Ali Çelik

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan visited the Republican People's Party (CHP) headquarters for the first time in 18 years on June 11 to meet with the main opposition leader Özgür Özel.

This visit follows Özel's earlier meeting with Erdoğan at the Justice and Development Party (AKP) headquarters on May 2, marking the first such interaction between the AKP and CHP leaders since 2016.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has backed the dismissal and subsequent prison sentence of Hakkari Mayor Mehmet Sıddık Akış on terrorism-related charges.

The suspended mayor of Hakkari from the Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party), Mehmet Sıddık Akış, has been sentenced to 19 years and six months in prison on terrorism-related charges.

The sentencing concludes a case that has been ongoing since 2014.

Hakkari Mayor Mehmet Sıddık Akış from the Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) has been dismissed from his post following his apprehension as part of an investigation into his alleged ties with the PKK terrorist organization.

Excavation and restoration works will be accelerated this year in the ancient city of Aizanoi, which is home to the best-preserved Zeus Temple in Anatolia and called the "Second Ephesus."

A Turkish national working in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) whose son was hospitalized due to an accident in eastern Turkey requested permission to travel back amid coronavirus travel restrictions.

A former Justice and Development Party (AKP) deputy and two other defendants were arrested late Dec. 14 as part of operations targeting the alleged "parallel state" of sympathizers of U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen.

Efforts to demolish Kamp Armen, an Armenian orphanage in Istanbul's Tuzla district that was expropriated in the wake of Turkey's 1980 military coup, began early May 6. 

A district office of the Diyarbak?r Provincial Education Directorate has controversially released the names and personal information of a total of 872 youths who were involved in crime or subjected to sexual harassment on its website.