The police surrounded and detained groups of people who were chanting slogans while leaving the event area after the celebrations ended.

The Inter-Parliamentary Union, the global organization of national parliaments, decided to appoint a reporter to observe the Kobani case hearing and to send a delegation to Turkey ahead of the elections in its 146th Assembly held in Bahrein.

The president's announcement comes a week after the trilateral talks resumed.

A 2007 novel by Ahmet Ümit has been deemed "obscene." The novelist criticized the decision on Twitter.

A student gave a Nazi salute after scoring a goal against an İstanbul Jewish high school.

The police surveyed over 31,000 people who faced legal action for drug-related crimes last year.

Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu will be meeting his counterpart Sameh Shoukry on Saturday who visited Turkey on February 27 after the devastating February 6 earthquakes.

Hamdullah Bayram working for Yeni Yaşam newspaper was detained in the scope of the investigation of the eleven correspondents of Mezopotamya Agency and JINNEWS.

AN IPI delegation visited the earthquake region to meet journalists and observe the situation on the ground.

Excavation teams were able to save Bibles and some liturgical materials besides eleven icons in the ruins of the Antakya Greek Orthodox Church that collapsed in the February 6 earthquakes.

Yıldırım was detained in a police raid on his apartment in İstanbul. All questions asked during his interrogation were about his journalism, said Yıldırım's lawyer.

Over 100 of the arrested were contractors and 151 were building inspectors, according to the justice minister.

Sauli Niinistö is to meet President Erdoğan today in the presidential complex in Ankara. Erdoğan is expected to make announcements on the support of Turkey for Finland's NATO membership in the joint press conference to follow.

"While the country needs transparency more than ever before, these decisions to block access to reports once again serve the purpose of preventing criticism against the government's post-earthquake practices," the RSF representative in Turkey has said.

Mayor Yavaş, who is also a vice presidential candidate of the opposition, filed a case against an activist over the controversial disinformation law, which the opposition had promised to abolish.

"It was decided that there was no need for a public inquiry into the related event," says the notification sent seven years later to the journalist who was investigated after reporting a demonstration in Kars.

The Mata workers on strike in Tuzla, İstanbul described bianet their working conditions and their demands.

If the opposition leader takes power, Turkey will seek to mend ties with the EU, Ünal Çeviköz has said.

Extreme rainfall and floods made up 33.6 percent of all events.

Turkey should withdraw all its troops and end support for the armed groups fighting his government forces, Assad has said.