Akkadian language

Muazzez İlmiye Çığ, an internationally acclaimed Turkish scholar on ancient Sumeria, died on Nov. 17 at the age of 110.

Çiğ, born in 1914, passed away in intensive care at a hospital in the southern province of Mersin's Mezitli district.

The Sumerologist Veysel Donbaz speaks languages almost no one speaks today: Sumerian, Hittite, and two dialects of Akkadian, which are Assyrian and Babylonian.

Mayor of Istanbul’s Şişli Municipality Hayri İnönü and his wife, Nazlı İnönü, gave their testimonies to the Istanbul Public Prosecutor on Dec. 30, 2014 concerning claims that they received threats on their lives by former Şişli Mayor Mustafa Sarıgül.

Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ has denied claims that a secretariat will be established in İmralı Island prison for the ongoing negotiations with Abdullah Öcalan, the leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), speaking late on Nov. 25.

Leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) Abdullah Öcalan could make a call for disarmament as of March 2015 if a consensus is reached in the Kurdish peace process with the Turkish state, co-chair of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Selahattin Demirtaş said in an interview Nov. 14.

Around 5,000 people gathered in the northern city of Trabzon over the weekend to denounce the damage to nature caused by energy projects across the Black Sea, which receive the government’s blessing.