The Green and Left Party issued a statement on the Chornobyl Remembrance Day 37 years after the disaster and said they did not want to nuclear power stations in Akkuyu or Sinop.

The Presidency Communications Director, Fahrettin Altun, made an announcement yesterday evening rejecting claims made related to Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's health. Erdoğan is to join the ceremony in the Akkuyu nuke plant today via teleconference.

Statements could not yet be taken from those who were to give their statements in Kurdish in the Diyarbakır-centered police operations covering 21 provinces. Two detained lawyers who have breastfed babies were released on bail, while the confidentiality order is still in force on the file.

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.

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.

One of the leaders of the industrial actions in the Renault factory in Bursa in 2015 known as the "metal storm," Erhan İmralı is a candidate for MP under the Workers' Party of Turkey in Bursa.

"I would like to say that this is a plain lie" Presidential Spokesperson İbrahim Kalın stated referring to the claims that the government has held talks with Abdullah Öcalan in prison on the İmralı island.

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.

The program broadcast jointly on two TV channels last night was suddenly interrupted while the host was asking a question to President Erdoğan. Erdoğan returned to the program later to state that they had to stop because he had seriously upset his stomach. The President announced today that his daily program was cancelled and thanked everyone wishing him a speedy recovery.