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Turkish women's national volleyball team will play Brazil on Aug. 10 for a chance to grab the bronze medal at the Paris Olympics after losing in straight sets to Italy in the semifinals.

The Italians were dominant against Türkiye, producing a 25-22, 25-19, 25-22 victory at the South Paris Arena on Aug. 8 night.

A Muslim religious leader's instruction to women to dutifully accept a husband's "invitation to bed" to procreate has sparked outrage among many Turkish Cypriots, who saw the remarks as an imported encroachment of fundamentalist Islam on their secular community.

BASE, an exhibition event featuring works by new graduates of fine arts faculties, will bring together newly graduated young artists from all over Turkey with art lovers under the same roof in Istanbul.

The fifth edition of BASE will be organized at Istanbul's Tophane-i Amire between Sept. 29 Sept. and Oct. 3.

Derya Yıldırım (L) was charged with killing Can Görkem Bayraktar.

World free diving female champion Derya Can has broken a Guinness World Record with a 120-meter horizontal apnea dive in an ice-covered lake. 

Holding her breath under the 35-centimeter ice-coated Weissensee lake in Austria, Can managed to swim 120 meters in 1 minute 47 seconds. 

An imprisoned man has endured two days of Kafkaesque adversity to attend the funeral of his father at an Alevi worshipping house in the western province of Bal?kesir. The procedural struggle occurred because cemevis are not officially recognized in Turkish law as places of worship.