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A booklet giving sex advice to young couples, distributed by the local municipality in the western Turkish province of Kütahya, has drawn condemnation from both the government and the opposition.

Istanbul?s historic peninsula has come under renewed threat after the Fatih District Municipality issued a ruling to give itself full authorization in executions of construction projects across broad swathes of the peninsula.

A tram driver in a central Turkish city has hit a group of animal rights activists, injuring one.

Around 60 activists from Turkey's Protection of Animals Association and Anarchist Initiative organized a demonstration in Eski?ehir on June 14. When the group started to march on the road reserved for the tram, the driver stopped and honked at the group.

Security forces have seized two sets of bombing equipment and explosives in the southeastern province of ?anl?urfa's Suruç district across from Kobane in the past two days following a Feb. 13 bomb attack, daily Milliyet quoted sources as saying on Feb. 20.

Security teams have intensified their anti-terror searches after the bombing close to a police checkpoint.