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Divers search for missing as toll from Turkey floods hits 79

Rescue teams working in area where Ezine Stream flows into Black Sea, local media report, more than a week after severe floods devastated parts of northwestern Turkey.

Why Turkey wants you to visit this summer

Turkey, a country with many rich offerings - from its natural beauty, gastronomy, history and the arts - wants tourists to continue coming to its highly unique and distinctive regions.

The Bosnian-born Ottoman commander who stopped Napoleon

Napoleon Bonaparte's ambition to establish an empire in the East was crushed in 1799 at the Siege of Acre by Ahmed Jazzar Pasha.

Q&A: ‘Russia is not willing to reduce its share of the European gas market’

In an interview with TRT World, energy security analyst Omid Shokri Kalehsar touched upon several aspects of competing foreign policies in the Eastern Mediterranean, saying Moscow would like to play a dominant role in the overall energy equation.

Turkey's Cavusoglu warns against 'Syria-like' crisis in Libya

"If today Libya becomes like Syria, then the turn will come for the other countries in the region," Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu cautions in governing AK Party's consultation meeting.

Not possible to eradicate terrorism through military means alone - Altun

"You have to eliminate the social dynamics underlying radicalisation. Turkey's secure regional plan is for exactly this goal," says Fahrettin Altun, the communications director for Turkish Presidency.

Libyan forces push back Haftar's troops south of Tripoli - Libyan crisis

Libya's unity government was created at UN-backed talks in 2015, but it has struggled to assert control, while a number of international initiatives since have failed to unite the country.

Spain takes more African migrants despite signs of tension

An NGO ship which saved 87 migrants in distress off Libya docked in Spain on Thursday after roaming the Mediterranean for days, the third such vessel to be allowed in the country in two months after Italy refused to take them in.

At least 19 dead as refugee boat sinks off northern Cyprus

International Organization for Migration says before the Cyprus wreck, at least 1,443 people died or went missing this year in the Mediterranean Sea route from northern Africa as of July 15.

Suicide car bomb kills eight regime and rebel fighters in Daraa - SOHR

In another attack, rebels and opposition forces killed more than two dozen pro-regime fighters in Al Ateira, a northwestern stronghold of Syrian regime leader Bashar al Assad, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

Swiss, French police arrest 10 after anti-terrorism raids

The raids were part of an investigation that began in June 2016. The arrests were made amid suspicion over an attack plot.

Daesh beheads 11 in Libya – Haftar forces

At least nine soldiers and two civilians were killed in the gruesome attack carried out about 500 kilometres south of Tripoli.