The three girls may miss out on the opportunity to represent Kenya in the International Robotic Olympiad in Turkey this November if they do not get funding to support their travel.
Firefighters are battling a strong forest fire in Turkey's Aegean city of Izmir for a third day on Saturday, AFP reporters said, with hundreds more people evacuated overnight.
A Turkish parliamentary delegation accompanied by the Turkish ambassador to the Netherlands filed a "declaration of intervention" at the ICJ's headquarters in The Hague.
Turkey staged new artillery strikes against Kurdish separatist positions in northern Iraq, the defence ministry and Iraqi sources said Saturday.
Turkey is pushing for diplomatic and economic influence on the world stage not least in Africa, where it announced plans this week to search for oil and gas off Somalia.
The Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism said Sunday that 12,139 historical artifacts have been repatriated since 2002 as the country has intensified efforts to recover cultural artifacts.