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Daphne Öz, daughter of celebrity doctor Mehmet Öz and co-host of the cooking-themed talk show "The Chew," has topped a list of the 30 most influential Turkish-American women, according to a Turkish-American business magazine.

?The Europe of companies wants Turkey in,? a high level Turkish official told me, adding that although ?Turkey means business? Europe still cannot invest as much as it wants in the country.

The Europe of governments, however, has fallen victim to populism, long maintaining its distance from Turkey?s already slow accession to the 28-nation bloc.

There are no white Turks; there are no black Turks either. There are people who call themselves "black Turks" thinking they are making sense. They are only trying to make you feel sorry for them. They use that sentiment to oppress all of us There are no white Turks, just as there are no black Turks either. Don't believe what others say. Believe me.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) decided on June 23 that there was no violation of the European charter?s article on the right to life in a case concerning Peoples? Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Selahattin Demirta?, who had complained that he had been exposed to a risk of death due to an article published in a local newspaper in 2007. 

The first Turk to sail around the world, Sadun Boro, has died at the age of 87. 

Boro died in hospital in the Marmaris district of the Aegean province of Mu?la, where he was being treated for cancer, on June 5. 

Hürriyet correspondent Ç?nar Oskay and photojournalist Sebati Karakurt write about the unfortunate league final for Tractor Sazi Tabriz, an Iranian football club with its Azeri fans who sport Turkish nationalist symbols.

There must be millions of column inches of credible material in print or on the web explaining why President/Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has been winning and winning and winning ? and will win again on June 7.

Özcan Purçu, who is expected to become the first ever Roma politician in the Turkish Parliament, has said he opted to be nominated from the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) as the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP) "Roma initiative" ultimately failed.

Oscar Wilde is quoted as saying ?the one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.? Recently, for some reason, Turkish journalists have been taking this duty upon themselves.

Since the dawn of time every Muslim is a Turk in the eyes of the West, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has claimed, stressing it was not used as a term of superiority but rather as proof grounded in historical evidence.