Deniz Zeyrek

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, with almost unprecedented political agility, has somehow finally transformed himself into an opposition leader who actually sets the agenda. 

The man Russian police believe was the suicide bomber who killed 14 people in a blast on the St. Petersburg metro this week developed an interest in Islam and soon after travelled to Turkey, two people who know him told Reuters.

Astute daily Hürriyet columnist Deniz Zeyrek wondered in a recent column whether Russia is inviolable for Turkey. He listed the things that Ankara should be blasting Moscow for but is not. 

The Ankara bureau chief of CNN Türk, Hande Fırat, has been appointed as the new Ankara bureau chief of daily Hürriyet, replacing Deniz Zeyrek who had been serving as the Ankara representative since late 2013. 

Fırat had been serving as CNN Türk's bureau chief since 2010. 

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu was on his way to Moscow to meet with his Russian and Iranian counterparts to discuss Syria, as Russian Ambassador to Ankara Andrey Karlov was shot dead in Ankara on Dec. 19, Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman Hüseyin Müftüoğlu confirmed to the Hürriyet Daily News. 

A Turkish soldier has been killed by gunfire from across the Syrian border, triggering what was described as the first gunfight between Turkey's army and Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants.

Here are the updates as they were posted:

Daily Hürriyet has published an editorial, addressing the continued criticism of Turkish President Erdo?an and Prime Minister Davuto?lu for its recent publications about the death sentence meted out to Egypt?s former elected president and the March 31 killing of Prosecutor Mehmet Selim Kiraz.

On Jan. 20, parliament voted on whether to send four former ministers to the Supreme Council to be put on trial on charges of corruption and graft. Three opposition parties, along with around 40 ruling party lawmakers, voted in favor of sending them to the court, but they failed to provide the necessary 276 votes.