ANKA news agency

Turkish swimmer Merve Tuncel, who broke the world junior short track record in Istanbul on Dec. 22., has revealed her secret to success in an interview with the daily Hürriyet.

Tuncel came first in 1,500-meter women freestyle in a time of 15:45:29 in the Interclub Junior and Open Aged Short Track Turkey Swimming Championship.

New police chiefs have been assigned to 61 provinces across Turkey including İzmir, Adana and Konya, according to a decree published on Oct. 26 in the Official Gazette. The major reshuffle comes as part of sweeping state of emergency decrees just over three months after the failed July 15 military coup attempt.    

After it was revealed that the bomb that killed 37 people in Ankara was transported to the city on an intercity bus, security measures at the main bus terminal of the city (A?T?) have been widely increased. According to a statement from Ankara Metropolitan Municipality, after the March 13 attack, A?T? was placed under the highest security measures.

Anka, an unmanned aerial vehicle developed by the Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI), carried out its debut missionary flight in the eastern province of Elaz?? on Feb. 5. 

Taking off from Elaz?? Airport, Anka ("Phoenix" in English) ascended to an altitude of 19,000 feet to carry out a four-hour exploration and observation flight. 

Turkish prosecutors in ?zmir and Ankara have been investigating academics who signed a petition denouncing military operations in the southeast on charges based on the most controversial articles of the Turkish Penal Code (TCK).

Former Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Sebahat Tuncel was acquitted of "making terrorism propaganda" charges in two speeches by a court in southeastern Diyarbak?r province on Nov. 17.

A women's rights advocate from Saudi Arabia and an LGBTI rights group in Turkey have been given this year's International Hrant Dink Award - dedicated to the Armenian journalist murdered in 2007 - at a ceremony in Istanbul, the state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

Former head of Turkey's police intelligence, Ramazan Akyürek, sent to prison over the murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink

Former head of Turkey's police intelligence, Ramazan Akyürek, was sent to prison late on Feb. 27 over the murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, according to police sources.
      

A group of Islamists at Ankara University have clashed with another group of students who were commemorating both the victims of the Charlie Hebdo attack and the Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, who was killed eight years ago.

A police chief accused of negligence in the murder of Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink in 2007 was arrested after turning himself into the authorities in Ankara on Jan. 19.

Police chief Ercan Demir was arrested on charges of "voluntary manslaughter with reckless behavior."