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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.

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

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.

"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.

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.

Torrential rains hit Urfa and Adıyaman, two cities affected by the February earthquakes.

The Human Rights Association has said that the authorities have transferred hundreds of prisoners in the earthquake regions to prisons in other provinces without informing their families.

Serbay Şenkal was fired from the broadcaster that he had worked for for 10 years.

While the party faces closure, reports suggest that it will compete in the May 14 elections under the Green Left Party.

The president invited the HÜDA PAR to his ruling alliance. The opposition questioned his motives given the party's negligible public support and linked the party to Hizbullah, an armed group responsible for the killing of hundreds of people, including journalists and politicians, in the 1990s.

Nearly 100 taxi drivers and motorcycle couriers were among the detained in an operation into a "home delivery network," according to the interior minister.

Ferhat Çelik was detained at an İstanbul police station, where he had gone to give a statement. He was released later in the day, after giving a statement to the prosecutor's office.

The leaders stressed that a possible closure of the party months into the elections places the Turkey's democracy in dire jeopardy.

The Kurdish issue-focused party, whose decision will be crucial for the outcome of the elections, has not yet declared whether it will nominate a separate candidate or support the opposition bloc in the presidential election.