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The alliance says the crackdown was intended to affect the results of the dual polls on May 14.

Politicians, journalists and lawyers were detained in raids across Turkey. Several suspects have been released.

Over the past month, political parties have been the targets of several attacks in anticipation of the upcoming election.

President Erdoğan will attending today's "fuel loading ceremony" via videoconference due to his recent illness.

The Central Bank said it will continue to use all available instruments "until strong indicators point to a permanent fall in inflation."

Ten journalists were among over 120 people who were detained as part of an investigation into Kurdish-linked political parties, journalists, lawyers and artists.

The group says it obtained nonexhaustive data from an organization monitoring hostilities in Syria that documented 277 individual incidents between October 2015 and April 2023.

Valid overseas votes are distributed proportionally in electoral districts based on the number of voters in Turkey and the percentage of votes received by political parties in those provinces for the parliamentary election.

The suspects are reportedly facing "terror propaganda" charges.

"We woke up one morning and saw that the war had suddenly begun," said one person who had been staying in the country for 20 years.

Accompanied by police officers, the prosecutor ordered all case files and digital materials be seized, including an indictment he had prepared for another case without making copies.

Twenty-five lawyers were among over 120 who were detained in simultaneous raids in 21 cities yesterday.

More than 120 people from political parties, media outlets and lawyers' groups were detained in 21 cities.

Seventeen rights and journalism groups have released a joint statement condemning yesterday's raids where 126 politicians, journalists, lawyers and artists were detained.

President Erdoğan had promised to solve the problem after the May elections.

Members of the groups targeted in the raids and other rights defenders protested the detentions in several cities.

Some 126 people were detained in police raids in 21 cities.

Political parties and journalism and lawyers' groups have reacted to the detention of over 100 people in raids targeting Kurdish-affiliated groups.

The former chair and ten board members of the İzmir Bar Association have been acquitted of "openly insulting religious values."

The indictment has been criticized by lawyers who argue that the prosecutors are trying to let the perpetrators get away with their crimes.