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Turkish authorities have detained 29 people suspected of having ties to militant group Islamic State in operations across nine provinces, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said on Friday.

Suspects captured in "Operation Heroes-37" on Friday were planning to attack churches and synagogues in Istanbul, Yerlikaya said on social media platform X.

Defense Ministry officials have announced the initiation of a comprehensive investigation into the recent attacks in northern Iraq that claimed the lives of 12 Turkish soldiers at the hands of the PKK.

A local court has filed a case against a group of public officials in connection with the 2014 mining disaster in the western province of Manisa's Soma district that claimed the lives of 301 workers.

According to a statement from Some Prosecutor's Office on Dec. 25, the case encompasses 28 public officials identified with negligence in Türkiye's deadliest mining accident.

In the wake of deadly attacks by the PKK that claimed the lives of 12 Turkish soldiers, the Defense Ministry has reported an escalation in retaliation efforts, with the number of terrorists neutralized since rising to 56.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said Canada and the United States were insisting that Ankara ratify Sweden's NATO membership bid before Canada resumes the export of drone cameras to Turkey, the text of an interview with media showed on Friday.

Göktürk-1 satellite has completed 37,378 orbits around the Earth and has captured 82,913 images so far, the Defense Ministry has announced celebrating its seventh year in space.

Göktürk-1 satellite, often hailed as "our eye in the sky" in Türkiye, reached this milestone by circling the Earth uninterruptedly since its launch on Dec. 5, 2016.

The Turkish forces "neutralized" six PKK terrorists in an airstrike on a region in northern Iraq, the Defense Ministry has announced.

The Supreme Court of Appeals has decided to file criminal complaints against members of the Constitutional Court over a profound disagreement on the case of imprisoned Workers' Party of Türkiye (TİP) lawmaker Can Atalay, in a first and unprecedented legal dispute in the history of the Turkish judiciary.

The Republican People's Party (CHP) witnessed a political upheaval at its 38th ordinary congress, as the party's newly elected chairman, Özgür Özel, faced internal dissent from within his own ranks during the election for the party council (PM), the highest executive body of the CHP.

Türkiye's Defense Ministry has confirmed that Turkish forces conducted a targeted airstrike against 19 PKK locations in northern Iraq.