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Turkey's Coast Guard has reported an eleven-fold year-on-year increase in the number of undocumented migrants discovered in the country's Aegean region.

Almost 8,500 refugees were found in Turkish Coast Guard operations in February 2016, 11 times more than the same month in 2015, officials told the state-run Anadolu Agency on March 1.

A Russian warship has traversed Turkey's Bosphorus en route to the Black Sea amid tight security measures. The warship was accompanied by two boats and a ship from the Turkish Coast Guard in addition to a police helicopter. 

If the question was asked three weeks ago, the answer you might get from foreign observers of the investment environment in Turkey would be related to the possibility of a unilateral Turkish military operation into Syria.

Qatar's balance of trade fell almost 60 percent in the year to January, official figures released on Feb. 28 showed, as the Gulf country grapples with a slump in global energy prices.

Turkey's flagship carrier, Turkish Airlines, has announced plans to begin operating flights to Bogota and Panama City beginning May 4.        

Explosives and ammunition were found close to an armed police checkpoint on a road connecting the Turkish capital of Ankara to the coastal city of Samsun, the local governor's office said on Feb. 25.

Saudi warplanes sent to support the U.S.-led anti-Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) coalition have been scheduled to arrive at ?ncirlik Air Base in Turkey's southeastern province of Adana on Feb. 26, private broadcaster CNN Türk has reported.

The report said advance guards had already arrived at the base as of Feb. 25.

A commercial court in Istanbul has fined 11 people a total of some 25.6 billion Turkish Liras for "looting the accounts of ?mar Bank," which had its banking license canceled by Turkey's Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency (BDDK) in 2003.

One soldier was killed on Feb. 24 in the Sur district of southeastern province of Diyarbak?r during clashes with outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants, the Turkish General Staff has announced, in addition to another soldier who has succumbed to his injuries 12 days after an attack in the same district.

Turkish armed forces have carried out military exercise in multiple cities and in Turkish Cyprus, while they joined forces with the police in a counter terrorism exercise held in the eastern province of Van amid ongoing clashes in the country's southeast.