President Erdoğan has commented on Supreme Election Council’s ruling that the investigated district election council chairs and directors shall be on duty in İstanbul repeat elections: “I think there is a misunderstanding. We appealed to the YSK as a precaution.”

The AKP has appealed against the Supreme Election Council’s ruling that the district election council chairs and directors, who were investigated for forming balloting committees in İstanbul in an unlawful manner, shall also be on duty in repeat elections.

The Supreme Election Council has ruled that the district election council chairs and electoral directors, who were investigated for forming balloting committees in İstanbul in an unlawful manner, shall also be on duty in repeat local elections on June 23.

According to unofficial results, while the district mayoral candidates of the AKP have won the repeat elections in Keskin, Kırıkkale and Yusufeli, Artvin, the candidate of the CHP has won in Honaz, Denizli and that of the DSP in Kesmetepe town in Adıyaman.

NASA worker Serkan Gölge has spoken to Reuters after being released from prison in Turkey: “Unfortunately, I cannot leave the country and go back to the United States. At least, I can say that there is a light at the end of the tunnel.”

The election campaign tent of main opposition CHP has been attacked twice in the district of Büyükçekmece. As CHP Büyükçekmece District Chair Gökbulak has filed a criminal complaint, an investigation has been launched into the incident.

Main opposition CHP’s Group Deputy Chair Özgür Özel has spoken about the “Judicial Reform Strategy” announced by President Erdoğan: “It is one of those days when separation of powers is trampled upon and one-man rule is confirmed.”

Speaking to bianet regarding the Judicial Reform Strategy, rights defender lawyer Eren Keskin has said, “They said zero-tolerance to torture, but we have just met a 5-month pregnant inmate today, who was subjected to naked torture in prison."

President and ruling AKP Chair Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has introduced the Judicial Reform Strategy in a statement for the press. The strategy consist of two basic perspectives, nine aims, 63 objectives and 256 activities.

Responding to the 2019 Progress Report on Turkey released by the EU, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Kaymakçı has said, “Criticisms about the functioning of judiciary cannot be accepted. Important steps are being taken in the field of judiciary.”

In her article entitled “The Gap Between Ayşe and Elif” as part of her “Long Story” article series, Umay Aktaş Salman from the Education Reform Initiative has underlined that the educational expenses of the rich are 23 times higher than those of the poor.

Having explained the annulment of İstanbul elections by saying “Because they stole”, Binali Yıldırım has clarified his point as follows: “I had to, because there was an operation to create a perception. I mean, it is not a legal term, we are aware of that.”

Teachers Nursel Tanrıverdi and Selvi Polat, who were arrested for the fifth time for protesting discharges, have been released again after serving 14 days in prison.

Speaking about the end of hunger strikes and death fasts upon the call of imprisoned PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan, HDP Co-Chair Pervin Buldan has stated that they will wage a struggle to start a new period, a new process.

Sharing the details of their meeting with PKK leader Öcalan in a statement for the press, Asrın Law Bureau has announced that “Öcalan insistently emphasized his call for an end to hunger strikes and death fasts as they have achieved their purpose.”

The court of appeal has upheld the judicial fines imposed on nine defendants and verdicts of acquittal given to 16 defendants in the lawsuit filed into the occupational homicide that claimed the lives of 10 workers at the construction of Torun Center in İstanbul.

Minister of Justice Abdulhamit Gül has stated that “the legal obstacle to Abdullah Öcalan’s meeting with his lawyers has been removed” and added that it has nothing to do with the allegation that a new resolution process will begin.

The Supreme Election Council (YSK) has announced its 250-page justified ruling on the annulment of İstanbul Metropolitan Mayoral elections. We have compiled how legists and politicians have reacted to the ruling of the Council.

Four members of the Supreme Election Council (YSK), namely its Chair Sadi Güven, Cengiz Topraktaş, Kürşat Hamurcu and Yunus Aykın, have expressed dissenting opinion to the justified ruling on annulment of İstanbul Metropolitan Mayoral elections.

The Supreme Election Council (YSK) has announced its justified ruling on the annulment of İstanbul Metropolitan Mayoral elections. The ruling has indicated that “when all objections are taken together, they constitute a justification to annul the elections.”