged 40 medals.

The Istanbul Chief Prosecutor's Office has demanded up to one-and-a-half year in jail for an employee at a McDonalds' branch who threw boiling water on a seven-year-old boy in Istanbul.

Mutlu Haceroğlu threw boiled water on Polat Kara at the restaurant in Istanbul's upscale Nişantaşı district on May 9. 

A girl who was wounded when a rocket projectile from Syria hit a schoolyard in the southeastern province of Kilis died on Jan. 29, 11 days after the incident.

Gülten Canpolat, who was studying at Eyüp Gökçe ?mam Secondary School, lost her life in the Gaziantep University hospital's intensive care unit.

Turkey's army bombarded targets across the border in Syria on Jan. 18, hours after rocket fire hit a school garden in the southeastern province of Kilis, killing one woman and wounding a student.