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Babich expressed belief that examples like her would increase.

Europe's first mayor wearing headscarf Amra Babich said she was proud to show the success of a Muslim woman.

Babich, mayor of Visoko city in Bosnia-Herzegovina, told AA on Tuesday that she was proud of being elected a headscarved woman mayor.

It is giving me honor to show what a Muslim woman is capable of doing, she said.

I'm trying to show that a Muslim woman could be successful in life while fulfilling religious practices too, said Babich.

Babich, who visited Turkey for the first time after being elected as mayor, said that Muslim women, who were exerting efforts to be successful in life, deserved world's respect.

Noting that she was an example for other headscarved women, Babich expressed belief that examples like her would increase.

She said that participation of women in administrations was very important, adding that there were many successful headscarved women in Bosnia.

Babich said that she paid a visit to Turkey in order to show that Visoko municipality's doors were open to Turkish entrepreneurs.

Babich got 29,39 of votes in Visoko municipality elections which she ran as a candidate of Democratic Movement Party (SDA) that was founded by former president Alija Izzetbegovich. SDA has won the local elections in Bosnia-Herzegovina taking 34 municipalities out of 125.

Palestinian President Abbas delivered a speech at Turkish parliament as part of a visit in Ankara.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas delivered a speech at the Turkish parliament as part of a visit in the Turkish capital, Ankara.

Abbas pays his first trip abroad since the UN raised Palestine's status to "non-member observer state" earlier this month and Turkey was a staunch supporter for the Palestinian bid for the upgrade.

"Things we do now are just the beginning not the result. We still have a long and a tough road ahead. But we are marching on the right path. We are marching towards a fully independent Palestinian state within the 1967 borders and with God's willing the capital of that state will be Jerusalem," Abbas told the Turkish MPs.

Abbas expressed gratitude for the Turkish president, government and the Turkish people for their support to the Palestinian cause, saying that Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu's visit to New York on the occasion of the UN voting on status upgrade was the latest show of the Turkish support.

Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan said Turkey has always supported peace, dialogue and consensus.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that stability and peace of the region was related with Turkey's prosperity and growth.

We have always supported peace, dialogue and consensus, added Erdogan who spoke on behalf of government on 2013 Budget at Turkish Parliament on Monday.

Turkey has always supported the victim and rightful one, not the cruel and strong one, said Erdogan.

Noting that Syrian people were brothers of Turkish people, Erdogan said that Turkey had a problem with Assad administration not with territorial integrity of Syria, adding that Turkey had the same view about Iraq too.

Erdogan said that Turkey was helping in every part of the world via TIKA, adding that TIKA undertook 10,086 projects between 2002 and 2011.

Turkey extended 1.2 billion USD of development assistance to other countries in 2011, said Erdogan.

he U.S. administration placed the al-Nusra Front in Syria on the list of terrorist organizations.

In a written statement released on Tuesday, the Spokesperson for the U.S. State Department, Victoria Nuland said that the al-Nusra Front in Syria was placed on the list of terrorist organizations for their links to al Qaeda in Iraq.

Hundreds of Syrians crhossed into Turkey after anairstrike reportedly targeted a bakery and killed scores of people in a rebel-held Syrian town, a Turkish government official said.

Some 700 people, most of them women and children, arrived in the Turkish border town of Reyhanli, the official said. 1100 refugees arrived on foot or by cars.

Turkey is hosting more than 145,000 refugees from Syria, where President Bashar Assad's regime relies heavily on airstrikes in its fight against insurgents. The conflict in Syria dates to March 2011, and human rights activists estimate more than 40,000 people have died in what began as a peaceful uprising but has become a civil war.

The Turkish official said the refugees were from Hama, the province where the central town of Halfaya is located. Some Syrian activists said one of the regime's airstrikes targeted a bakery in Halfaya.

Amateur videos posted online showed the bodies of many dead and wounded scattered in a street.

The Observatory for Human Rights said it had collected the names of 40 men and three women killed in Halfaya. The group also reported seeing photos of the dead bodies of 15 more unknown men.

Separately, the Turkish official said a tent in the Telhamut refugee camp caught fire killing a two-year-old boy. Four of his siblings were injured, and three were in serious condition at a hospital. The fire at the camp, which is near the town of Ceylanpinar, was triggered by an electric heater.

The Turkish official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to journalists on the record.

In July, two refugees died in a similar fire at another refugee camp.