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About 50 people, mostly young and mostly women, are lying on the grass on the Kordon, the coastal front at the center of İzmir, reading their books. It is Oct. 30, İzmir's Book Reading Festival, a spontaneous festival that surfaced on social media. It is strikingly simple - with no activities or sponsors: "Just bring your book, a cushion and a cup of coffee."

Only some 30 percent of Syrian migrant children in Turkey have access to education, the head of Turkey's Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) has announced, underlining the country's aim to enroll all school-age children by 2017. 

Two Turkish clubs made glorious starts to their first-ever Turkish Airlines Euroleague campaigns on Oct. 15, with P?nar Kar??yaka beating 71-62 at home over twice-former winner Barcelona and Darü??afaka Do?u? vanquishing Dinamo Banco di Sardegna Sassari 83-74.

A married man in southern Turkey, who is accused of sexually abusing a series of victims including a 16-year-old girl and a 22-year-old man, has claimed that he was trying to heal his son's vitiligo, a chronic skin disease.

Oktay Enimehmedov, who attacked the honorary lifetime Chairman of DPS Ahmed Dogan in 2013, will seek to enter politics.

The 25-year-old who on January 19 last year pointed a gun at Dogan while he was delivering his resignation speech at a party conference, was firm he had taught the ethnic Turkish party's founder he was "not that intangible".