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Closing statements are continuing this week in the Hague trial of former KLA commander Salih Mustafa.

Famous Turkish actor Erkan Kolçak Köstengil has become a professional goalkeeper in the Netherlands after leaving Turkey as the well-known TV series, Çukur (The Hole), in which he acted, ended.

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"It was my childhood dream to be a goalkeeper," Köstengil said.

Çukur, which first aired on Oct. 23, 2017, ended on June 7 after 131 episodes in four seasons.

Turkish origin Judge Salih Murat was elected as the President of the Constitutional Court in North Macedonia on Oct. 31.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (L) meets with Iraqi President Barham Salih, in Baghdad on Jan. 9.

Iraqi President Barham Salih will pay his first official visit to Turkey on Dec. 3 following his election early October.

On the final leg of his journey from Iraq to Europe, Hawye Rasool Saleh paid 400 euros ($457) borrowed from his best friend to a smuggler who would help him across the cease-fire line of ethnically split Cyprus.

The transaction was sealed in anonymity.

'Season of Migration to the North' by Tayeb Salih, translated by Denys Johnson-Davies (New York Review Books, 139 pages, $14)

"It was, gentlemen, after a long absence - seven years to be exact, during which time I was studying in Europe - that I returned to my people."

A man who once fought as a sniper for the Free Syrian Army (FSA) was killed in southern Turkey four months ago by the brother of one his victims, whom he ran into coincidentally while trying to flee to Germany, Turkish authorities have revealed.