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Photographer Onur Albayrak (R)

Turkish historian Fuat Sezgin died on June 30 at the age of 95.

A district municipality in western Istanbul has started taking down Arabic shop signs, citing a new regulation stipulating that shop signs must include at least 75 percent Turkish words, Demirören News Agency reported on June 29. 

A top religious official of a northern Turkish province has stirred outcry on social media by claiming a woman "should not reveal her body to another woman while swimming."

Sadi Güven

Greek-Turkish relations have been seriously impacted by the case of the eight Turkish servicemen who sought asylum in Greece after the coup attempt in Turkey in the summer of 2016, and also by that of the two Greek soldiers arrested by Turkish authorities in early March who are still being held in custody without charges and with the obvious objective of applying pressure on Greece.

A three-year-old Turkish boy has emerged unscathed after his mother's car ran over him in an incident that ended with what some Turkish social media described as a "miraculous escape."

Central Bank Governor Murat Çetinkaya

Semih Yalçın

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s meeting with Germany’s two top footballers was an “ordinary” one, Turkish Football Federation (TFF) chair Yıldırım Demirören has said, reacting to German Football Federation (DFB) president Reinhard Grindel’s criticism about the meeting.