Tekin

A Turkish prosecutor has filed a summary of proceedings against Republican People's Party (CHP) Secretary-General Gürsel Tekin for insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an during a Jan. 15 press briefing in which he strongly criticized the detentions of academics who signed a petition calling for an end to military operations in southeast Turkey. 

Turkey's first search engine in the Kurdish language has gone online after five years of technical work, research and development.

The search engine, called "Sekretin" - meaning success in Kurdish - will also have a video-sharing website in the next few months, its manager Serdar Anu?tekin told the state-run Anadolu Agency in the southeastern province of Diyarbak?r on Nov. 5.     

A Republican People?s Party (CHP) deputy has questioned recently passed amendments in Turkey?s press card regulations, claiming that they will further ?increase censorship? in the country.

Turkish police raided multiple locations on May 22 in at least 19 provinces, while carrying out a ?parallel structure? investigation, detaining as many as 20 people, including several businessmen and a former police chief. Raids have mostly been centered in Konya, a central Anatolian province.

Turkey?s Energy Minister Taner Y?ld?z responded to claims by CHP Secretary General Gürsel Tekin on impending military intervention in Syria by urging Tekin to reexamine his sources. 

?My advice to Gürsel Tekin is to either reveal his source or reexamine it,? Y?ld?z said. 

It was the first time I heard ever such a thing. I was appalled. The person talking about it was Ahmet Güne?tekin, someone I know very well; someone whose word I trust; someone who Ya?ar Kemal called his ?son.? I would not have believed it otherwise. 

Police have detained a Turkish national in the central Finnish town of Laukaa, as part of an investigation into the murder of three Turks in a local restaurant.

A Turkish-Finnish couple who owned a pizza restaurant in Laukaa, Aziz and Asiye ?ekersöz, as well as a waitress working there, Kübra Turan, were shot dead on March 1, local police announced.

A Greek court ruled prison terms for four men - two Greek citizens and two Turkish citizens of Kurdish origin - who were arrested on July 2013 by the coastguard off Chios, for transferring a large amount of weapons and explosives to Turkey.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has long encouraged families to have at least three children, but one father in Hatay has gone the extra mile, siring 32 children from four wives.

Thirty-two, however, is apparently not enough for Halit Tekin, who has ambitions to over-fulfill his child quota by fathering a total of 50 kids.

Harvard and Koç University’s summer school hosts local and foreign students for Ottoman Turkish classes every year on Turkey’s Cunda Island, off the Aegean coast Since 1997, an institute on Ayvalık’s Cunda Island affiliated with Harvard University has drawn great interest from foreigners and locals who want to learn Ottoman Turkish during the summer.