In two separate trials, the administrative courts have given decisions of stay of execution for Muğla’s Akbelen forest, where the villagers and life defenders are struggling against LİMAK Holding’s efforts to expand a lignite mine for a thermal power plant.

A lawyer was penalized for writing “...the father has the disposition of a liar and fraud” in a petition during the custody case after he lied to his children that their mother had died. The Constitutional Court has concluded that it is within freedom of expression.

Addressing artists in a live broadcast, President and AKP Chair Erdoğan said, "Snap election, the presidential system is not right and all... Leave it be, it is our job. You wouldn't understand it." Several artists have denounced these remarks on social media.

The president was mocked on Twitter after it was seen that he was reading answers from a teleprompter and his aides were whispering suggestions at him.

Deputy Interior Minister İnce has announced that 318 people in Bartın, 210 people in Kastamonu and 106 people in Sinop have been evacuated by helicopters and vehicles.

HDP Spokesperson Ebru Günay has said that the perpetrators who attack Kurds are protected and that the government is hostile to Kurds.

At its session where CHP’s İlhan Taşçı was voted out of the meeting, Turkey’s media authority RTÜK fined KRT, Fox TV, Habertürk, Halk TV and TELE 1. Fox TV was fined because the reporter said, “The flames are coming so fast, it is like a nightmare…”

HDP's Hatimoğulları has raised concerns that though it has been 9 months since an earthquake hit İzmir, no progress has been made in binding up the wounds. She has addressed a Parliamentary question to the Minister of Environment and Urbanization.

There are about 15 million young people who live in Turkey, including 1.7 million young refugees. Identifying Turkey as their home country, more than 55 percent of young refugees do not want to return to their home country.

With his father and two brothers killed in an attack by the relatives and security guards of a ruling AKP MP in Urfa, Ferit Şenyaşar and his mother Emine Şenyaşar have been seeking justice by staging a sit-in protest in front of the Urfa Courthouse.

Akşener has been targeted for the second time in three months. The president had praised the first attempted attack against her.

While discharged teacher Karataş’s application was rejected by the State of Emergency Commission because “he was affiliated with the organization”, the Ministry of Education says that there are no reports, minutes or documents about this allegation.

Prevented from teaching classes at Boğaziçi University by the appointed acting rector Naci İnci, academic and lawyer Feyzi Erçin has filed two lawsuits, underlining that the administration did not use its discretionary power properly.

CHP Chair Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has won his legal struggle over leaking of information about an alleged profiling kept in the Prime Ministry’s archive to the press.

In addition to losses of life and property, the earthquake in 1999 had a political consequence as well: It showed the incapability of the government and state, serving as a harbinger of the regime change 3 years later. I think fires will have a similar effect.

Erdoğan talks about the forest fires raging across Turkey: “Cattle, sheep or white meat… We will make the payments for them all.” Like the Minister of Forestry, he says that metropolitan municipalities are responsible for the fires in residential areas.

The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has launched an investigation into some social media messages about the fires raging across Turkey, stating that the related posts “tried to degrade the state and government of the Republic of Turkey.”

Four academics from France who have been unable to fulfil the obligation of the Council of Higher Education (YÖK) to know B2 level Turkish for a work and residence permit have left Galatasaray University.

Minister of Environment and Urbanization Kurum has answered the Parliamentary question of main opposition CHP MP Gürer: 5 thousand 45 lawsuits have been filed against the Ministry’s Housing Development Administration (TOKİ) in the last 5 years.

Main opposition CHP Vice Chair Veli Ağbaba has underlined that Turkey’s consumer inflation is higher than 172 countries of the world.