The İstanbul Metropolitan Municipal Council has convened for the first time after the İstanbul election rerun. Mayor İmamoğlu said, “The budget of the municipality was made by leaning on the central government, thinking that they would not be called to account.”

Though it has been announced that the cutting of trees that started at the METU campus in Ankara earlier today has been halted after negotiations with METU President Verşan Kök, the concrete pouring vehicles have entered the construction site.

Former Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ali Babacan has resigned from the ruling AKP. Babacan, who was among the co-founders of the party, is reportedly preparing to establish a new party with former President Abdullah Gül.

Murat Çetinkaya, the Governor of the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey, has been discharged from office by a Presidential decree. Central Bank former Vice Governor Murat Uysal has been appointed in his place.

The court has ruled that journalists Ahmet Altan and Nazlı Ilıcak did not violate the constitution and acquitted Mehmet Altan.

All the killed people were Syrian citizens in the explosion caused by a bomb, President Erdoğan announced.

HDP’s imprisoned former Co-Chair Selahattin Demirtaş has drawn the charcoal portrait of CHP MP Sezgin Tanrıkulu. Tanrıkulu has shared the picture on Twitter, attaching the note, “It will be the grand memory from this period for me.”

The expert report on the train collision that claimed nine lives has been completed. It said that the State Railways established a traffic control system that does not exist in the "international regulations and the international railroad network."

"We welcome the work that was done. We were also consulted but we also have to see how this will be translated into concrete legislation and the implementation of that," says Christian Berger, the head of the EU Turkey Delegation.

In a visit to the HDP İstanbul organization, İmamoğlu has said, "He is arrested but why? Like everyone, I want to understand this. In this context, I want to state that I side with anyone who is unjustly treated in terms of law."

"We call Minister of Justice Gül, who got lawyers beaten and Minister of Interior Soylu, who got mourning families beaten, to retreat into borders of law."

In the first hearing of the Çorlu train derailment case, the Çorlu 1st Heavy Penal Court has sent the case file to the upper court upon the allegation that “the relatives of the deceased were battered upon the instruction of the court.”

Sharing the answer of Ministry of Youth and Sports to his Parliamentary question, CHP MP Gürer has announced that 45,300 students who applied for accommodation in public dormitories were not provided with accommodation last year.

Given a 59-year prison term over a statement by an anonymous witness who can't describe him, Baran Barış Korkmaz has sent a message from prison.

Speaking at the weekly group meeting of his party, main opposition CHP Chair Kılıçdaroğlu said, “I imprison my political opponent, but I will speak outside. Is this justice? The poor will serve time in prison, is this justice?”

Temelli has said that Trump's word on the Syrian Kurds after his meeting with President Erdoğan "exposed the dirty relations."

"The municipality has a lodgement where 14 families lives in 60 acres of land. Forty security guards work there. With just the expenses of this lodgement, we can build two student dormitories."

Many famous small shops in İstanbul's Beyoğlu district have been shut down in the last few years, giving way to cafes and shopping malls. Mahmut Kundura, a shoemaker known for its custom shoes, has is the last one.

HDP Mardin MP Tuma Çelik has stated that the state channel TRT does not treat all political parties equally and submitted a Parliamentary inquiry, requesting that the impartiality of the channel be investigated.

Trump said he prevented President Erdoğan from "wiping out" the Kurds whom he called "the natural enemies of his or Turkey's."