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.

In the application of a couple who could not exchange visits because they are staying in different prisons but on the same campus, the Constitutional Court ruled that the right to respect for family life was violated.

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

Discussions on if Erdoğan can legally run for one more presidential term are not over in Turkey. A former prosecutor at the Court of Cassation posted today on his Twitter account petition samples for those who want to object to Erdoğan's candidacy.

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.

The court sentenced Kasım Güler to a total of 30 years of imprisonment for leading an armed terrorist organization and for keeping guns.

One of the academics has been reinstated while the other four are also expected to return to their positions.

There are about nine million registered voters in the 11 provinces hit by the quakes, which displaced nearly two million people.

Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu announced the updated death toll in the February 6 earthquakes, the number of foreign nationals among them, and the number of dead who could not yet be identified.

Nearly 100 of the arrested people are contractors while 50 suspects have been found to be dead.

To drew attention to the increase in pet food prices, the opposition's presidential candidate released his photographs with Şero, a cat living in his party's headquarters.