Boz

An unexpected statement from the Turkish side last May supporting Greece's bid for the return of the Parthenon Sculptures pointed the way forward. Zeynep Boz, the head of the Turkish Culture Ministry's department for combating antiquities theft, confirmed that there is no such document as the firman cited by the British side to claim possession of the marble fragments taken by Lord Elgin.

Her statement at last May's UNESCO intergovernmental committee caused a stir in Greece and abroad. It was no small thing for a representative of Turkey to say that the sultan's firman invoked by Britain to justify Lord Elgin's removal of the Parthenon Sculptures and their subsequent purchase by the British government has not been found in Ottoman archives.

A man who killed a 28-year-old woman in Istanbul's Ataşehir district with a Samurai sword has confessed in his statement to the police that he targeted the woman on the street arbitrarily because he thought she was "defenseless."

In yet another case of femicide, a woman has been brutally murdered in broad daylight with a samurai sword while she was walking on a street in Istanbul.

Başak Cengiz, a 28-year-old woman, was attacked by Can Göktuğ Boz out of nowhere with a samurai sword while she was walking on a street of a housing estate where she resided in Istanbul's Ataşehir district late on Nov. 9.

At least seven people were killed and nine others were injured after a tractor carrying nut workers overturned in the Hendek district of the northwestern province of Sakarya on Aug. 18.

The cause of the accident in the Köseköy neighborhood at around 7:25 a.m. was not immediately known.