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The influential television host, Mehmet Akif Ersoy, has been arrested as part of a drug trafficking investigation and placed ...

Sudan and Turkey reached a twinning agreement between Port Sudan and Mersin ports on Tuesday, a move set to increase cooperation and maritime trade between the two countries.The Turkish Ambassador to ...

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Turkey's Ministry of Defense confirmed that 20 soldiers were killed on Tuesday when a military cargo plane crashed in neighboring Georgia on its way back from Azerbaijan. Georgian Interior Minister ...

Arabic literature is still partly shaped by a story written in Europe more than a century ago. It begins in the eighth century, when Baghdad under the Abbasid caliphs became a centre of science, ...

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