Istanbul

The hearing of a total of 19 soldiers who raided daily Hürriyet, the Hürriyet Daily News, CNN Türk and Kanal D at the Doğan Media Center in the Bağcılar district of Istanbul on the night of last year's failed coup attempt will begin on July 17, one year after the attempted takeover.

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has said he believes the "justice march" from Ankara to Istanbul, which he has been walking for 22 days so far, will be completed peacefully with a mass rally in Istanbul's Maltepe district on July 9. 

The Youth and Sports Ministry has used a picture of U.S. gold medalist swimmer Dana Vollmer in one of its posters but digitally changed the U.S. flag on her cap with a Turkish one, daily Sözcü reported on July 6.

The "justice march" launched by main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu on June 15 is planned to end on July 9 with a massive rally to be held in the Maltepe district of Istanbul, attended by around one million people. 

Some 173 women were killed by men in the first five months of 2017, according to a report released by a women's rights activist organization on June 5.

The report from women's rights organization "We Will Stop Femicide" stated that 39 women were killed in May, more than any other month.

The organization also stated that 38 children and 17 women were sexually abused in May.

Local residents staged demonstrations against thermal power plant projects planned to be constructed in the Silivri district of Istanbul province and the Çerközköy district of Tekirdağ, Doğan News Agency has reported.

A "healthy" team at the start of the Euroleague playoffs was vital to Fenerbahçe's Euroleague title, coach Zeljko Obradovic has said.

"Before the start of the playoffs, we finally had healthy players. We started working the way we like to do," Obradovic said in an interview with state-run Anadolu Agency.

A photo that has gone viral on social media nowadays is one that is comparing the current state of Istanbul's İstiklal Street and how it used to look 10 years ago. A decade ago, the street was paved with cobble stones; there were trees on both sides of the street, shops were full, the tram was functioning; it was crowded and fun. Its situation today is dreadful. 

Turkey's leading brewer Anadolu Efes has said it is suspending its brewing operations at a factory in central Istanbul and transferring these operations to other facilities, after the factory was "trapped in the city center" with rapidly expanding urbanization. 

A physically impaired man who climbed up the stairs on his hands to vote in the referendum due to an elevator malfunction at a school used as a polling station has said he will file complaints against the school administration.