Jarabulus offensive

Turkish director Reha Erdem received the Special Jury Prize at the Venice International Film Festival, organizers announced on Sept. 10.

Turkish police detained dozens of people and used water cannon on Sept. 9 to disperse several hundred teachers demonstrating against their suspension from classrooms in the eastern province of Diyarbakır, union sources said and TV footage showed. 

Turkey's efforts to create a safe zone in Syria will continue until the Turkish border is safe and all threats to the country have been removed, Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım said on Sept. 9, Reuters reported. 

Turkey's Nazmiye Muratlı broke the world and Paralympic record on Sept. 8 on her way to gold in the women's up to 41kg powerlifting event at the 2016 Paralympics Games in Rio De Janeiro.

Pilot Maj. Esra Özatay has been appointed to the commander of the "Türk Yıldızları" (Turkish Stars) air acrobatics team's 134th Squadron, becoming the first female military officer to hold such post in the history of the Turkish Air Force.

A rocket projectile fired from an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)-controlled region in Syria hit an olive orchard in the border province of Kilis early on Sept. 9, Doğan News Agency has reported.

There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage in the attack.

The number of foreign fighters deported by Turkey since 2011 has increased to 3,719, senior Turkish officials have said, noting that 51,976 terror suspects have been banned from entering the country in the last five years.

Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) militants opened fire on a Turkish border post on Sept. 7 and Turkish soldiers returned fire, Turkish military officials in the region said on Sept. 8. 

A high-level political dialogue mechanism between Turkey and the European Union will convene in Ankara on Sept. 9 to overview the state of accession talks and the migrant deal, in the first such ministerial meeting since Turkey's failed coup attempt on July 15. 

Turkish Airlines (THY) has invited foreign journalists to Istanbul in order to tell them about the July 15 failed coup attempt, believed to have been masterminded by the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ).

THY chair İlker Aycı talked about the events that unfolded on the night of the failed seizure of power to a total of 120 journalists from 18 countries.