After almost six months of public calls from President Tayyip Erdogan's government, the country's largest market chains began a month-long price freeze and some cut prices this month. Yavuz Altun, chief executive of 200-store chain Happy Center, said discounts for shoppers will depend on how much more the chain had to pay its suppliers.
More than 10,000 organ donors from different nationalities, backgrounds and age groups have registered to the National Programme for Organ and Tissue Donat..
Bayat, who was also accused by Iran of violating hijab practice at a tournament in 2020, said the International Chess Federation (FIDE) had removed her from its arbiters' commission after she angered its President Arkady Dvorkovich. The Iranian said Dvorkovich asked her to change her attire in Iceland, after another chess official had raised the issue.