Sezgin Tanr

Reiterating charges against the caretaker government of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) over their intelligence and security failure leading up to the Oct.

Turkey is hosting over 250,000 Syrians at refugee camps coordinated by the Prime Ministry's Disaster and Emergency Management Authority, a senior governmental official has said.

The father of a Syrian toddler whose drowning shocked the world buried his family on Sept. 4, in the war-torn town they originally fled.

His father, Abdullah Kurdi, who has told how his sons "slipped through my hands" when their boat sank in the Aegean Sea, returned home to the Syrian border town of Kobane to lay them to rest.

Republican People's Party (CHP) Istanbul deputy Sezgin Tanr?kulu has given a parliamentary question to Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu, asking whether the ballot papers for the possible forthcoming election will be printed in Slovenia. 

The Republican People's Party (CHP) submitted a motion to the parliament on Aug. 10 for a detailed report on the institutional, administrative, legal and economic factors of work accidents in order to establish a holistic approach to prevent such incidents.

Republican People?s Party (CHP) deputy Sezgin Tanr?kulu has asked the government about the whereabouts of some 6,000 Syrian cars which allegedly disappeared in Turkey, citing claims they could be used for bomb attacks. 

Two major consul generals in Istanbul have taken to Istanbul's famous Istiklal Street to show their support for the LGBTI community in Istanbul during the Istanbul Pride March.

Some 400 academics and artists have expressed in a signed statement their support to daily Cumhuriyet and its editor-in-chief, Can Dündar, as both were subjected to an investigation after the daily picked up a story of trucks belonging to Turkey's top intelligence body which were stopped while allegedly attempting to carry weapons to Syria.

Turkish authorities have launched a probe into a policeman who was filmed while punching a journalist during a May Day demonstration.

The main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) has named an Armenian candidate in the first place on their final candidate list for the upcoming elections on June 7 in a move to prioritize candidates with different backgrounds, according to the media reports.