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?? Sanat will bring one of the most powerful singers of the Mediterranean and Middle East, Rita, to Istanbul on April 12 for her first solo performance in Turkey.

Turkey is set to begin taking back illegal migrants crossing into Greece as of March 20, and the returns will start as of April 4, a senior Turkish official has said. 

The White House on March 17 called on the Turkish government to respect democratic values, amid allegations of a fresh press crackdown.

"We urge Turkish authorities to ensure their actions uphold the universal democratic values enshrined in Turkey's constitution, including freedom of speech, freedom of assembly and freedom of the press," said spokesman Josh Earnest.

An Istanbul prosecutor has demanded the arrest of 19 suspects, including former police chiefs Fuat Y?lmazer and Erol Demirhan, who were detained last week in a major eavesdropping case. 

A total of 50 people, including a former university rector, have been detained in western Turkey for having links to the "Fethullahist Terrorist Organization" (FETÖ), a group accused of being formed and headed by U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen to undermine the state from within.

A ban on table football in Turkey has been lifted following a decision by the Constitutional Court, according to a notice issued by the Customs and Trade Ministry. 

Ruling SYRIZA party is seemingly in a state of ‘cognitive dissonance’, as it released a statement condemning the lack of freedom of press in Turkey, just a few days after its leader and Greek PM Alexis Tsipras had signed an agreement with the Turkish state press agency Anadolu!

If you were surprised to see daily Zaman, one of the largest newspapers in Turkey, confiscated by the police last week, then you must be an outsider to Turkish politics. This was actually something that we all expected. It is just the latest step in a long process ?  the Long March, if you will, of our new revolutionaries. 

A five-star hotel in the northern French city of Amiens said March 8 it could not accommodate Britain's Prince William and his wife Kate in July for no other reason than that it is fully booked.

Bar?? ?nce, a former editor of Birgün who still writes for the leftist daily, has been sentenced to 21 months in prison for "insulting" Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an in his plea submitted to court in a former case.