Akbulut

A kindergarten tutor in the Black Sea province of Samsun has left everything behind to make her father's dreams come true, becoming a stockbreeder with some 26 cattle.

"Life in the village is surely better than the one in cities," Merve Akbulut told Anadolu Agency.

Turkey's Yıldırım Akbulut, who served as both prime minister and parliament speaker, passed away on April 14 in Ankara, the Turkish capital. He was 86.

A parliamentarian for nearly two decades - from 1983 to 2002 - Akbulut had been receiving treatment at Ankara University Hospital.

A local agricultural company in the southern province of Antalya growing micro-sized special fruits and vegetables has now begun selling "baby watermelons" weighing only five grams.

Former Fenerbahçe football club player Serhat Akın has filed a lawsuit against Akbulut, the Turkish extension of the Denmark-based Hummel clothing brand, for selling products with the logo of a bull accompanied by the phrase “Kadıköy bull,” which he claims as his own nickname.

A team of five students from a Turkish university have designed a robot which can work as a babysitter, a watchman or even a personal alarm bell.

Ankara-based Bilkent University students Muhammed Akbulut, Hüseyin Furkan Bozkurt, Suleiman Aijaz Memon, Hamed Mohammadi and Fahrettin Ömer Uyar, have named their creation Arbo.

Istanbul police detained two people on May 15 over allegations that they committed fraud worth $4.5 million against Gregory Van der Wiel, a Dutch international footballer who plays for Turkish club Fenerbahçe.

Theologian Professor Hayreddin Karaduman wrote that casting a "yes" vote could be interpreted as a religious duty. Another theologian, Professor Hayri Kırbaşoğlu, objected with a tweet, saying voting "yes" or "no" had nothing to do with religious duty. "It is a political choice. We do not live in the Middle Ages; let's wake up from this deep sleep."

An Istanbul court on Sept. 24 ordered the arrest of a man who attacked a metrobus driver with an umbrella, causing an accident which injured eleven.

The passenger, identified as Murat Akbulut, had been referred to court for arrest on charges of malicious wounding, damaging public property.

A local court ruled on April 18 for the release of three defendants in the case of Gezi victim Ali ?smail Korkmaz who was beaten to death during the Gezi Park demonstrations in 2013.

Sarkis Eken, an 86-year-old known as one of the oldest Armenians born and residing in the southeastern province of Diyarbak?r, passed away at Dicle University's hospital, where he was receiving treatment.