Fatima

Turkish Family Minister Fatma Betül Sayan Kaya has called on the world to play its part in helping Syrian children.

Turkish authorities will implement necessary measures to prevent child marriages via abduction after reports emerged that underage girls were being kidnapped and forced into marriage in exchange for payments to their families in two İzmir villages, Turkish Family and Social Policies Minister Fatma Betül Sayan Kaya has said.

Isis officials in Mosul introduced a metal instrument to punish women whose clothes they claim do not completely conceal their body, as the Independent reveals.

People in Mosul call it “the Biter” or “Clipper”, which causes agonising pain to the victim by clipping off pieces of flesh, as a former school director, who fled from the city earlier this month, stated.

Decorated Turkish cinema director Memduh Ün has died at a hospital in Bodrum following a long period of treatment. He was 95. 

Ün, who lived with his partner, well-known actress Fatma Girik, in the Torba neighborhood, was taken to Ac?badem Hospital last year on Nov. 11 for treatment and had remained in the intensive care unit since then.  

The mayor of a southern Turkish province has denied claims that President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an canceled American journalist Steven Kinzer?s honorary citizenship over a recent critical article, while admitting that she herself made the decision for the same reason.

An Ottoman medal, which was once presented by a sultan to the wife of a British ambassador in Turkey, will be auctioned in Istanbul soon, according to semi-official Anadolu Agency.