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Famous Turkish canto singer, theater and cinema actress Nurhan Damcıoğlu has died at the age of 82 in İzmir due to heart failure. She had been receiving treatment for a while.

Votes for the party increased by 15 per cent and the SPP secured three seats in the Serbian parliament. But despite this success, questions about Muamer Zukorlic's death overshadowed its victory in Sandzak.

Muamer Zukorlic's coffin being carried to his grave. Photo: Muamer Zukorlic/Facebook

"As part of the investigation, a statement was taken from Usame Zukorlic [son of Muamer Zukorlic], and then an order was given to exhume the body of the late Muamer Zukorlic, with which the family agreed," the prosecutor's office told Radio Sto Plus on Thursday.

Turkey's Supreme Court of Appeals has objected to a decision by the Interior Ministry, which denied putting into process a request to probe former Turkish interior minister and Istanbul governor Muammer Güler following a 2013 complaint by the family of slain Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink. 

The fifth penal chamber of Turkey's Supreme Court of Appeals ruled on March 23 for an arrest warrant for a public prosecutor who conducted the major Dec. 17, 2013, graft probe and was later dismissed from the profession.

The U.S. Department of Justice announced on March 21 that Iranian origin Turkish businessman Reza Zarrab had been arrested on charges of "engaging in hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of transactions on behalf of the government of Iran and other Iranian entities, which were barred by U.S.

A Turkish teacher has been arrested for alleged sexual abuse of eight male students in the Central Anatolian province of Karaman.

A Customs Ministry report has shown that the import and export activities of several companies belonging to controversial Iranian-Turkish businessman Reza Zarrab were suspicious and should be investigated for possible money laundering, tax evasion and foreign trade manipulations. 

Two prosecutors and a judge who initiated Turkey's biggest corruption investigation will be tried in the Supreme Court of Appeals as an Istanbul court decided on June 15 to send their indictments to the top court.

Turkey's top judicial body has dismissed from the profession four prosecutors and one judge, who had been involved in the country's biggest-ever corruption investigation in December 2013.