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The crisis that broke out in the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) on April 29 has resulted in the decision to hold an extraordinary party convention, made by the president and the prime minister at their meeting on May 4. 

One soldier was injured when two hand-made explosives placed on a road exploded on April 28 in the Aegean province of Manisa.

The first explosion occurred on a road in the Soma district during the passing of civilian vehicles. No casualties were reported. A second explosion occurred as gendarmerie teams arrived at the scene after the first incident. 

Opinions have continued to differ wildly between the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and opposition parties over the amendment to lift parliament members' immunities, with both sides exchanging accusations and allegations.

The Turkish government has "no worries" regarding the ongoing investigation in the United States against a controversial Iranian-born Turkish businessman Reza Zarrab, Justice Minister Bekir Bozda? has said.

The fifth penal chamber of Turkey's Supreme Court of Appeals ruled on March 23 for an arrest warrant for a public prosecutor who conducted the major Dec. 17, 2013, graft probe and was later dismissed from the profession.

Turkey and China will focus on joint investments and cooperation, said Turkey's Energy and Natural Resources Minister Berat Albayrak currently visiting China. Albayrak met with Director of China National Energy Administration Nur Bekri in Beijing March 23.

A couple of years ago when the popular discourse "Anatolian Lions" was mentioned, one of the first names that came to mind would have been the Boydak family of Kayseri. 

Kurds did not march to Diyarbak?r's Sur district. It was because a population does not march just because some people tell them to "march." It is because a population marches only and only when they are already determined to march. It is because Kurds are not only cross at the state but they are also cross at those who tell them to "march." 

Turkish President Erdo?an has urged prosecutors to take legal action against the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), after it called for a march toward the Sur district in the southeastern city of Diyarbak?r ahead of an entry ban early on March 2.

When Turkey's Constitutional Court made a landmark decision last week to free two imprisoned journalists, everything first looked fine. The two scribes in question, Can Dündar and Erdem Gül, had been in jail for 92 days for a news story they ran months ago exposing that the Turkish National Intelligence Organization (M?T) was shipping weapons to some groups in Syria.