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A group of prominent Turkish writers has announced that it will visit towns, villages and refugee camps across the border from the Syrian town of Kobane, where heavy fighting between Islamist militants and Kurdish fighters has been ongoing for more than a month.

The fifth annual Divine Liturgy on the Akdamar Island’s famous 10th-century church was held on Sept. 7, with the participation of Christians from Turkey and around the world.

The church was reopened to occasional prayers in 2010 after a hiatus of nearly 100 years.

Farzad Shafai, an Afghan refugee, arrived in Turkey four years ago. Against all odds, he managed to make it into university. Unending bureaucracy stands between him and his future

A found bath under the Byzantine-era church Balatlar in the northern province of Sinop is gradually being revealed with excavations. The head of excavations, Mimar Sinan University Professor Gülgün Köroğlu said they had reached the bath and were continuing to unearth it.

Locals in the northwestern province of Sakarya have claimed that an unidentified person dressed in white and who looks like a “ghoul” has been knocking on their doors and windows for the past 18 months with the aim of scaring them.

A group of artists have announced they will gather at Turkey’s border with the pre-dominantly Kurdish region of northeastern Syria – known as Rojava – to protest the latest assault of Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) militants on the town of Kobane.

Archaeologists working on the Kültepe-Kaniş-Karum trade colony in the Central Anatolian province of Kayseri have discovered a trade document believed to be the world’s oldest.

Ankara University Archaeology Department academic and the head of the excavations, Professor Fikri Kulakoğlu, said the artifact mentioned the payment of a “donkey debt.”

Reporters Without Borders has denounced the Turkish government’s management of the crisis in Iraq, slamming the “censorship” on the coverage of the kidnapping of 80 Turkish citizens near Mosul by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants.

Two “citizens” who did not believe they were citizens of this country lost their lives when security forces finally decided the show was over, roads cannot be left to the control of the “citizen” groups unhappy with the construction of enforced military outposts.

Leaked voice recordings allegedly belonging to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan “were montage,” Turkey’s science watchdog TÜBİTAK has concluded in an expert report submitted to the Ankara Prosecutor’s Office on June 6.