Yasemin

Filming has begun for a biopic that chronicles the 79-year life and works of folk poet Aşık Veysel Şatıroğlu, in his hometown, the Central Anatolian province of Sivas.

Thousands of animal rights activists gathered in Istanbul's Fatih district to protest the newly enacted legislation on stray dogs following the call to action disseminated via social media by various associations.

Özyeğin University's "Yaklaş 2030 Program" aims to raise awareness about the global water problem by using a drying stream on campus as the basis for the student projects exhibited at the "Greenhack" event organized on the occasion of World Environment Day.

The Turkish Cycling Federation has stressed the need of deterrent penalties following the tragic deaths of three cyclists in crashes over the course of the last two weeks, which raised attention to the necessity for safer cycling practices.

Young basketball player Mihrace Yasemin Buğdaycı has lost her life after being brutally hit by a car while cycling in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır.

A German insurance firm has submitted an application to the Turkish judiciary for an arrest warrant against Yasemin Gündoğan, a Turkish national accused of stealing 8.2 million euros from the company.

A baby who was saved from the rubble in the southern province of Hatay 128 hours after the earthquake has been reunited with his mother 54 days later.

Yasemin Begdaş, the mother of the baby whom nurses named "Gizem," was rescued alive, while the baby's father and two brothers lost their lives in the deadly Feb. 6 quakes.

The skeleton of a child found in ongoing archaeological excavations in Tozkoparan Mound, a first-degree archaeological site in the Pertek district of the eastern province of Tunceli, is now preserved in the city's newly opened museum.

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Turkish police detained two suspects on March 29 for their alleged links to the far-left DHKP-C terrorist group, according to a security source.

A minibus carrying schoolchildren tumbled down a 300-meter-high cliff, killing two children and wounding 27 others in the Sason district of the southeastern province of Batman on March 10.

Officials said the children, Yasemin Yıldırım and Esat Yıldırım, were siblings.

The accident happened in the early hours of the day, eyewitnesses said.