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A Doğan Holding initiative, the "Shared Values Movement," which aims to create a dialogue environment where various segments of Turkish society can express their belief in common values, has released a new series of interviews with notable public figures in the country such as Türkan Elçi, İpek Çalışlar and Ali Çarkoğlu. 

As part of its extensive social research project the "Shared Values Movement," Doğan Holding has published details of the answers given by various Turkish public figures to the initiative's main question: "What do we all share?" 

Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi announced early on Oct. 17 that an offensive had begun to retake Mosul, the country's second biggest city, from under the occupation of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

Joost Lagendijk, the former co-chair of the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee and Today's Zaman columnist, was denied entry to Turkey on Sept. 25 after his flight from the Netherlands landed at Istanbul's Sabiha Gökçen Airport.

The rationale provided by German deputies, including those of Turkish origin, for supporting the non-binding parliamentary resolution in the Bundestag that refers to the mass killings of Armenians in 1915 as "genocide," is that this "will contribute to healing the wound between Turks and Armenians," and "will also help normalize ties between Turkey and Armenia."

DOST party will work toward strengthening Bulgaria's relations with neighbouring Turkey, its leader Lyutvi Mestan has said.

"The Republic of Turkey can be of great help to us," Mestan told Turkey's Anadolu Agency on Sunday in his first interview for foreign media after last week's founding of DOST party.

It was at that time when the Welfare Party (RP) was closed and the Virtue Party (FP) had just been formed. I was the Ankara representative of daily Radikal then. A three-person team from the paper interviewed the FP party chair, Recai Kutan. 

Serhat Hac?pa?al?o?lu will represent San Marino at the Eurovision, as the first Turk representing another country in the history of the competition Serhat Hac?pa?al?o?lu will make his mark as the first Turk to represent another country at the 
Eurovision Song Contest this year, fronting the challenge from mountainous microstate San Marino. 

Two Turkish citizens have been killed while two others have been injured as unknown gunmen opened fire in the capital of Afghanistan on the same day as another Turkish citizen was abducted in Kabul. 

Is it important to an ordinary Turk whether there is parliamentary democratic governance or presidential governance in this country? Does an ordinary Turk understand the difference between the two or does he believe either of the two might make a difference in his life? The country has been covered with a very thick veil of fear.