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Turkey's national flag carrier Turkish Airlines flew 6,000 Malian Muslims to Saudi Arabian cities Jeddah and Madina by direct flights for their Islamic pilgrimage.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Aug. 10 he had authorized higher tariffs on imports from Turkey, imposing a 20 percent duty on aluminum and 50 percent one on steel, as tensions mount between the two NATO allies over Ankara's imprisonment of an evangelical pastor and other diplomatic issues.

Andrey Sova, a Ukrainian tourist lost his life in Turkey's popular holiday destination Alanya, due to punches and kicks he received during a fight with a Russian tourist that broke out over a World Cup game between Russia and Croatia on July 7.

Anatolia's Phoenix 2018 military drill hosted by Turkey began on June 1 with the participation of Azerbaijan, Turkish Cyprus and Saudi Arabia.

Turkey's state-run aid agency has established digital libraries in 142 education centers in Mexico's poor states, which were hit by a powerful earthquake last September. 

Uncertainty over Brexit has halved new investment in the British car industry and Prime Minister Theresa May should urgently change tack and keep the world's fifth largest economy in the EU's customs union, the country's main car lobby group said.

On Friday, June 15, it became known that the President of France Emmanuel Macron wants to make French the main language of the European Union. He believes it is logical in connection with the forthcoming British exit from the EU.

Ivan Isailovic, mayor of the small Serbian town of Krupanj, is off next week to seek investors not in Munich or Paris, but in Istanbul - a sign of Turkey's growing influence across the western Balkans that worries some EU states.

A top EU enlargement official on May 17 lauded Turkey's work to educate over a half-million Syrian children, state-run Anadolu Agency reported. 

The percentage of migrants bound for Greece from Turkey has increased by 17 percent in the past 4-5 weeks, Fabrice Leggeri, Director of Europe's border protection agency Frontex told a German daily on May 1.