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The Turkish runoff elections and the expected, yet not triumphant, win of Recep Tayyip Erdogan frame the state's future for the next several decades, bypassing the normative re-elected president's five-year electoral term.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan hopes to extend his rule into a third decade in a May 14 election but faces his toughest test yet at the ballot box, with his popularity hit by a cost-of-living crisis driven by runaway inflation.

The gate of an ancient castle used by several civilizations over thousands of years has been unearthed in central Turkey, according to a senior academic involved in the dig.

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Turkey’s top religious body, the Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet), has appointed Huriye Martı, a professor at Necmettin Erbakan University, to the highest office in the directorate ever held by a woman.

Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has announced new ambassadorial appointments by his country. Former Ankara Representative in Sofia Suleyman Gokce will go to Guatemala. Turkey's ambassador to Bulgaria will be Hassan Ulusoy, Hurriyet Daily News reported.

At an inauguration ceremony for a new center today, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated that he is amenable to reinstituting the death penalty.
“If the people of Turkey want and the country’s parliament decides to reinstate the death penalty, I am ready to approve this decision,” he said.

Daily Cumhuriyet has listed the unforgettable personalities of comedy star Levent K?rca, the beloved actor we lost earlier this week. 

I looked at the list; everybody is there: There is Atatürk. There is Süleyman Demirel, Bülent Ecevit. Even Necmettin Erbakan. There is also Bill Clinton. He even impersonated a despot like Ghaddafi. 

Have you read former Science, Industry and Technology Minister Nihat Ergün's new book? 

A member of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party), Ergün's book titled "Ad?m Ad?m Siyaset" (Step by Step Politics) is a very important book for understanding from where to where the Islamist movement has come and what its problems are.

A retired colonel, who was being sought in the trial of the military intervention of Feb. 28, 1997, often described as a ?post-modern coup,? has been found dead in Bucharest.

Retired Colonel Eser ?ahan was found dead on a bank in the Drumul Taberei neighborhood of the Romanian capital, after he was reported to have left his house for a walk.

Turkey’s 11th President Abdullah Gül has told his close circle that he is ready to testify in an old corruption case from the 1990s in the upcoming weeks, Hürriyet columnist Taha Akyol reported on Aug. 30.

Citing a similar case of former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Gül reportedly said the issue was “about the rule of law.”