Arrested on charge of “irregularity and bribery”, Kırklareli Kıyıköy Mayor Ender Sevinç has also been removed from office by the Interior Ministry.

Lawyer Yalçın says, “Though the crime of torture was committed by the police in the video I watched, the Diyarbakır Security Directorate will probe it with regard to discipline, which constitutes an approach protecting the ones who committed this crime.”

With the slogan “We cannot make ends meet”, the Confederation of Public Employees Trade Unions (KESK) will hold a rally in Diyarbakır and İzmir on December 8 and in İstanbul and Ankara on December 19.

The Justice Ministry’s EU-funded project aims to improve the professional skills of candidates in courts and enhance effectiveness of newcomer judges and prosecutors in order to ensure objective, impartial and competent performance.

The Ministry of Health has announced that over 355 thousand tests were conducted, 22,556 people were diagnosed with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and 196 people died of the disease in Turkey in the last 24 hours.

The president had implicitly criticized Lütfi Elvan for opposing his lower interest rate policy, which led the Turkish lira to lose 29 percent in value in a month.

The number of children under judicial control measures has increased from about 900 to nearly 20,000 in a decade, according to official figures.

The president has explained his "new economic model" and the country's "war of economic liberation" as Central Bank intervenes in the market to bring down foreign exchange rates.

While the Governor's Office says the deceased man had resisted the police, there are reports claiming that the incident was an extrajudicial killing.

The teachers in the Kurdish-majority city of Diyarbakır were detained last year in an investigation into the Democratic Society Congress.

The BioNTech company will announce within a week or two whether a new vaccine is needed for the Omicron variant, Minister Koca has said.

"We are refusing the policy of drawing hot money flow with high interest rates," the president has said.