A Turkish musician who murdered his estranged wife and sister-in-law has been jailed for life after initially trying to blame the shooting on the victims’ mother and brother. Emre Guvener, 35, was convicted of killing his wife Zerrin Demir Guvener, 22, and sister-in-law Betul Demir, 28, in the district of…
A Turkish great grandmother who was a teenager during World War I has passed away at the age of 122. Emine Baytar, who lived in the neighbourhood of Andac in the district of Edremit in the south-eastern Turkish city of Van, died on 4th December. Her identity card said that…
The poor family of this five-year-old girl whose face was badly burned in a house blaze when she was a baby is now receiving help from the Turkish government after launching an appeal. Dilara Sencan, 5, suffered severe burns on different parts of her body when a fire broke out…
A nurse who had her child taken away by a Turkish court because her ex-husband complained she might infect him with COVID-19 has had the ruling overturned after the story made international headlines. Cemile Deniz, 31, who works in the State Hospital Home Health Services unit in the northern Turkish…
A 1,200-year-old baptismal font has been seized by the police after receiving a tip off about it being sold online for GBP 9,500 by a Turkish farmer who found it in his field. The ancient historical monument was recently confiscated in the district of Ortakoy in the Turkish province of…