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• Nightly fight for life and death on Aegean Sea

  As Asian migrants attempt to cross the Aegean Sea to reach Europe, the Turkish Coast Guard tries to keep them from risking their lives on overcrowded dinghies and brings them back to Turkey. Here is series of dramatic photos by Anadolu Agency showing the on-sea struggle seen almost every night on the Aegean.
  

• Turkish justice minister says top election system in judicial body ‘a mistake,’ needs to be changed 

  Turkish Justice Minister Kenan İpek has said the election process of the Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK) members is wrong and needs to be changed. 
  

• Party organizations and citizens apathetic during election campaign: President Erdoğan

  Political party organizations and citizens in Anatolia are apathetic towards pre-election campaigns, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said
  

• Nobody says the project is wrong, Kılıçdaroğlu says

  The main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu said May 22 nobody, including Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, could say that the CHP’s latest proposed project is wrong
  

• HDP co-chair says bomber from ISIL

  Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş has said the assailant who carried out twin bombings against his party’s buildings in southern Turkey was linked toISIL rather than the outlawed Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C).
  

• President Erdoğan to deliver luxury car to top cleric

  The presidency will deliver a new official car to Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) head Mehmet Görmez, President Erdoğan has said, after the former said he would return his luxurious official vehicle. 
  

• Europe's first airport on artificial island opens in Black Sea

  Europe's first airport on an artificial island opened on May 22, as a morning Turkish Airlines flight from Istanbul carrying 136 passengers touched down on its runway, the first of its kind outside the Far East
  

• Nightly fight for life and death on Aegean Sea

  As Asian migrants attempt to cross the Aegean Sea to reach Europe, the Turkish Coast Guard tries to keep them from risking their lives on overcrowded dinghies and brings them back to Turkey. Here is series of dramatic photos by Anadolu Agency showing the on-sea struggle seen almost every night on the Aegean.
  

• Turkish justice minister says top election system in judicial body ‘a mistake,’ needs to be changed 

  Turkish Justice Minister Kenan İpek has said the election process of the Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK) members is wrong and needs to be changed. 
  

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Former chief prosecutor of Supreme Court of Appeals says successor should conduct duty ‘without disturbing certain people’ The former chief prosecutor of the Supreme Court of Appeals, at the ceremony of the inauguration of the new chief prosecutor, advised his successor to pursue his duties without disturbing certain people. Comment(s) 5/22/2015

Homeland Party demands election body cancel Erdoğan rally  The Homeland (Vatan) Party applied to the Supreme Election Board (YSK) for the cancellation of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s rally in Adana May 29 on the grounds that the party was also scheduled to hold a rally the same day Comment(s) 5/22/2015

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LOCAL Turkish government pledges 10,600 more tablets for students  ANKARA The Turkish government will deliver 10,600 tablet PCs in the next four years, beginning from 2016, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said, noting that the production of the equipment would be conducted both in Turkey and abroad Comment(s) 5/22/2015

POLITICS Two AKP members ask mining companies to send miners to rally in disaster-struck Soma: MHP deputy MANİSA – Doğan News Agency Two members of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) from Turkey’s mining disaster-struck Aegean province of Manisa have told mine owners, who work with a royalty system, to bring miners to the AKP election rally in Manisa on May 24, according to a Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) deputy Comment(s) 5/22/2015

'Hello dictator,' Juncker says to Hungary's Orban  RIGA - Agence France-Presse European Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker teased Hungarian Premier Viktor Orban over his strongman reputation Friday, jokingly greeting him as "dictator" as he arrived at an EU summit in Riga. Comment(s) 5/22/2015

5/22/2015China’s bank completes takeover of Tekstilbank

5/22/2015EBRD women business program in Gaziantep

5/22/2015Local Doğan Holding bids for Total’s Turkish fuel distribution

5/22/2015US-Chinese tensions over ‘islands’ rising

Deputy Russia FM: Western Mideast policies ‘short-sighted’ SOUTHERN SHUNEH, Jordan - The Associated Press A deputy Russian foreign minister says external players cannot solve the Syria crisis and that “short-sighted’” Western policies in the Middle East have helped destabilize countries such as Syria, Iraq and Libya Comment(s) 5/22/2015

Suicide bomber in deadly attack on Shiite mosque in Saudi  RIYADH - Agence France-Presse A suicide bomber detonated an explosives vest during May 22 weekly prayers at a Shiite mosque in eastern Saudi Arabia, killing and wounding several people, officials said. Comment(s) 5/22/2015

Worker dies at Istanbul metro construction site one day after groundbreaking ceremony ISTANBUL – Doğan News Agency A worker died at the construction site of a new Istanbul metro line on May 22, just one day after its groundbreaking ceremony with the participation of Istanbul Metropolitan Mayor Kadir Topbaş Comment(s) 5/22/2015

Tunis wants Rome to extradite Moroccan suspect in museum attack  ROME - Agence France-Presse Tunisia has asked Italy to extradite a Moroccan suspected of involvement in the deadly attack on the Bardo museum in Tunis in March, the interior ministry said Friday. Comment(s) 5/20/2015

Manufacturing activities resume in two car companies, halt in another amid labor protests  ISTANBUL Turkey’s Ford Otosan and Tofaş have said manufacturing operations resumed at their plants in northwest Turkey beginning on the night shift of May 21 and on May 22 Comment(s) 5/22/2015

Kuwait magnate Khorafi dies at 75 on his way back from Turkey KUWAIT CITY - Agence France-Presse Kuwait's richest independent businessman, Jassem al-Khorafi, who served as speaker of the Gulf emirate's parliament for a decade, has died at the age of 75, his family said Comment(s) 5/22/2015

Second-largest irrigation project opens in Central Anatolia KONYA - Anadolu Agency The Blue Tunnel Project began transferring water to the Konya Plain in Central Anatolia on May 21, an official from the State Water Works Department has confirmed Comment(s) 5/22/2015

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• Platform calls for solidarity among women deputies 

  
  

  GİLA BENMAYOR writes :

  One of the issues people have wondered the most about ahead of the June elections is how much the ratio of women deputies in parliament will increase.

  Comment(s) 5/23/2015

• Experts cannot determine how the codes were cracked 

  
  

  İSMET BERKAN writes :

  Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor Tekin Küçük wrote the indictment on the wiretapping of crypto phones. 

  Comment(s) 5/23/2015

• CHP sticks with economic projects not ideology

  
  

  MURAT YETKİN writes :

  Turkey’s social democratic main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) has revealed another economic pledge, this time a strategic one with less than three weeks left before the critical June 7 elections

  Comment(s) 5/22/2015

• ISIL expands under the shadow of Iran nuclear talks

  
  

  MURAT YETKİN writes :

  According to the U.S. administration, the capture of Ramadi by ISIL only some 100 km west of the Iraqi capital Baghdad was something ordinary regarding the bigger picture of the war.

  Comment(s) 5/23/2015

• Another Bosnian war on the brink?

  
  

  VERDA ÖZER writes :

  Sarajevo is a typical Ottoman town where you instantly come across mosques, bazaars and fountains remaining from the Ottoman era, while there are many Turkish-speaking people to be found walking through its streets. 

  Comment(s) 5/23/2015

• Turkey and the limits of urbanization

  
  

  GÜVEN SAK writes :

  We in Turkey compare ourselves to Europe. It is too often a heartbreaking exercise, which is why our persistence in the practice is so telling. 

  Comment(s) 5/23/2015

• CHP’s ‘Center Turkey’ project 

  
  

  MELİS ALPHAN writes :

  When you ask which feature is Turkey’s most important in terms of comparative advantages, all foreign investors reply “geographic position.” Turkey’s second advantage is its young population. 

  Comment(s) 5/23/2015

• A Mercedes affair

  
  

  MUSTAFA AKYOL writes :

  Turkey is full of political controversies, and not all of them are really significant. The recent controversy over a luxury Mercedes car bought for the head of the Directorate of Religious Affairs (“Diyanet” in Turkish) was arguably significant, though. 

  Comment(s) 5/23/2015

• Platform calls for solidarity among women deputies 

  
  

  GİLA BENMAYOR writes :

  One of the issues people have wondered the most about ahead of the June elections is how much the ratio of women deputies in parliament will increase.

  Comment(s) 5/23/2015

• Experts cannot determine how the codes were cracked 

  
  

  İSMET BERKAN writes :

  Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor Tekin Küçük wrote the indictment on the wiretapping of crypto phones. 

  Comment(s) 5/23/2015

• CHP sticks with economic projects not ideology

  
  

  MURAT YETKİN writes :

  Turkey’s social democratic main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) has revealed another economic pledge, this time a strategic one with less than three weeks left before the critical June 7 elections

  Comment(s) 5/22/2015

• ISIL expands under the shadow of Iran nuclear talks

  
  

  MURAT YETKİN writes :

  According to the U.S. administration, the capture of Ramadi by ISIL only some 100 km west of the Iraqi capital Baghdad was something ordinary regarding the bigger picture of the war.

  Comment(s) 5/23/2015

• Another Bosnian war on the brink?

  
  

  VERDA ÖZER writes :

  Sarajevo is a typical Ottoman town where you instantly come across mosques, bazaars and fountains remaining from the Ottoman era, while there are many Turkish-speaking people to be found walking through its streets. 

  Comment(s) 5/23/2015

• Turkey and the limits of urbanization

  
  

  GÜVEN SAK writes :

  We in Turkey compare ourselves to Europe. It is too often a heartbreaking exercise, which is why our persistence in the practice is so telling. 

  Comment(s) 5/23/2015

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• Wild Beasts to headline Soundgarden Festival 

  The 5th Babylon Soundgarden Festival will be held May 23 at Babylon Kilyos, which is to be the festival’s permanent home. 
  

• Numerical guide to Turkish editors 

  Never use the numerical phrase ‘52 percent’ in any of your texts, even if it is an economy story. Other problematic numbers in the Turkish language are 31 and 69. Avoid them altogether
  

• Hittite king comes to Istanbul 

  A sculpture of Hittite King Suppiluliuma, which was unearthed in Hatay in 2012, has been reproduced by a 3-D printer in a new project 
  

• Church-turned mosque closed in Venice 

  A Swiss-Icelandic artist’s mosque installation, which was placed in the former Catholic church of Santa Maria dell’Abbazia della Misericordia as part of Iceland’s pavilion at the 56th Biennale art fair in Venice, has been closed after mounting opposition against the project. 
  

• Istanbul derby to decide fate of league title race

  Spor Toto Super League leader Galatasaray hosts Beşiktaş this weekend in a game that could see the Istanbul club take the last step toward the league title.
  

• ‘Swan Lake’ comes to Istanbul with Kremlin Ballet 

  Tchaikovsky’s masterpiece ‘Swan Lake’ will be on the Istanbul stage with a unique performance by the Kremlin Ballet Theater 
  

• Tour to the land of roses 

  The Turkish Cultural Foundation’s Culinary Arts Center YESAM in Istanbul has organized a cultural journey to the heart of the rose.
  

• Wild Beasts to headline Soundgarden Festival 

  The 5th Babylon Soundgarden Festival will be held May 23 at Babylon Kilyos, which is to be the festival’s permanent home. 
  

• Numerical guide to Turkish editors 

  Never use the numerical phrase ‘52 percent’ in any of your texts, even if it is an economy story. Other problematic numbers in the Turkish language are 31 and 69. Avoid them altogether
  

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IN PHOTOS: All-star celebrity bash near Cannes raises $30m for AIDS fight  A soiree with some of Hollywood's biggest names held late May 21 near Cannes during the film festival raised $30 million (27 million euros) for the fight against AIDS.

IN PHOTOS: Ancient town of Palmyra falls under control of ISIL Palmyra, which contains the monumental ruins of one of the ancient world's most important cultural centers, fell under ISIL control on May 21

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Turkish justice minister says top election system in judicial body ‘a mistake,’ needs to be changed  Turkish Justice Minister Kenan İpek has said the election process of the Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK) members is wrong and needs to be changed.

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China’s bank completes takeover of Tekstilbank  The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Limited (ICBC), the world’s largest bank, has completed a takeover of some 75.5 percent of the stakes in Turkey’s Tekstilbank.

EBRD women business program in Gaziantep The Finance and Advice for Women in Business Program, funded by the European Union (EU), the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and Turkey, was introduced to local women-led businesses in the southeastern province of Gaziantep on May 21

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Suicide bomber in deadly attack on Shiite mosque in Saudi  A suicide bomber detonated an explosives vest during May 22 weekly prayers at a Shiite mosque in eastern Saudi Arabia, killing and wounding several people, officials said.

'Hello dictator,' Juncker says to Hungary's Orban  European Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker teased Hungarian Premier Viktor Orban over his strongman reputation Friday, jokingly greeting him as "dictator" as he arrived at an EU summit in Riga.

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