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Security units in the northwestern province of Edirne have detained 10 suspects trying to sneak into Greece, including Sümeyye Gülen, niece of Fethulah Gülen, the leader of FETÖ.

"Five of the suspects were FETÖ members," the İhlas News Agency reported on June 23.

Israeli archaeologists on June 22 unveiled a rare ancient mosque in the country's south that the antiquities officials said sheds light on the region's transition from Christianity to Islam.

Mahmut Ustaosmanoğlu, a Turkish Sufi sheikh and the leader of the influential İsmailağa Jamia of the Naqshbandi-Khalidiyya Tariqah, died on June 23 at the age of 93.

According to a statement by the tariqah, his funeral service will be held on June 24, in Istanbul's Fatih district where the movement is centered.

Turkish soldiers guard the Silivri Prison in Istanbul, where many journalists and political prisoners held. Photo: EPA-EFE/TOLGA BOZOGLU

The former students at the Air Force Academy started to be released from prison early on Wednesday.

Much work has been done and much effort has been spent on global reconciliation. As the most recent contribution, Türkiye will host the 5th Islamic Solidarity Games to make a fresh start towards world peace. Approximately 3 thousand athletes from 56 different Islamic countries will come together for sports, pose a harmonic stance to show that unity, despite differences, is possible.

It is also stated that one person was arrested on the spot, Reuters reports.
According to some reports, the attack took place in a shopping center in Sweden.
The injured were immediately taken to hospital.
"There are fears that there are more injured," police said.

Rumi was a man weighing between 60 and 63 kilos, with a height of 160 and 165 centimeters, the head of the Rumi Museum in the Central Anatolian province of Konya has said.

Naci Bakırcı highlighted that he has come to this conclusion after examining Rumi's 19 clothes in the museum's inventory and some 18th-century drawings.

In a 500-year-old stone theatre in the Egyptian capital, two young dervishes spin ceaselessly. Slowly, then all at once, they are consumed in a flurry of vivid fabrics.

Born into a lineage of whirling dervishes, Mohamed Adel, 20, takes great pride in the uniquely Egyptian interpretation of the centuries-old ritual known colloquially as "tanoura," or skirt in Arabic.

Rumi Dreams, a new digital project by Refik Anadol, who is known around the world with his artificial intelligence-based artworks, was introduced at Istanbul Atatürk Culture Center (AKM) on June 4. The exhibition will be on display as part of the Beyoğlu Cultural Road Festival through to June 12.

Turkey appointed ambassadors to 25 foreign diplomatic missions, while ambassadors from 23 countries are recalled to their headquarters in Ankara, according to a presidential decision published in the Official Gazette on June 2.