I was deeply saddened to learn about the terrorist attack two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, which resulted in the deaths of at least 49 individuals and the wounding of 20. I strongly condemn this horrific attack, and I pray to God the Most Compassionate for mercy for those who lost their lives, for patience and perseverance for their loved ones, and the quick recovery of the injured.

Zealand Police Commissioner Mike Bush said Friday the death toll from the Christchurch mosque shootings had risen to 49. He said 41 people were killed in Deans Avenue Mosque and seven were killed in the Linwood mosque in central Christchurch. One victim died at Christchurch Hospital.

A Japanese woman who still enjoys studying maths and playing the board game Othello is the world's oldest living person at the age of 116 years and 66 days, Guinness World Records says.

The process for collecting signatures for presidential nominees, which began on February 23rd, ended at midnight. Each presidential candidate should collect at least 10,000 signatures from the electorate.

Kazım Kurnaz, a high-school geography teacher who was dismissed by a decree issued by the Turkish government in the aftermath of a coup attempt on July 15, 2016, died on Feb 1 in a construction accident in Duzce province, MedyaBold reported this week.

Riot police in İstanbul fired tear gas and plastic bullets to disperse thousands of demonstrators who tried to march along the city’s main pedestrian avenue to mark International Women’s Day on Friday evening. Thousands of people, most of them women, gathered near İstiklal Street in İstanbul’s busy Taksim neighborhood for a march that police said was unauthorized.

OSCE Secretary General Thomas Greminger launched on Wednesday in Brussels a report that gives a detailed picture of the physical, sexual and psychological violence many women and girls have had to endure in South-Eastern and Eastern Europe in the last decades.

US first lady Melania Trump on Monday visited a school affiliated with the Gülen movement in Tulsa, Oklahoma, as part of her “Be Best” initiative to promote children’s well-being and speak out against cyberbullying and opioid abuse, the Ahval news website reported.