Mehmet Ceylan

Six lawmakers from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) have filed criminal complaints against former Chief of General Staff İlker Başbuğ after he said FETÖ, the group behind the 2016 defeated coup attempt, had played a significant role in the adoption of laws in parliament that resulted in several military personnel to serve jail time over a decade ago.

A massive flu epidemic has spread across Turkey, with the Turkish Health Ministry announcing that one in three people is suffering from the disease in the country amid a drop in temperatures.

Locals in the town of Sur in southeastern Diyarbak?r province began to flee their houses on Feb. 3, after a months-long curfew was lifted in nine neighborhoods, where clashes between the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and the Turkish security forces have been ongoing. 

A Chinese tourist was killed and eleven others were injured after two hot-air balloons crashed in Turkey's touristic region of Cappadocia in Central Anatolia on Dec. 17.