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Audio recording cameras to be installed in buses in Ankara

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

New stadiums testify to the death of Turkish football

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.

Armenian-origin columnist fined for 'insulting' Ankara mayor

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.

US envoy in Turkey …dyes hair to protest Ankara’s mayor’s anti-American rant

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.”

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