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In recent months, Greece has become a battleground for rival criminal groups from Turkey, with the list of casualties growing rapidly and being “enriched” with new victim names. What unites them is their involvement in arms and drug trafficking.

The 51-year-old Yusuf Dikec will bring a medal back to Türkiye having secured second place in the 10-meter air rifle mixed event, alongside Seval Ilayda Tarhan. At the Paris 2024 Olympics, they missed the gold by a narrow margin, with a score of 16-1

All seems fine so far, and it wouldn’t be significant news except for the fact that the 51-year-old had almost no equipment.

A 22-year old Turkish national was jailed pending trial in Greece on Tuesday after killing another Turk and seriously injuring a third in a gun attack, with police sources saying both victims were members of a criminal gang.

The gun attack took place at a supermarket in the port city of Piraeus on Friday afternoon.

A deal allowing Italy to build reception camps in Albania for thousands of migrants arriving by sea raises concerns about arbitrary detention and living conditions, the UN human rights chief said on Thursday.

A 17-year-old has crossed the Atlantic Ocean in a single-engine airplane, becoming the first Turkish person to achieve this feat.

Selim Sulyak has set a record in the history of Turkish Civil Aviation by staying in the air for 36 hours and 30 minutes in a single-engine airplane.

In the latest installment of threatening rhetoric, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has threatened Greece with a "crazy Turk" attack if it does not wise up. 

Speaking at a rally in Istanbul on Friday, he said Turkey's Tayfun missile has scared Greece and stressed, "We are not so concerned about striking Athens as long as you [Greece] are smart." 

An inscription belonging to an unspecified period before the 1071 Battle of Manzikert, known as the victory that led the Turks to first enter Anatolia, has been found in the Central Anatolian province of Konya, with the head of the excavation informing it's the "evidence of the Turkish presence in the 10th century."

The world's tallest man, a Turk from the southeastern province of Mardin, has made an offer to the world's tallest woman, another Turk from the Black Sea province of Karabük, to team up and attend organizations across the globe together for promoting Turkey.

Teknofest, one of the world's biggest aviation, space and technology festivals, will hold its first edition abroad in the Azerbaijani capital Baku in May.

The four-day event that is scheduled to take place between May 26 and May 29 will feature 10 technology competitions in fields such as rockets, agriculture, and unmanned aerial vehicles.

A young university graduate, who is said to be the first Turk to get a scholarship from the U.K. monarch, has become a businesswoman producing water tanks made of "concrete canvas" and installing them in arid lands, especially in African countries.