Istanbul Atatürk Airport

Aid, offers of assistance and expressions of solidarity continued to pour in on Wednesday from around the world as Greece struggles to cope with one of its most deadly natural disasters.

Cyprus offered 10 million euros in aid and also sent 64 first responders to the region early on Tuesday morning.

Police at Istanbul's Ataturk Airport detained a German national trying to smuggle cocaine in capsules hidden in his stomach and intestine, a police source said on July 23.

Judging him a flight risk, a British court on July 19 confiscated the passport of a fugitive Turkish businessman wanted for suspected involvement in the July 2016 defeated coup in Turkey.

Drowning incidents occur mostly during the months of June, July and August in Turkey, with 50 people, including 29 children, already having drowned between June 1 and July 4, according to a report provided by the state-run Anadolu Agency.

A Turkish court has approved an indictment of 14 suspects in the high-profile 2015 murder of a prosecutor in Istanbul, state-run Anadolu Agency reported on June 29, citing a judicial source.

The last four Turkish servicemen of the eight who fled to Greece after the coup attempt in Turkey in 2016 left the police station at the Olympic Village where they were being held on Monday, as the 18 months of maximum detention had expired.

All eight men will now reside at an undisclosed location, under heavy police protection.

Turkey's foreign ministry on Thursday accused Greece of protecting coup plotters following an irrevocable decision by the Council of State to grant asylum to one of the eight Turkish soldiers who sought refuge in the country after the 2016 failed coup in Turkey.

A Turkish court on May 21 sentenced 104 people to life in prison for involvement in a failed military coup in 2016, in one of the heaviest penalties given since the attempt.

The German Foreign Ministry said on April 18 that it is "waiting to learn" why one of its nationals was detained in Istanbul, in the latest such incident to strain relations between the two countries.

Some 802 Dong Tao (dragon) chicken eggs were seized in an operation at Istanbul's International Atatürk Airport on April 12.