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Turkish fruit and vegetable producers have staged a protest to demand the removal of obstacles to the export of tomatoes, organizing a funeral on Nov. 28 in the southern province of Antalya, Doğan News Agency has reported.

He is showing the performance of a political personality that those who underestimated him by labelling him "a technocrat" cannot ignore.
It is a performance that was not expected from Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Şimşek.

He said that whether we like it or not, a Turkey deprived of its ties with the European Union would be seen as a third-world country.

Turkish Foreign Ministry on Nov. 25 said a Turkish delegation's recent visit to Crimea was "unofficial."

The ministry's spokesperson Ambassodor Hüseyin Müftüoğlu said the visit, covered by media outlets, took place with an "initiative of an unofficial delegation, without asking for our ministry's opinion and permission."

A case into daily Özgür Gündem's editors-in-chief on duty continued on Nov. 24, with the case being postponed until Feb. 14, 2017, against a number of arrested and non-arrested journalists.
A total of 16 names are being tried on terror charges as part of an investigation into the closed daily.

Turkish Chief of General Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar visited the southeastern province of Kilis on the border with Syria on Nov. 23.

After landing at Gaziantep Airport in the early hours of the morning, Akar, accompanied by Land Forces Commander Gen. Salih Zeki Çolak, headed to Kilis by helicopter.

Three decades ago, in the wake of 1980 military coup, İsmail Yıldırım left Turkey to go to Paris, via Lebanon. He also helped his friend and prison-mate Yılmaz Güney, the award-winning Turkish director and actor, to escape. Despite Yıldırım's flight, however, his mind and his paintings remained firmly on Turkey and Turkish issues.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has hailed the upcoming Vancouver Turkish Film Festival, which will take place between Nov. 25 and 27. 

"I am pleased to extend my warmest greetings to everyone attending the third annual Vancouver Turkish Film Festival (VTTF)," Trudeau wrote in his letter sent to Hakan Burcuoğlu, the founder and the director of the festival. 

The Presidential Symphony Orchestra (CSO), one of the standard bearers of Turkish music, will celebrate its 190th anniversary with a special concert.

A mother has finally found the dead body of her son who was killed in a jihadist attack almost three months ago after three failed DNA tests were presented to her in the southeastern province of Gaziantep. 

A Doğan Holding initiative, the "Shared Values Movement," which aims to create a dialogue environment where various segments of Turkish society can express their belief in common values, has released a new series of interviews with notable public figures in the country such as Türkan Elçi, İpek Çalışlar and Ali Çarkoğlu.