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Turkish athletes have bagged the 11th medal on the seventh day of the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games, surpassing the 10 medal-record in the 2016 Rio Games.

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Turkish Paralympic shooter Aysegül Pehlivanlar won a silver medal on Aug. 31 in the P2 women's 10m Air Pistol event. She won with a total of 234.5 points in the final.

Turkey's Nihat Türkmenoğlu and Bahattin Hekimoğlu won a silver and bronze medal in archery at the 2020 Paralympic Games on Aug. 30.

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Türkmenoğlu secured silver after a narrow loss to the Czech Republic's David Drahoninsky in the gold medal clash of the men's individual W1 class.

The local health authority of the southern province of Antalya has launched an investigation after allegations of workplace bullying into a chief physician at a state hospital who reportedly punished two nurses and made them write "I am a fool" hundreds of times.

As the novel coronavirus continues to take its toll on lives and forces many countries to impose quarantines, many major events, such as the Venice Biennale and Coachella, have been postponed. 

No big event in Turkey has been postponed yet, as it has one coronavirus-positive case confirmed so far.   

This combined picture shows slain teacher Ayşegül Çelik (L) and the traffic sign mentioned by National Education Minister Ziya Selçuk in a tweet on July 28.

A painting drawn by Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Şimşek has been sold for 151,000 Turkish Liras ($560,550) at an auction, donating the profits to the Turkish Alzheimer Association.

A prosecutor has demanded up to nine years in jail for a man who attacked and injured a 23-year-old woman on a public bus in Istanbul for wearing shorts.

Thousands of female bikers from 28 cities in Turkey and Turkish Cyprus got behind the handle bars on Sept. 24 for the annual Chic Women's Bicycle Tour in a peaceful demonstration that combined feminism and green transport.

Turks donned shorts and gathered in central Istanbul to condemn the assault of a young nurse who was attacked on a public bus this month for wearing shorts.