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CUPRIJA - Turkish textile maker CCM Moda, which operates in Serbia under the name of Tibet moda, on Friday opened a factory in Cuprija, central Serbia, at a ceremony also attended by PM Aleksandar Vucic.

A system of cameras that can record audio will be installed in Ankara city buses as part of a series of security precautions introduced after multiple suicide bombings in the Turkish capital which have claimed scores of lives in the last six months. The system, which will be installed in nearly 2,000 buses, will be carried out according to a new protocol signed between the Ankara Metropolitan M

Sports and politics have never been two separate issues, especially in a country such as Turkey. After 13 years of one-party rule, the influence of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) on Turkish sports is ever obvious.

Football, the most popular sport in the country - and the world - was of course the focus of the AKP's attention.

A local court in Ankara has ordered Turkish-Armenian journalist Hayko Ba?dat to pay 1,160 Turkish Liras for "insulting" Ankara Mayor Melih Gökçek, saying in its ruling Ba?dat had committed the crime under "provocation" by Gökçek, who made statements that "could be assumed as insulting" to the Armenian community.

Turkish-Armenian journalist Hayko Ba?dat says Ankara Mayor Melih Gökçek, who took Ba?dat to court for using "Armenian" and "disgusting" to describe Gökçek, is in fact "Armenian," according to Gökçek's definition. 

A tweet by a parody account of the mayor of Ankara, who is known for frequently quarreling on social media, has convinced an official to bark in response to his request ? twice. 

Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Ar?nç has said that he decided not to "destroy" Ankara Mayor Melih Gökçek politically, as "it is not necessary anymore."

A U.S. State Department spokesperson who was called a ?stupid blonde? by the mayor of Ankara has voiced surprise that journalists are still interested in the issue.

Bully on him! America’s ambassador to neighboring Turkey on Friday mocked Ankara’s mayor for the latter’s derogatory rant against the US State Department’s spokeswoman last Wednesday, when the Turkish politician cited the Baltimore riots to goad Marie Harf, “come blonde, answer now.”

U.S. Ambassador to Ankara John Bass has waded into the dispute between Ankara Mayor Melih Gökçek and U.S. State Department spokesperson Marie Harf, by posting a photo-shopped blonde haired picture of himself on Instagram.