Turkish Cabinet of Ministers

Major Ankara road to be blocked over adverse ruling on presidential palace

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.

Construction of presidential palace unlawful: Turkey's top court

Turkey's Council of State has annulled the decisions which had permitted the construction of the controversial presidential palace of President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an in an area called Atatürk Forest Farm (AOÇ) in the Be?tepe neighborhood of the capital Ankara, saying the construction was "unlawful" and the AOÇ was public property with "special status."