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A passenger bus veered and tumbled off a highway in western Turkey, killing 15 people on Sunday. The governor’s office of Balikesir province said the bus overturned at 04:40 local time on Sunday. Emergency units arrived at the site, where 11 people died. Four others died in the hospital. The …

Turkey has ordered the arrest of 128 military personnel suspected of supporting US-based opposition figure Fethullah Gulen, whom Ankara blames for the failed 2016 coup attempt against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The state-run Anadolu news agency reported on Tuesday that police were looking for more than half of the military …