The reason for the economic crisis is the presidential system, the İYİ Party leader has argued.

Yusuf Yerkel has been appointed as a commercial attache to Turkey’s Consulate General in Frankfurt amid public backlash for having kicked a miner during the protests following the occupational homicide that claimed the lives of 301 miners in Soma.

Speaking to bianet about the memorandum of understanding signed by six opposition parties, academic and politician Nesrin Nas says, “It will not solve all problems of Turkey, but it is a new ground for social reconciliation.”

Minister of Education Özer has expressed determination to continue in-class education in the second half of the school year, announcing that the rate of teachers who have received at least three doses of a COVID-19 vaccine is 53 percent.

Turkey’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has announced that over 8 thousand people, mostly citizens of Turkey, have been evacuated from Ukraine amid ongoing invasion of Russia since February 24.

Main opposition CHP Chair Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu said, “On which law is the security summit based? Is there any legal basis for the security summit? I don’t remember such an institution. The National Security Council should have been convened.”

Before the expert examination to be held for a coal mine attempted to be run in Akbelen Forest in İkizköy, the mining regulation has been amended. The amendment has made way for mining activities in olive groves.

Making another application to the Supreme Election Council (YSK), the People's Liberation Party has referred to the debates on Erdoğan’s university diploma and requested that his application to run for President not be accepted.

HDP Diyarbakır MP Semra Güzel has been stripped of her legislative immunity in a vote taken at the General Assembly of the Parliament. “For Kurdish people, lifting her immunity means disregarding their will,” said HDP Group Deputy Chair Oluç.

The combined voting rate of four opposition parties exceeds 45 percent, about five points higher than the ruling alliance, according to MetroPoll.

The Welfare Party, the Islamist predecessor of Erdoğan's AKP, lost the power amid pressures by the military in 1997.

Ministers of foreign affairs and defense talked over the phone with their counterparts from Ukraine and Russia, respectively.

The memorandum of understanding signed by the CHP, İYİ Party, Felicity Party, Democrat Party, Future Party and DEVA Party covers a wide range of issues from ending the Presidential System to reducing the electoral threshold from 10 to 3 percent.

At the 10th hearing of the Kobanî trial, the lawyer of Kurdish politician and ill prisoner Aysel Tuğluk talked about her health and demanded her release.

85 international rights and press freedom organizations, including the Media and Law Studies Association (MLSA) from Turkey, have released a joint statement amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: "We unilaterally condemn the violence and aggression."

With their three family members killed in an attack by the relatives and guards of a ruling AKP MP, Emine and Ferit Şenyaşar have applied to the Antep Appeals Court and requested the release of Fadıl Şenyaşar, who has been arrested for 4 years.

Holding their first meeting on January 18, seven political parties met again in Ankara. Making a statement after the meeting, the parties have expressed their support for peace against war, for labor against exploitation and for life against plunder of nature.

Main opposition CHP leader Kılıçdaroğlu said, “We need to heal our wounds because these wounds are still open. Facing and being able to reconcile mean being able to proceed on our path. I have a promise: I will reconcile this country.”

Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Co-Chair Sancar spoke at the 6th Ordinary Congress of the Democratic Regions Party (DBP): “If the existence, freedom and political will of the Kurdish people are under threat, a national unity in the face of this is inevitable”.

Alevi organizations protested compulsory religious education at schools by holding protest demonstrations in İstanbul, Adana, Adıyaman, Antalya, Aydın, Balıkesir, Dersim, Eskişehir, İzmir, Kırklareli, Kayseri, Muğla and Samsun.