The two rivals in the İstanbul repeat election took a "family picture" with their wives and children after last night's TV debate.

Main opposition CHP’s İstanbul Metropolitan Mayoral candidate Ekrem İmamoğlu and ruling AKP’s candidate Binali Yıldırım have answered the questions of moderator Küçükkaya in a live TV program ahead of İstanbul repeat elections on June 23.

The ECtHR has requested Turkey’s defense in the case of journalist İdris Sayılğan, thereby requesting defense in a lawsuit filed against a journalist working in the Kurdish media for the first time since the coup attempt on July 15, 2016.

Speaking about Turkey’s purchase of S-400 defense missile system from Russia, Minister of Foreign Affairs Çavuşoğlu has said, “Russia’s offer was the most suitable one, both technologically and financially. Thus, we decided to purchase it.”

Journalist Can Dündar has been living in Germany because facing life sentence in Turkey, and his wife Dilek Dündar's passport has been confiscated by authorities.

The PKK's imprisoned leader has made remarks on the prison hunger strikes and the HDP's role in Turkey's politics in his meeting with his attorneys.

Imprisoned yesterday for having insulted the then Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in 2010, daily Yeniçağ columnist Yavuz Selim Demirağ has been released. Speaking to bianet, Demirağ has said, “Anything can happen at any time in Turkey.”

Journalists Karakaya and Yalınkılıç reported on the economic crisis in 2018. Now they and 36 others, including journalists and economists, who commented on the article face jail terms for "trying to weaken the economic order and stability of the state."

Then Governor Güler said they did not threaten Dink, the intelligence body did not respond to a request by the court for its personnel to testify, case files of nine defendants were separated in the 26th session of the case.

The parliamentary inquiry into the suspicious death of 11-year-old Rabia Naz Vatan submitted by HDP Group to Parliament has been rejected by the votes of AKP and MHP.

Noemi Levy Aksu has been sentenced to 2 years, 6 months in prison without deferment. Şenay Çınar and Belin Benezra have been each sentenced to 15 months in prison; the announcement of their verdicts has been deferred.

After the Supreme Election Council has filed a criminal complaint against district election council chairs in İstanbul for forming the balloting committees in an unlawful manner, the Council of Judges and Prosecutors has launched an investigation.

The governor has not allowed the Pride Parade in İstanbul to take place since 2015.

Submitting a parliamentary question regarding the cases of insulting the President, HDP MP Danış Beştaş has referred to a citizen who was sentenced to 2 years, 4 months in prison for saying, “Forget about the gasoline, we have the most expensive President.”

Çavuşoğlu has said, "No one can give an ultimatum to Turkey. Turkey has purchased the S-400 defense system from Russia, as our President said," in a joint press conference with his counterpart from France.

Etkin News Agency (ETHA) editor Semiha Şahin and reporter Pınar Gayıp, who have been arrested pending trial for 14 months, have been released to house arrest. Their next hearing will he held on October 15, 2019.

150 thousand people have so far signed the project run by Greenpeace Mediterranean to ban single-use plastics in Turkey. The EU signed the agreement introducing an EU-wide ban on single-use plastics on December 20, 2018.

"They staged a coup in İstanbul. Every single vote is very valuable. One vote sets fascism back," Buldan said.

Journalist Yavuz Selim Demirağ, who was assaulted in front of his house on May 10, will be imprisoned today to serve his 11-month prison term for allegedly insulting the then Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in 2010.

Pointing out to his party's majority in the municipal councils of İstanbul and Ankara, the President has said, "When you don't do a right thing, they will of course won't let you work. If you do a right thing, they let you work."