The two countries' relations reached the lowest point at the height of cold war in 1964 when President Johnson threatened Turkey to abandon its plans for intervention in Cyprus otherwise it will not be protected by NATO against a possible Soviet intervention.

The opposition's candidate has promised aid programs for students, children and the poor ahead of the repeat elections for the İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality.

The ruling AKP's Binali Yıldırım and the opposition's Ekrem İmamoğlu will face off on TV ahead of the June 23 repeat elections in an unprecedented debate in the 17-year AKP era.

The administration of Southern Cyprus has issued an arrest warrant against the ones working in Fatih Drill Ship sent to Mediterranean by Turkey and officials of the companies working in cooperation with the Turkish Petroleum Corporation.

Ruling AKP’s İstanbul Metropolitan Mayoral candidate Binali Yıldırım has clarified his Kurdistan remarks: “Kurdistan is a word that was used by Ghazi Mustafa Kemal Atatürk to refer to representatives coming from the region during the struggle of independence.”

The PKK's imprisoned leader has sent a message through his brother, saying, "These deaths severely harmed both their families and me. This is not right."

The President has called his voters to return from their hometowns for the June 23 elections and vowed to protect "the rights of Northern Cypriots in the eastern Mediterranean."

The court has unanimously rejected an application by former military officials Doğan and Çakmak.

The Governor of Ordu province warned İmamoğlu to cut his election rally short and threatened to intervene in if he does not, the opposition's candidate claimed.

As Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor's Office has accepted their requests, families of PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan and three other inmates Hamili Yıldırım, Ömer Hayri Konar and Veysel Aktaş have gone to İmralı Prison for the Ramadan Feast visitation.

Speaking ahead of İstanbul repeat elections on June 23, CHP Chair Kılıçdaroğlu has said, “The rival of Mr. İmamoğlu is not Mr. Yıldırım anymore, but the Supreme Election Council. The impaired balance of justice will be fixed by İstanbulites.”

Minister of Interior Soylu, who went to his hometown Trabzon for the Ramadan Feast, has been protested there by the citizens who chanted the election slogan of CHP’s İstanbul Metropolitan Mayor candidate Ekrem İmamoğlu: “Everything will be fine.”