Electoral districts of Turkey

The Constitutional Court has denied the individual applications of two former Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) lawmakers appealing for the reversal of a parliamentary ruling that removed their status as MPs.

The general assembly of the Constitutional Court unanimously rejected the individual application of Faysal Sarıyıldız and Tuğba Hezer on Sept. 7.

Council of Europe Group of the Unified European Left Chairman Tiny Kox on Aug. 25 sent a letter to Turkish Parliament Spokesperson İsmail Kahraman urging "respect" for the rights of elected lawmakers currently in prison.

The opposition Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) started on Aug. 15 its "justice and conscience watch" in the Aegean province of İzmir, after holding the watch in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır, Istanbul, and the eastern province of Van, Doğan News Agency has reported.

Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Parti) celebrates its 16th anniversary in Ankara today, Aug. 14.

I was there when the party was founded by former Istanbul mayor Tayyip Erdoğan as an offspring of the Islamic-conservative Milli Görüş movement led by Necmettin Erbakan.

A court has postponed to Nov. 6 the hearing of the case into the raid on the Doğan Media Center in Istanbul on the night of last year's failed coup attempt.

Istanbul police apprehended on Aug. 9 a man who stabbed two of his sons to death and wounded the third early in the morning. 

The man, identified as Aslan Güleryüz, reportedly engaged in a brawl with his three sons at their residence in the Yavuztürk neighborhood of the Üsküdar district. 

Two former soldiers who had conducted a raid on the Doğan Media Center in the Bağcılar district of Istanbul on the night of last year's failed coup attempt have claimed that they had surrounded the building after having been given an order of a potential "terror attack" targeting the complex.

The main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) is planning to invite all fractions of the society to its "justice congress" set to be held in the western province of Çanakkale between Aug. 26 and 30. 

A court in the Central Anatolian province of Eskişehir has ordered the arrest of three suspects for the armed assault attempt targeting Eskişehir Mayor Yılmaz Büyükerşen on July 29.

Earlier, five suspects had been referred to court over the attempted attack.

The opposition Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) has started its "conscience and justice watch" in Istanbul's Kadıköy district with the participation of several lawmakers. 

The Kurdish issue-focused HDP started its watch on Aug. 1 in Kadıköy's Yoğurtçu Park after spending a week in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır.