Headlines • Power outage still being investigated: Energy Minister Yildiz • Turkey: Training for Syrian fighters expected in May • Prosecutor dies after Turkey hostage siege; 2 gunmen killed Details Power outage still being investigated: Energy Minister Yıldız Turkey's energy minister has ruled out electricity scarcity as a factor behind the country's massive power outage on Tuesday, as the investigation into its cause continues. "We have no clear data yet.…

News This week officials from Iran and six other countries, the US, Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany, agreed on a framework for ways to contain Iran's nuclear programme. It provides guidelines for a more lasting agreement, one that must conclude by June 30, 2015. However, the framework sees Iran surrender key pillars of its nuclear programme in return for the lifting of sanctions. Many Iranians may wonder why their…

News: Eventful hours were lived in the Çağlayan Courthouse in Istanbul, after the prosecutor of Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office of Employee Crimes, Mehmet Selim Kiraz who was leading an investigation into the death of Berkin Elvan, was taken hostage by The Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C). At about 8:30 pm, two explosions and hundreds of gunfire could be heard. While prosecutor of Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office of Employee…

News: On March 26, the Saudi-led Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) announced that it began air strikes on Shia Houthi rebels in Yemen to defend the ‘legitimate government' of Yemen's fugitive president, AbdRabbuh Mansur Hadi as well as to protect the ‘Ahlus Sunnah' of Yemen. According to media, Saudi authorities have already gathered troops along the border with Yemen in preparation for any possible ground offensive. Apart from few Middle Eastern…