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The Turkish government has allowed German lawmakers visit to the İncirlik Air Base in the southern province of Adana in October upon their request, Deputy Prime Minister Nurettin Canikli said on Sept. 19.

Turkey on Sept. 19 called on the U.N. to investigate serious human right violations allegedly committed in Syria by the Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), the armed branch of the Syrian Democratic Union Party (PYD). 

The Turkish Justice Ministry has introduced heavier penalties for assaults causing injuries, after a controversial court decision to release an assailant caused an uproar in the country. Those who commit intentional offences against the physical integrity of another person will be able to be arrested with the ministry's draft law, Anadolu Agency reported on Sept. 19. 

The Turkish cabinet has pledged to not decrease the minimum wage due to the increasing cuts in incomes, said a leading official on Sept. 19. 

Turkey raised the minimum wage by 30 percent to 1,300 Turkish Liras ($436) for over 8 million workers at the beginning of the year.

A cabinet revision is reportedly underway in Turkey, where the country's interior minister recently resigned, as at least five or six ministers could be changed with the start of the new legislative year, daily Cumhuriyet reported on Sept. 19.

The Turkish government has prepared to restructure the Development Bank in a bid to enable the country to escape from the middle-income trap and raise its financing to less developed regions, Deputy Prime Mehmet Şimşek told Anadolu Agency on Sept. 18. 

Brussels Municipality has cancelled a planned "Kurdish Culture Week," months after Turkey angrily reacted to an earlier event in the Belgian capital accusing officials of promoting outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) propaganda.

Brussels Mayor Yvan Mayeur announced that the event was cancelled without giving further details. 

A Serbian national currently serving a jail term for fatally beating a 23-year-old Turkish woman who attempted to intervene in street harassment in Germany will be deported to Serbia once his prison term ends in November 2017, German daily Bild has reported. 

The principal of a school in the Ulaş district of the Central Anatolian province of Sivas painted his institution during the summer break "to enhance the school environment," Anadolu Agency reported on Sept. 19.

Some 103 people were killed and hundreds were wounded in traffic accidents that occurred during the nine-day Eid al-Adha holiday in Turkey, the Interior Ministry reported on Sept. 19.