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Balışeyh mayor Hilmi Şen in his office.

The central Anatolian province of Kırıkkale's Balışeyh mayor and his driver have been killed in an armed attack, with three other individuals having been injured.

The deadly attack occurred around 10 a.m. on Nov. 4 while  mayor Hilmi Şen and his team were heading to a construction site.

Victims of the 1993 Solingen arson attack, in which five Turks lost their lives in Germany's North Rhine-Westphalia State, have been commemorated with an event attended by German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.

A Turkish family living in Germany's Heiligenhaus town near the city of Düsseldorf has been attacked by a gunman from their neighbors.

Heavy downpours and flurries will leave the country as of July 1, a prominent Turkish meteorologist has said while warning citizens to get ready to bear the brunt of blistering temperatures that will last at least a week.

"As of the weekend, the temperatures will reach life-threatening levels," Orhan Şen told the daily Milliyet on June 29.

The findings unearthed in the Aşağıpınar archeological excavations in the northwestern province of Kırklareli will be passed down to future generations in an open-air time tunnel on the site.

Started in 1993, the studies on the site revealed the traces of the region's oldest farming communities which brought agriculture and village settlement from Anatolia to Thrace.

A village in the Marmara region, some 195 kilometers away from Istanbul, has been enthralling visitors with its natural beauties, offering people an alternative holiday destination.

"Kıyıköy is beautiful in every season," said Veli Şen, the provincial cultural and tourism director of the northwestern province of Kırklareli.

A stage actor made 60 Turkish Liras ($7.8) in just half an hour while taking a stroll in the main street of the southern province of Adana disguised as a beggar for a social experiment on Nov. 21.

"In our social experiment we showed how the beggars pile on the agony," said Hüseyin Şen, a 65-year-old actor.

Two Turkish professional footballers, Başakşehir club's Emre Belözoğlu and Fenerbahçe's Volkan Şen as well as former manager Tayfun Havutçu gave testimonies on May 25 in Istanbul as part of an ongoing probe into the illegal import of luxury cars, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

A painting drawn by Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Şimşek has been sold for 151,000 Turkish Liras ($560,550) at an auction, donating the profits to the Turkish Alzheimer Association.

An investigation has been launched into an imam who took a selfie with a fallen Turkish soldier's coffin in the Çine district of the Aegean province of Aydın. 

Süleyman Şen, the imam of the Mutaflar mosque in Aydın, took the picture and shared it on his social media account, state-run Anadolu Agency reported on Oct. 1.