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Two suspects who were allegedly involved in wiretapping then-prime minister President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an and were caught in Romania in February denied all claims against them at a hearing in Ankara on May 4. 

A headmaster and his partner have been charged for engaging in a homosexual act in public near his school in a conservative Turkish town.

Turks still favor a timeless investment strategy: Buy gold and hide it somewhere safe, usually under a pillow or under the mattress.

"I don't understand modern investments like stocks and forex. Gold is my family's traditional investment, as my mother always encouraged me to buy gold for savings," says 36-year-old Selda Kırpınar in Ankara, who stores away her gold at home.

The top administrative court of Turkey has approved a March decision by the governor’s office in the eastern province of Erzurum, which revoked a special passport granted to U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen more than two decades ago.

The elevators in the Standards Institute (TSE) building in the eastern province of Erzurum have been sealed by municipality officials for being unsafe.

urkey is planning to build 80 mosques inside university campuses across the country, Religious Affairs Directorate (Diyanet) head Mehmet Görmez has announced.

A four year old girl who hid from his two year elder brother while playing, has lost her life inside a washing machine in the Oltu town of the eastern province of Erzurum.

Ä°rem Ö., a four year old girl who hid from his two year elder brother while playing, has lost her life inside a washing machine in the Oltu town of the eastern province of Erzurum. 

An inventor in an eastern Turkish village has managed to patent a robot that he designed to keep bears away from farms and gardens.

“My hand-made robot shocks bears or boars with 25,000 volts of electricity when it senses they are approaching,” 46-year-old Mustafa Karasungur told Doğan News Agency on Aug. 10 in his hometown, the village of Gölbaşı in Erzurum province.

A real-time Internet livestock auction in the eastern Turkish province of Erzurum will be founded to increase opportunities for trade in livestock and animal products such as meat, milk, wool and leather.

A local court in the eastern province of Erzurum has reduced the sentence of a husband who attacked his wife after seeing her with another man, arguing that her wearing leggings and sitting “slightly leaning to one side” could be described as “provocative” and an extenuating circumstance.