Serhat Albayrak, the brother of President Erdoğan's son-in-law, had sued Prof. Akdeniz for sharing a court order banning a news article about his offshore accounts in Malta.

The National Security Council does not have the authority to determine whether a group is acting against national security, the top court has ruled.

Prosecutors and the police do nothing about cocaine smugglers who "have photos with ministers," the exiled mob boss has claimed.

Police have intervened against the students staying the night at parks in different cities across the country in protest against the high dormitory fees and house rents. Students have been taken out of the parks; some students have been detained.

The Court of Cassation has reversed the prison sentence of journalist Aziz Oruç, who was sentenced to 6 years, 3 months over a protest that he joined as a student.

The lawyers of jailed PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan have released a statement amid recent debates on “who the interlocutor is in resolving the Kurdish question.”

More than 6,200 parliamentary questions were not answered and only 50 of the motions for parliamentary inquiries were accepted in the last legislative session, according to a new report.

Arrested pending trial as part of the retrial over the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK), former HDP Diyarbakır MP Çağlar Demirel has been released.

CHP Chair Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has responded to MHP Chair Bahçeli, who said, “There is no Kurdish issue”: “Yes, there is an issue. Where will this issue be resolved? At the Parliament. This is so loud and clear.”

Amid debates on “interlocutors in resolving the Kurdish question”, HDP Co-Chair Sancar reiterates that the place to resolve it is the Parliament, noting that “bringing the role of İmralı and HDP up against each other makes it harder to have a holistic approach.”

In his address to the UN General Assembly, Erdoğan has announced that the Paris Climate Agreement will be submitted to the Parliament to be ratified next month and that “Turkey has neither the means nor patience to meet new immigration waves.”

After the Trabzon 2nd Penal Court of First Instance gave a decision of lack of jurisdiction, the police officers on trial in the Metin Lokumcu case lodged an appeal. With their appeal rejected, the trial will now continue at the Trabzon 2nd Heavy Penal Court.