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Tajik opposition leader Umarali Kuvatov was killed in a gun attack in Istanbul late on March 5.

Kuvatov, the leader of Group 24, an opposition movement in Tajikistan, was reportedly walking on the street in the Fatih district after having dinner at his friend's house when an unknown assailant shot him in the head.

Citigroup has sold its nearly 10 percent stake in Turkey?s Akbank for $1.2 billion, the U.S. lender said on March 5, its latest disposal of overseas assets to cut costs and boost profits.

New York-based Citi has been paring back in international markets in recent years, pulling out of retail banking inTurkey as well as long-established businesses such as Japan.

A high-ranking Turkish police chief has been detained in Ankara as part of the investigation into the 2007 murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink.

Turkish authorities on Feb. 25 launched a nationwide sweep targeting suspects accused of wiretapping top officials including President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an, state media said.
      
The chief prosecutor's office in the capital Ankara issued arrest warrants for 54 people of whom 40 have been arrested so far, the official Anadolu News Agency reported.
      

A Turkish criminal court on Feb. 24 issued another arrest warrant for the U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen as a part of the probe into the ?parallel state,? in which 28 suspects have been arrested so far. The court also issued an arrest warrant for Emre Uslu, a columnist and a former police official.

A Turkish criminal court on Feb. 24 issued another arrest warrant for the U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen and columnist Emre Uslu, as a part of the probe into the ?parallel state,? in which 28 suspects have been arrested so far.

A Turkish prosecutor has summoned a prominent journalist over his remarks in an interview he recently conducted.

Phones used by top government officials are to be changed by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜB?TAK) after top officials suffered illegal wiretapping, Science, Industry and Technology Minister Fikri I??k stated on Feb. 18.

A Turkish prosecutor has described the ?parallel structure? led by U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen as an ?armed terror organization,? citing the Balyoz (Sledgehammer) case, in which allegedly Gülenist police and judiciary members had cracked down on army officers with the same accusation.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has thrown a new curveball by explicitly expressing his opposition to the resignation of Hakan Fidan, the head of the National Intelligence Organization (M?T), from his post to run for parliament.