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Turkish authorities have detained 10 suspects in raids in northwestern Turkey as part of a probe into potential Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) members, police have said.

The 10 suspects were taken into custody after Turkish police carried out parallel raids at multiple addresses in the northwestern province of Sakarya on the night of March 1.

Four days after a video showing a car weaving manically in and out of Istanbul traffic led to outrage on social media, the Turkish police have detained a suspect.

Turkey and Russia are finding a variety of ways to boost their trade and economic relations, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said ahead of a visit to Turkey on Dec. 1 for the fifth session of the High-Level Russian-Turkish Cooperation Council.

Seven students were injured when an elevator at a high school building fell to the ground from the third floor due to an unknown technical failure in the western province of Sakarya on Nov. 18.

The accident happened at a newly-built building of a religious vocational high school in the Geyve district of Sakarya, which opened earlier this year.

The high-speed railway (YHT) service between Kocaeli and Ankara was canceled after a crane and a container fell onto the railway line late Aug. 7.

Due to strong winds, a crane – approximately weighing 200 tons – fell onto the railway line used by the YHT service in the Körfez district of Kocaeli, resulting in the suspension of the YHT service at 5:00 p.m. on Aug. 7.

Locals in the northwestern province of Sakarya have claimed that an unidentified person dressed in white and who looks like a “ghoul” has been knocking on their doors and windows for the past 18 months with the aim of scaring them.

Turkish authorities have announced that the smell recently coming from Istanbul’s water network is caused by hot weather and seaweed, while some experts have claimed the change in the quality of water is carcinogenic.

A 19-year-old man has killed his fiancée after learning that she was not a virgin during a trip to the western province of Sakarya.

The murderer, identified only as K.A., went to the district Police Department in Istanbul’s Beylikdüzü district on July 8 to confess that he had murdered his fiancée, N.T., and buried her in a Sakarya forest on July 6.

A train station built as part of the construction works for the high-speed railway partially collapsed near Arifiye in the western province of Sakarya on May 29.

Six workers were injured, including three in a serious condition, state-run Anadolu Agency reported. The initial reports claiming that some workers were trapped under the rubble were soon refuted.

A train station built as part of the construction works for the high-speed railway partially collapsed near Arifiye in the western province of Sakarya on May 29.

At least five workers were injured, including one in a serious condition, after being trapped under the rubble, state-run Anadolu Agency reported.