CNN Türk

An explosion has occurred in front of the entrance Erciyes University in Turkey's central province of Kayseri early on Dec. 17.

There were wounded people according to initial reports, Turkish broadcaster CNN Türk has reported.

Ambulances were sent to the area after the explosion.

CNN Türk, its Ankara representative Hande Fırat, and daily Hürriyet columnist Abdulkadir Selvi have received the "Information and Democracy Award" for their critical role in countering the July 15 coup attempt, at the 33rd National Informatics Congress held by the Turkish Informatics Society (TBD) and launched on Dec. 8 by Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım. 

Democracy is our lifeblood and whatever the conditions are, we will stand by it, said Doğan Holding Honorary Chairman Aydın Doğan in an associations' federation meeting he attended on Nov. 20 in his hometown Gümüşhane in the northern Black Sea region. 

Newly-surfaced security camera footage shows Özgecan Aslan, who was brutally slain on Feb. 11, and her confessed killers in a southern Turkish city soon before her murder, CNN Türk television reported March 17.

The “Constitution professor” of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) Burhan Kuzu, during the Cüneyt Özdemir show at CNN Turk, said the person killed during the Kobane protests, Yasin Börü, had been tortured, adding, “These are unacceptable things.