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The group deputy spokesperson of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), Mustafa Elitaş, said the party may offer President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan membership after April 27 or 28. 

Military force may be an option to fight the presence of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the Sinjar district near Mosul in northern Iraq, Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani has said, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported on Dec. 24. 

A local court in the southeastern Turkish province of Diyarbakır ordered the arrest of Democratic Unity Party (DBP) co-head Sebahat Tuncel on Nov. 6, two days after she was detained by police in front of the courthouse.

Democratic Unity Party (DBP) co-head Sebahat Tuncel was detained by police in front of the courthouse in the southeastern Turkish province of Diyarbakır on Nov. 4, as a wave of detentions targeted senior politicians of the Kurdish issue-focused Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP).

Three militants from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) were caught on camera in the eastern province of Siirt, with local police claiming the militants were preparing an attack in the center of the province, Doğan News Agency has reported.

Turkey's Interior Ministry appointed trustees to 28 local municipalities across the country on Sept. 11 on the grounds that they allegedly provided support to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and Fethullahist Terror Organization (FETÖ), which was accused of staging the failed coup attempt of July 15, sparking angry reaction from the opposition.

A delegation from Turkey's far-right Great Unity Party (BBP) was detained at Israel's Tel Aviv airport early on May 5, the party has said.

A delegation from Turkey's far-right Great Unity Party (BBP) was detained at Israel's Tel Aviv airport early on May 5, the party and CNN Türk have reported.

The new prime minister of the Turkish Cypriot community, Hüseyin Özgürgün, said May 4 that his government supported the United Nations-brokered peace talks with the Greek Cypriot community to find a peaceful solution to the over-forty-year conflict. 

Two Turkish Cypriot political parties announced on April 15 that they are set to form a new coalition government, in the wake of the last government's collapse earlier this month.

National Unity Party (UBP) Chairman Hüseyin Özgürgün said he has signed a protocol to form a new coalition with Serdar Denkta?, chair of the Democratic Party-National Forces (DP-UG).