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Turkish actress Serra Yılmaz, who carried out numerous projects in the field of theater and cinema in Italy for 19 years, has been awarded the prestigious Minerva-Anna Maria Mammoliti Award, which is given to women who have achieved success in different fields in Italy.

Neighbors rescue a one-and-a-half-year-old girl from a house in deplorable conditions in the Central Anatolian province of Konya, as the Family and Social Services Ministry has announced that the child will be taken under protection.

World record holder freediver Fatma Uruk has alleged that she faced mobbing and psychological pressure at the national team camp in the southern province of Antalya.

Algerian energy company Hyproc Shipping's LNG carrier, Lalla Fatma N'Soumer, is due to arrive in Turkey on July 9, according to ship-tracking data on July 7.

With a capacity of 144,888 cubic meters, the vessel left Algeria's port of Arzew on July 2 and is currently en route to its next destination, the Aliaga LNG terminal.

Almost 1.2 million babies were born in Turkey in 2019, according to data made public by the Interior Ministry's General Directorate of Civil Registration and Citizenship.

Of the 1,180,840 babies born, 8,816 male babies were named Yusuf, and 6,857 male babies were named Eymen.
The most popular names given to female babies were Zeynep, with 13,420, followed by Elif, with 8,586.

Turkish Family and Social Affairs Minister Fatma Betül Sayan Kaya stressed late on March 12 the importance of tackling the issue of violence against women in a speech at the U.N. 62nd session of the Commission in New York.

Fatma Şahin, the mayor of the southeastern province of Gaziantep, has cancelled a planned visit to Deventer in the Netherlands after consultations between Turkish and Dutch diplomats about the reservations of The Hague over the timing of the visit.

The Turkish government is working on new a regulation which could eliminate the reduction of sentences over good conduct in cases of sexual abuse and violence against women, Turkey’s Family and Social Policies Minister Fatma Betül Sayan Kaya has said.

People found guilty of violent abuse of women and children will no longer have their sentences reduced based on “good conduct” during trial, Family and Social Policies Minister Fatma Betül Sayan Kaya has stated.

Fatma Şahin, the mayor of the southeastern province of Gaziantep, near the Syrian border, has been awarded Italy’s Anna Maria Mammoliti Minerva Prize on Nov. 30 for her and her municipality’s efforts for refugees in Turkey, becoming the first Turkish woman to win the award.