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Hundreds of people held an outdoor iftar dinner, "Yeryüzü ?ftar?," for a third time on Istanbul's ?stiklal Avenue on June 18, for the first day of Ramadan. Iftar is a kind of religious supper eaten after fasting each day during Ramadan, the Islamic holy month.

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Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Ar?nç was silent about claims that former President Abdullah Gül had convinced him not to resign at the time of a rift between then-Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo?an over mixed-gender student housing. 

A French student who was deported after being detained by the police during Istanbul's Gezi Park protests on June 11, 2013, has won 10,000 Turkish Liras in compensation for being unlawfully deprived of her freedom during her detention.

'We have created awareness about election security.

Just when we had carved the month of June into our collective conscience as the month that sparked the biggest mass protests Turkey had ever seen, June has boosted its historical importance with the recent elections.

Istanbul?s former governor Hüseyin Avni Mutlu was fined 10,000 Turkish Liras for accusing a then-17-year-old Dilan Alp of being a member of ?marginal groups? during the May Day protests of 2013, during which she was hit in the head by a tear gas canister shot by the police.

A police officer that gained notoriety for spraying pepper spray at peaceful protesters, including an academic who became known as the ?woman in red? during the outset of the Gezi Park uprising in 2013, has been sentenced to 20 months in jail and ordered to plant 600 trees.

Özgür Mumcu, a journalist for Turkish daily newspaper Cumhuriyet, faces up to four years eight months in prison for ?defaming? President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an in an opinion piece published on March 18.

The op-ed penned by Mumcu had the title ?Tyrant and a coward,? and criticized Erdo?an?s complaint against Hatice Cömert, the mother of Gezi protest victim Abdullah Cömert. 

It is a photo that has come to symbolize the spirit of the Gezi protests that rocked Turkey at the beginning of June 2013. A man holding a banner from the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP), a forerunner of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) in the search for Kurdish rights, leads what appears to be a woman holding an Atatürk flag away from a police attack in Taksim.

If you are among those who are depressed with whatever is going around you and if you wonder how you will overcome all of it, do not feel too down. Things that you never expect come true in this life. Recently, an official at the European Commission told me an anecdote. When the relations between the United States and Cuba started to thaw, the EU sent a delegation to Cuba.