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ISTANBUL - Turkey has launched a new campaign for raising employment by supporting businesses, said the country’s minister of family, labor and social services on Monday.“As a state, we pay salaries, taxes and premiums of every new personnel employed by businesses for three months,” said Zehra Zumrut Selcuk said at an event in the capital

Ankara.The minister added that the government will continue to pay personnel’s taxes and premiums for following nine months, the minister added.Meanwhile, Berat Albayrak, Turkey’s finance and treasury minister, said: “Within the scope of employment-intensive policies, Turkey has created over 10 million jobs since 2009.”

ANKARA/ISTANBUL - The last rites of internationally acclaimed historian Kemal Karpat were preformed on Monday in a state ceremony.Karpat died of multi-organ failure last Wednesday in Wisconsin, U.S. at the age of

96.In a funeral ceremony held at Istanbul University, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the Turkish people should follow his footsteps and pursue “even greater” academic...

ISTANBUL - Turkey attracted nearly $13.2 billion in foreign direct investment (FDI) in 2018, said the head of presidency’s investment office on Monday.The Netherlands and Azerbaijan were the top two sources of direct investments last year, Arda Ermut told a meeting in Istanbul.“We want to receive 1.5 percent of total global direct investments. At first, we want to reach $18 billion [of FDI] then $20-25 billion,” Ermut said.The country aims to increase

its share to 2 percent in the long term, Ermut stressed. “Turkey has outperformed the emerging countries in terms of attracting investment,”

By Michael Hernandez

WASHINGTON - In a night of firsts, the 2019 Oscars saw historically underrepresented communities and their stories ascend to the top of Hollywood’s glitziest awards show. Green Book, the biographical film about black Jazz pianist Don Shirley and his white driver and bodyguard in the segregated South, took home the night’s top prize, winning best picture at the 91st Academy Awards. Mahershala Ali, who is Muslim and plays Shirley, won best supporting actor for his performance.

By Mehmet Emin Gurbuz

BOLU - A team of Turkish scientists now in Antarctica has established a temporary science base on the bottom of

the world, said the nation’s industry and technology minister on Monday.Following the setting up of the landmark base, Turkish “scientists are currently planning their third science expedition

to Antarctica,” Mustafa Varank told a campaign rally in Bolu.Earlier this month, a Turkish team led by scientist Burcu Ozsoy -- Turkey’s second team to the frozen...

By Muhammed Shekh Yusuf

ISTANBUL - The International Union for Muslim Scholars (IUMS) has condemned the execution of nine youths by the Egyptian authorities in connection

with the assassination of the country’s attorney-general in 2015. “IUMS has received with great sadness and sorrow the news of executing nine innocent youths…after being forced to confess,” ...

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