Süleyman Soylu

An Istanbul court accepted an indictment prepared by a prosecutor against journalist Sedef Kabaş, who was arrested on Jan. 22 on charges of "insulting" President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and two ministers.

A prosecutor's office is seeking up to 11 years and eight months in jail for journalist Sedef Kabaş on charges of "insulting" President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and two ministers.

The Istanbul prosecutor completed the investigation in the case and prepared the indictment against Kabaş, who was arrested last month, over her remarks about the president aired on private broadcaster Tele 1.

Turkish security forces have recovered the bodies of seven more irregular migrants, who froze to death after Greek border guards pushed them back, bringing the number of the fatalities to 19.

Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu said the bodies of 12 irregular migrants were found near the İpsala border crossing between Turkey and Greece without shoes and stripped of their clothes.

Turkey's new Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ on Feb. 2 said that domestic violence and violence against women will continue to be the first item on the agenda that his ministry will tackle.

"I instructed my friends. It is clear what has been done so far. We will work on what we can add to them, how we will take further steps," he said at a meeting on domestic violence.

Turkey's interior minister said on Feb. 2 that authorities have recovered 12 bodies, believed to be those of migrants who froze to death after being pushed back into Turkey, near Turkey's border with Greece.

Turkey's Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu has slammed Greek authorities, claiming that the Greek has thrown three migrants into the Aegean Sea, which resulted in one of the victims' death.

Soylu said on Twitter that two of the migrants were rescued while the other one had died following an incident off the coast of the Çeşme district in Turkey's İzmir province.

Authorities cleared a runway at Istanbul Airport on Jan. 25, allowing limited flights to resume. Flights were suspended on Monday for safety reasons at the airport. Istanbul's second airport, Sabiha Gökcen, was also operating limited services.

Security forces have arrested 17 people, including foreign nationals, for involvement in human trafficking in the eastern province of Van, bordering Iran.

The police conducted nine operations between Jan. 17 and Jan. 23, targeting suspected human traffickers and detained 19 people among them three Afghan and three Iran nationals.

A 4.7-magnitude earthquake which struck the western province of Balıkesir's Dursunbey district on Jan. 22 caused panic among the residents of Turkey's Marmara region, in particular Istanbul.

Security forces eliminated a senior PKK terrorist figure in Turkey's southeastern province of Şanlıurfa, the country's interior minister has said.

Ferhat Tunç, the group's so-called Gap-Rıha regional leader with a code name Rubar, was captured dead as a result of the operation of police intelligence, aviation and special teams, Süleyman Soylu announced on Twitter.