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The Dutch electronic giant Philips has repeatedly weakened the encryption standard fof devices that were intended to communicate securely and the watered-down equipment was provided to Turkey, a former company official told Vpro

Turkish arms exports in 2019 grew 36.4% compared to 2018 and exceeded $ 2.7 billion, Daily Sabah newspaper reported.

According to data obtained from the Turkish Exporters Union, exports grew 34.6% to reach $ 2.7 billion last year from $ 2.03 billion in 2018.

11 people were injured in a shootout at a cafe in the Turkish city of Edirne. 11 people who were sitting in the front were injured, the Sabah newspaper reported. They were taken to hospital.

Eyewitnesses say that a car with four people stopped in front of the cafe and fired at it. 

A bank manager in Italy has been sacked after she refused to provide credit to a Turkish company, the Sabah newspaper reported on Feb. 28.

The Turkish Defense Ministry has reopened the file regarding the mysterious death of engineers working at Turkey’s leading defense system producer Aselsan, daily Sabah reported on Feb. 27.

Police teams busted a drug gang in Istanbul’s Sarıyer district after seven months of surveillance, apprehending the ring’s female leader and 15 suspects, the Sabah newspaper paper reported on Feb. 22. 

The government is working on a new regulation that will make it compulsory for 500,000 public transport vehicles to install “black boxes” by the end of 2019, in a move to help to reduce deadly accidents, daily Sabah reported on Feb. 6. 

Foreign Ministry on Friday issued a travel warning for Turkish citizens planning to travel to the U.S., citing increase in terror attacks, Daily Sabah reported.

The ministry also said Turkish travelers to the country may face arbitrary detentions.

A woman turned in to police after using fake credentials to teach for the last 16 years in Istanbul, Sabah newspaper has reported. 

Locals are infuriated at ten tourists who posed naked at Mount Kinabulu in Malaysia on Friday, blaming them for the 5.9 magnitude quake that killed 18 climbers. The photos of the ten hikers spread through social media, infuriating locals.