"They don't have a presidential candidate, they don't have a strategic goal, they don't have the slightest preparation for the future. They have talked about how to sit around the table for days," the MHP leader has said.

The Forensic Medicine Institution has presented its report regarding ill prisoner Aysel Tuğluk. Finding “mild cognitive impairment”, the report does not have any details about whether Tuğluk is in a medical state to stay in prison.

Germany-based Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) Association has shared the findings of a recent survey: 48 percent of young people say that “they don’t trust the President at all”, nearly 73 percent would live abroad if they had the opportunity.

Journalists Hülya Kılınç, Murat Ağırel and Barış Pehlivan were sent to prison yesterday as the appeals court upheld their prison sentences over their news and articles about the funeral of an intelligence officer who died in Libya.

According to the expert report, the Halilağa Copper Mine and Processing Facility Project to be undertaken by the Cengiz Holding in western Turkey is not suitable for giving a positive Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report.

Put on trial over the incident that happened in a school in Aksaray, the defendant was first given 12 months in prison; this sentence has been reduced to 10 months due to “good conduct” and the pronouncement of the verdict has been deferred.

Chronically ill prisoner Aydın cannot be treated as he does not accept his mouth being searched as a form of body cavity search while being taken to the hospital. His mother has filed a complaint about this practice by also citing the pandemic.

Nine monasteries and churches were included in the temporary list last year.

With their prison sentences upheld by the appeals court, journalists Barış Pehlivan and Hülya Kılınç and columnist Murat Ağırel have been sent to prison.

President Erdoğan said on Saturday that there was no need to "fuss about" soaring bills.

Held in pre-trial detention for “insulting the President”, journalist Sedef Kabaş is now facing up to 12 years, 10 months in prison as the indictment charging her with “insulting the President” and “insulting public officials” has been accepted.

MetroPOLL Executive Sencar notes that while the ruling AKP increased its votes by nearly 3 points thanks to the fluctuations in exchange rates and workers’ pay rises in January, the effects of recent price hikes will be more visible in February.

Turkey’s Constitutional Court President Zühtü Arslan has announced that only in January 2022, nearly 12 thousand individual applications were submitted to the Constitutional Court, noting that “the workload has taken a dramatic dimension”.

Put on trial over her remarks before the hearing of her son and AKP MP İbrahim Halil Yıldız’s elder brother, Emine Şenyaşar has been sentenced to pay a judicial fine corresponding to 265 days. The pronouncement of the verdict has been deferred.

President and AKP Chair Erdoğan addressed a news conference ahead of his 2-day visit to the Gulf country which he had paid a visit as the PM in 2013 the last time.

A Cypriot journalist who spoke with the president of Northern Cyprus has said that he is more concerned about criticisms against him in Turkey than in Cyprus.

“The leaders of six political parties came together yesterday. All hell broke loose on social media after this meeting. Some asked why the HDP was not there. We don’t recognize the ones who don’t recognize us; let it be known,” said HDP Co-Chair Buldan.

The advisory has called on the citizens of Turkey to refrain from traveling to Ukraine's eastern regions if not necessary, adding that they should take necessary precautions for their own personal safety and contact the Kyiv Embassy before their travel.

As part of the investigation launched into the assassination of casino and hotel owner Halil Falyalı in Northern Cyprus, police officers have detained one more person in İstanbul. The number of detained may reportedly increase.

Amid increasing prices and people’s decreasing purchasing power, the Value Added Tax on basic food products has been reduced from 8 to 1 percent. Economists warn that this reduction may not affect the price tags with other costs cited as the reason.