5th Administrative Court

A major thoroughfare in Ankara has been closed to vehicular traffic, with concrete blocks having been installed at 28 separate points in order to stop traffic from accessing the road as part of an environmental protection plan.

A major thoroughfare in the Atatürk Forest Farm (AOÇ), a previously protected area in the capital of Ankara containing Turkey's controversial presidential complex, will be blocked to vehicular traffic, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported the Ankara Metropolitan Municipality as saying.

Istanbul?s former governor Hüseyin Avni Mutlu was fined 10,000 Turkish Liras for accusing a then-17-year-old Dilan Alp of being a member of ?marginal groups? during the May Day protests of 2013, during which she was hit in the head by a tear gas canister shot by the police.

President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an's 1,150-room mega-palace was illegally constructed on protected land, Turkey's top administrative court has confirmed in a ruling, according to architects' NGO.

Erdo?an moved into the palace last year, brushing aside protests by opposition parties and advocacy groups who said the $615 million complex was illegal.

The family of a young Istanbul architect who committed suicide in 2010 after being subjected to police torture has submitted an individual complaint to Turkey’s Constitutional Court, after the Council of State approved a decision that rejected the relatives’ appeal regarding “insufficient punishment for police officers.”

Construction on a new Hyatt Regency Hotel that has drawn controversy on the grounds that it will occupy an important plot of land along the coast of the Marmara Sea has stopped following a ceast and desist order by Bakırköy Municipality.