Mahmut Tanal

With the start of face-to-face education after a year of hiatus due to the pandemic, the price of renting a house in Istanbul is exploding unbelievably, leaving students in a state of turmoil.

Mahmut Tanal, an Istanbul MP from Turkey's main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), has slammed the German customs police for questioning him rigorously and asking him how much money he had despite carrying a diplomatic passport.

An Ankara court on Sept. 14 ordered two teachers, who have been on hunger strike for six months in protest at their dismissal from their jobs, to remain in jail, despite growing alarm over their health.

Neither academic Nuriye Gülmen nor primary school teacher Semih Özakça, were present as their trial on "terror" charges got under way in Ankara.    

The main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) has harshly criticized a recent decision by the Turkish Parliamentary Speaker's Office to pay 71,000 Turkish Liras ($20,000) in compensation to former deputy Merve Kavakçı, who was recently appointed as ambassador to Kuala Lumpur, after her ban from parliament 18 years ago.

An Istanbul court on June 19 rejected an appeal against the jailing of main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) deputy Enis Berberoğlu.

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) lawmaker Mahmut Tanal has said a woman who went to visit her jailed husband at Sincan Prison in Ankara has been detained by police while five of her children were beside her.  

Prosecutors have demanded seven years in jail for two opposition deputies for participating in an "unauthorized" 2014 demonstration to protest the killing of 10 workers in an elevator accident at a construction site in Istanbul. 

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's suggestion that the Treaty of Lausanne, which largely gave Turkey its present borders instead of the rump state envisioned in the Treaty of Sèvres, was "presented as a victory" has drawn an angry reaction from the Republican People's Party (CHP).

The Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office has prepared a summary of proceedings for 12 deputies for violating an article of the rally and demonstration marches law, as well as violating privacy of the trial, as part of the closed-door trial of Cumhuriyet journalists Can Dündar and Erdem Gül in the case of intelligence trucks bound for Syria. 

Police officers forcefully entered the Koza ?pek Holding headquarters in Ankara on Oct. 27 after a court ordered appointment of a trustee panel to the holding.

An Ankara court made the ruling Oct. 26 upon the request of the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office days before the repeat general elections on Nov. 1.