The man, who was ejected from the teahouse, returned minutes later and fired four gunshots into the establishment. A 73-year-old man, Celal Şar, was wounded in the attack while he was stting in the teahouse. He was hospitalized with a wound in his ear.

Police are still looking for the suspect.

Turkish tea is popular mainly throughout Turkey and the Turkish diaspora, as well as in Northern Cyprus and some Balkan countries.

Turkey has the highest per capita tea consumption in the World at 2.5 kg per person, followed by the United Kingdom with 2.1 kg per person.

Simultaneously in Giresun province, one academician was dismissed on charges of creating pro-PKK propaganda.

Also, the houses of three academicians were searched as a part of an investigation against the group of academicians blaming government for a massacre in Bolu province.

In Gaziantep province the officials opened an investigation into four academicians who issued a manifesto on the military's operation against PKK terrorists.

The academicians in several provinces of Turkey were among those 1,128 people comprising the 'Group of Academics for Peace' who issued a manifesto on the military's operation against PKK terrorists, accusing the state of violating human rights and “causing a massacre."

The group was harshly criticized by Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu on Thursday, for not including a word about the PKK terrorism that has been killing civilians, including women and children as well as security officials in the area.

Turkish PM criticizes academics for pro-PKK propaganda

PM criticized the academics for using provocative language, adding the statement could not be considered freedom of thought.

Before Davutoğlu, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli also reacted to the statements of the group.

The statement of the academicians followed the military's efforts in the southeastern Turkey, aiming at fighting against the PKK to rescue cities from militants by declaring curfews and launching operations in the region.

The PKK – considered a terrorist organization by Turkey, the US and the EU – resumed its armed campaign in late July.

More than 200 members of the security forces were martyred and over 3,100 PKK terrorists were killed in 2015 alone.

The latest in a string of operations targeting the parallel state was conducted by the Kocaeli police department on Tuesday. The raids were launched across eight provinces in line with the investigation, which has gradually expanded.

Police were seeking police officers said to have connections with the 'parallel state,' led by US-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gülen. The cleric is wanted on terror charges in Turkey.

The suspects include 1st degree police chiefs, 2nd degree police chiefs, the heads of several divisions and police chiefs, said the police sources. The raids are expected to continue.

Neither the Kocaeli police department nor the chief public prosecutor's office have released an offfical statement yet.

Fire crews from a nearby refinery, Petkim, and central province were sent to the Turkish Petroleum Corporation, or TÜPRAŞ, to put out the fire.

One firefighter said the fire began after blazes engulfed a 160 cubic meters crude oil tank, belonging to the TÜPRAŞ.

Aliağa district governor, Bayram Yılmaz, said the fire was brought under control in nearly an hour. Yılmaz also said that a short-circuit in the electrical wiring near the tank triggered the fire.

Bizimkocaeli.com, a local media outlet, said that Aziz Eryürek died late Friday at home after a long battle with stomach cancer.

He was known as being terminally ill before he succumbed to his illness.

The twins, had been ironically born in a three-minute interval in 1942 in Derince, a town near the northwestern province, just not far from Istanbul.

Shortly after Aziz passed away, his brother Remzi Eryürek suddenly fell ill and his heart stopped.  He was declared dead in three minutes despite a medic’s frantic efforts for revive him.

The deceased were buried on Saturday in their hometown Derince following a funeral service in the town’s mosque.

    The S-70B Sikorsky aircraft, which took off from the Cengiz Topel Military Airport in Kocaeli, disappeared from radar after it lost connection with its base at 12:25 Turkish local time. 

    The wreckage of the chopper has been located in a mountainous region in the Kartepe district of Kocaeli province.

    The last helicopter crash to take place in the country occurred in a rural area near the Golbasi district in the capital, Ankara, in December of last year. All four soldiers on board were killed.

    Security officials have launched an investigation to uncover the cause of the crash.