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The 22nd Golden Boll Film Festival, which will be held between Sept. 14 and 22 in the southern province of Adana, will have 15 films in contention for the main National Feature Film Competition. 

Fifty-eight films had been submitted for nomination for the prize, the winner of which will receive 350,000 Turkish Liras. 

A senior U.S. military officer has said the use of ?ncirlik base in Turkey for the U.S.-led coalition?s air operations against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in northern Syria and Iraq is ?already proving to have a great multiplier effect on the battlefield.?

Turkish police have raided a political party headquarters in southern Turkey, detaining seven people, including the party's provincial head, for gambling.

The Republican People?s Party (CHP) is discussing whether to take action against President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an on charges of ?bribery and forgery? in relation to the huge now-dropped Dec. 17 and 25, 2013 corruption cases, which embroiled four former ministers and their relatives.

Turkish fighter jets hit outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) bases on the border with Iraq late Aug. 19 after eight soldiers were killed in a blast in the southeastern province of Siirt.

F-16 jets which took off from the Diyarbak?r 8th Main Jet Base hit PKK bases in the town of Karaçal? on the border with Iraq for around an hour late Aug. 19.

The 22nd International Golden Boll Film Festival, which will be held from Sept. 14 to 20 in the southern province of Adana, will present this year's honorary awards to producer Türker ?nano?lu as well as veteran actress Ay?en Gruda and actor Aytaç Arman. 

No decision has yet been taken on replacing German Patriot anti-missile systems and NATO is continuing consultations on the issue after Germany decided to pull out its Patriot batteries in Turkey, a Turkish diplomat has told the Hürriyet Daily News.  

Amid a heavy agenda of coalition talks and terror attacks, Turkish social media users have also been debating in the past few days the claims by a 95-year-old yogi who says he has found the secret to a long, active sex life.

Turkey conducted a new series of airstrikes overnight, hitting 17 suspected Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) targets in the southeastern part of the country on the border with Iran and Iraq.

According to a statement of the Turkish General Staff, the airstrikes were aimed at "terrorist targets" around the Buzul mountain and Ikiyaka region in Hakkari province.

Three Russian members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have been arrested in the southern province of Adana.

"Three foreign nationals believed to be ISIL members have been arrested by the Adana Provincial Gendarmerie Command in Adana's Yumurtal?k district," the Turkish General Staff said in a written statement on Aug 9.