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Leading business, art and sport representatives from Turkey have launched a civil society movement against recent terror attacks in a bid to boost the public's morale and maintain Turkey and Istanbul's brand value, calling on people to continue living their lives outside.

The Turkish Parliament voted late on Monday night to change the constitution of the country. The proposed changes envisage greater power for the president, announced bTV.

338 out of a total of 480 deputies supported a debate and changes to the basic law.

Two people have been identified in the case of an attack that targeted Hürriyet columnist Ahmet Hakan in 2015, according to a witness account.

Eyewitness Kübra Parmaksızoğlu Coşkun, who is the wife of Hakan's brother, gave her testimony on Jan. 9 at the Istanbul 60th Criminal Court of First Instance, identifying two of the attackers in photographs.

Doğan Holding made the following statement regarding developments this morning:

Awarded every year since 2012 by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV) to promising young Turkish classical musicians, the Aydın Gün Encouragement Award has been granted to 21-year-old marimbist Elman Mecid on its fifth year.

Before writing this piece, I looked back at my archives and checked what I had written in the final days of 2014 and 2015. It turned out that I was not happy with those previous years either. "After Turkey's horrible year," reads the title of my Dec. 30, 2014 column. "After yet another horrible year," reads the title of my Dec. 30, 2015 column. 

Journalists' reflexes override fear. While people run away from bullets, journalists deliberately head toward the place where the bullets are coming from. The same happened on the evening the Russian Ambassador to Ankara Andrey Karlov was attacked.

"The sociologist part of me is still looking for the answer to this question," daily Hürriyet writer Ertuğrul Özkök wrote in an article published on Nov. 21, 2015, three weeks after the Nov. 1 general elections.

Worse, the blatant murder of Russian Ambassador Andrey Karlov was repeatedly displayed with video and photos of the moment splashed on screens. 

Sovereignty belongs to the nation unconditionally; you have the right to demand the death penalty, stated Turkish President Erdogan in front of participants in the opening of the Euro-Asian tunnel under the Bosphorus on Tuesday, reported BGNES.