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The latest diplomatic crisis with Russia, which started when a Russian airplane was downed by Turkey on Nov. 24, has exposed many significant points about the fragility of the situation in the region. One of the most crucial points that this crisis has shown is Turkey's urgent need to diversify its energy sources. 

Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Deputy Group Head Oktay Vural has vowed to sue his counterpart from the Democratic Peoples? Party (HDP), Pervin Buldan, after Buldan claimed that his niece was currently fighting with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK).

More civil servants who are seeking to run for a parliamentary seat submitted their resignations on Feb. 10, ahead of the deadline on the same day for civil servants to resign in order to be nominated as candidates for the June 7 parliamentary elections.

The mining company responsible for the operation of the disaster-struck mine in the Aegean coal capital of Soma, where 301 workers lost their lives in Turkey's worst mining accident last May, has obtained authorization to build a new plant in the northern province of Amasya, daily Cumhuriyet has reported.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has appointed nine new members with backgrounds in various fields, mainly from energy, to the Council of State, leading to concerns among environmentalists and chamber of professions that the court may no longer prioritize environmental aspects of energy projects.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has appointed nine new members to the Council of State, with backgrounds in various fields from energy to cooperative associations.

Turkish Defense Minister İsmet Yılmaz has denied recent claims that his relative had been recruited by the Telecommunications Directorate (TİB) without completing an exam.

Hundreds of relatives and friends of Cabinet members and ruling party MPs have been appointed to state positions without passing the required examination, a spokesperson for Turkey's main opposition party has claimed, also producing a list detailing these recently-appointed public officials and their relations with the ruling party.

Turkey’s Council of State has ordered a stay of execution for the government’s decision to “urgently expropriate” an olive grove in western Turkey in order to build a wind farm power plant, marking a legal victory for the plot’s 80-year-old owner, “Auntie” Remziye Saatli.

The Turkish Petroleum Corporation (TPAO) has allocated a budget of $1.2 billion for increasing its send-out capacity of natural gas storage in Silivri in a move to solve the country’s long-lasting storage problem in the sector.