The budget of the Interior Ministry and its affiliated institutions has increased by 300 percent in 7 years. The 2022 budget talks were marked by tension as Minister Soylu didn’t respond to the allegations about himself and targeted the opposition.

AKP Vice Chair Ali İhsan Yavuz has said, “The possibility of a snap election is not the case in Turkey. Is it possible now? Theoretically, it is always possible but there is no reason for it." He has announced that the election will be held on June 18, 2023.

In their statement, the lawyers of the Kobanî case say, “We call on all bar associations to support us and help us to speak out and fight against the increasing threats and attacks perpetrated on defence lawyers and the legal profession.”

Jailed politician Demirtaş has noted that the country is being very poorly governed and the only way out is snap elections: “The most urgent thing to do is to call for elections and to teach a lesson at the ballot box to those who have sold the country.”

The prosecutor’s office has appealed against the acquittal of Turkish Medical Association (TTB) High Honorary Board member Dr. Şeyhmus Gökalp.

Having spent 80 days behind bars based on an informant’s statements, Dr. Şeyhmus Gökalp has been acquitted of “terror” charges in the trial where he was facing 7 to 15 years in prison.

The exchange rate of the US dollar has surpassed 11 against the Turkish lira. The opposition questions the sharp decrease just before the announcement of the policy rate decision.

The ruling AKP has targeted the HDP over the families sitting in tents in front of the HDP offices, alleging that their children were taken to the mountains. HDP’s Danış-Beştaş has reminded the AKP of how Deniz Poyraz was killed in the HDP İzmir office.

Dismissed by Naci İnci, the appointed rector of Boğaziçi, academic and documentary filmmaker Can Candan was invited to attend a course where his film Duvarlar-Mauern-Walls would be screened. Candan was not allowed to enter the campus again.

60 bar associations across Turkey have expressed solidarity with Deniz Gümüşel, who was briefly detained for protesting that the company operating Yeniköy-Kemerköy thermal power plants sponsored the Olive Harvesting Festival in Muğla’s Milas.

HDP Spokesperson Günay has said that “Erdoğan and his cabinet should admit that they cannot govern the country and they won’t be able to do so in the current situation and they should initiate an electoral process.”

Main opposition CHP Vice Chair Biçer Karaca addressed the General Assembly of the Parliament and talked about the Şenyaşar family, whose three members were killed in an attack by the relatives of a ruling AKP MP in Urfa.

In the trial over the cartoon on the cover page of France-based weekly satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, the first hearing was held in the absence of defendants at the Ankara 2nd Criminal Court of First Instance today, on November 18, 2021.

Politicians and political scientists commented on the president's recent statement that Turkey would be dragged into chaos if the opposition wins the next election.

Minister of Education Özer says, “During the pandemic, there were losses of learning in all grades in the course of distance learning.”

Main opposition CHP Chair Kılıçdaroğlu and İYİ Party Chair Akşener held a joint press conference and urged President and AKP Chair Erdoğan to call elections immediately.

The HDP has stated that there is an organized spoliation of evidence in the investigation into the deadly armed attack that claimed the life of Deniz Poyraz in the HDP İzmir office and the trial has been based on this.

Lawyer Topalkara said, “The prosecutor who lodged the indictment of this case is convicted of FETÖ/PDY-related charges and sentenced to aggravated life imprisonment. You are holding the trial based on an indictment lodged by a criminal.”

The earthquakes caused no casualties or material damage according to initial findings.

The president has signaled a new interest rate cut ahead of the Central Bank meeting.