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The iconic çArşı supporters’ group of Beşiktaş football club has responded to the “coup attempt” accusations, after it was announced that 35 of its members face life imprisonment for their involvement in last year’s Gezi protests.

The iconic çArşı supporters’ group of Beşiktaş football club has responded to the “coup attempt” accusations, after it was announced that 35 of its members face life imprisonment for their involvement in last year’s Gezi protests.

A police officer who shot dead Gezi protester Ethem Sarısülük during last year’s mass protests in Ankara has been sentenced to seven years and nine months in prison Sept. 3.

Famous heart surgeon Bingür Sönmez has suffered an armed attack but does not face a risk of death and will not lose his hand functions despite suffering an armed attack, his doctors have said.

Famous heart surgeon Bingür Sönmez has been injured in a gun attack after assailants opened fire in the eastern province of Kars’ Sarıkamış district.

The police officer accused of threatening Anadolu Agency’s Bilgin Şaşmaz while the latter was covering the unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, was suspended on Aug. 20.

Hours after nearly 50 protesters were arrested on the 11th night of racially charged demonstrations over the killing of an unarmed black teenager by a white police officer in Ferguson, Turkey’s semi-official Anadolu Agency (AA) has reported that its correspondent was “beaten and detained as he tried to cover the protests.”

Any accuracy in reports that Germany has been spying on NATO ally Turkey are “worrying” and would pose “a grave situation” to the relationship between the two nations, the Foreign Ministry said in a strongly-worded statement released Aug. 18.

A beheaded cat has been sent to the mayor’s office in a southeastern town in Turkey to “threaten” the recently-elected politician.

The beheaded cat, which was sent to Şemdinli Mayor Sefer Yılmaz on July 19, was noticed by cleaners who arrived in the office in the morning, Doğan News Agency reported Aug. 15.

Turkish lender İşbank posted a second-quarter net profit of 829.4 million Turkish Liras ($381.35 million), less than Reuters’ forecast of 897 million liras, the company said in a filing to the stock exchange late Aug. 8. The bank’s profits fell by 5.5 percent from 877.5 million liras in the second quarter of 2013.