Provinces of Turkey

One of modern Turkey?s most celebrated literary figures, Ya?ar Kemal, was laid to rest with a ceremony in Istanbul on March 2.

Kemal, who had been hospitalized since Jan. 14 following respiratory problems, lung infection and heart arrhythmia, died at a hospital in Istanbul on Feb. 28.

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One of modern Turkey?s most celebrated literary figures, Ya?ar Kemal, who had been hospitalized since Jan. 14 following respiratory problems, lung infection and heart arrhythmia, died at a hospital in Istanbul on Feb. 28.

He will be laid to rest today with a ceremony in Istanbul.

A plan that would pave the way for widespread construction on the Aegean island of Bozcaada, one of Turkey's untouched tourism destinations, has been canceled, Environment and Urbanization Minister ?dris Güllüce has said.

The Turks speak of a simple reconnaissance flight over International air space.

Ankara provokes beyond measure – Air chief marshal Ozturk violates the Greek FIR on footage, flying an F-16 himself.

What we know about the daily Turkish violations in the Aegean so far, was the number of Turkish aircraft invade Greek airspace, whether they are armed and the areas that are moving.

A total of 1,150 policemen stand guard at Turkey's newly built 1,150-room presidential palace, which has caused debates with its humongous size and cost.

Some 50 million Turkish Liras were spent on the high-tech security system of the palace, which is frequently praised by President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an, according to sources.

How awful! A psychopath stabs to death a 20-year-old female student because she had resisted his rape attempt. He then chops off her hands and burns her, all while ringing his father and a friend who arrive at the scene to ?help? him. The next day, nearly 80 million Turks are shocked! How shocking one of us committed such a monstrous act!

?Men are entrusted to women.?

?It?s not over until I say it is over.?

The first sentence belongs to Turkey?s President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an. He said it while talking about the brutal murder of Özgecan Aslan.

The second belongs to an ordinary male citizen in Turkey, uttered when his female partner asks to part ways.

In a flea market in Germany, footage has been found of the excavations on Mount Nemrut from 1965, as well as the life of locals in the region.

Researcher ?enol ?ahin Çörekçi, who lives in Germany, said the footage of the Nemrut excavations, which had been found coincidentally by a Turkish collector, was transferred to the digital environment and brought to Turkey.

Aggravated life imprisonment would be the appropriate sentence for criminals such as those who brutally murdered university student Özgecan Aslan in an attempted rape on a public minibus, Turkish EU Minister Volkan Bozk?r said on Feb. 16, amid heated debates over reinstating the death penalty.

The modern Greek state’s continuing and abysmal failure to comprehensively deal with all forms of waste management again reared its “ugly head”, this time, ironically, in the eponymous Greek prefecture of Arcadia – an ancient placement which is associated with pastoralism and harmony with nature.