Prof. Betül Kacar has been admitted to the NASA team created to investigate the traces of life in the universe.

The municipal council of the İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality (İMM) has unanimously agreed to buy horse-driven carriages in Princes’ Islands. The İMM will pay 300,000 lira per carriage and horses will not be used as a means of transport any longer.

Four reporters of the state-owned agency, including a citizen of Turkey, were detained in Cairo on January 14.

The proposal of main opposition CHP and İYİ Party to recognize djemevis as places of worship by the İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality has been rejected by the municipal council members from the ruling AKP and MHP.

Three soldiers have lost their lives in a vehicle bomb attack while they were conducting a road control as part of Operation Peace Spring launched into northern Syria.

Interest rates have fallen by 1,200 basis points since last year.

The ban order came after protests for a university student who has been missing for 12 days.

HDP officials have blamed the government officials' "provocative speech" for the armed attack on the party's office.

An accident during training left two soldiers dead and two wounded, the ministry has announced.

Turkey has condemned the raid, calling on Egypt to release the detained employees.

Minister Çavuşoğlu has addressed a panel in Ankara, making remarks on the crises in Libya and Syria.

Releasing a statement about the armed attack, HDP İstanbul Press Commission has indicated that “seven shots were fired and the person who fired the shots escaped to the Beyoğlu Security Directorate and Governorship on the same street.”

The Prosecutor's Office has considered the newspaper's article containing discriminatory expressions within freedom of expression.

The court has rejected the lawsuit against the Mersin Governorship's ban on 2019 Pride Week, reiterating the same grounds such as “public peace”, “prevention of crimes”, “public health” and “public morality”.

Hakkı Eren and Mert Soydan were released on probation after being detained over hanging a banner.

Speaking about the seizure of municipality’s bank accounts, Dersim Mayor Maçoğlu has said, “The article 15 of the municipal law openly stipulates that the taxes, fees and provincial bank shares of municipalities cannot be confiscated.”

Affiliated with the Metropolitan Municipality of İstanbul, the İstanbul Arts and Vocational Training Center (İSMEK) has started accepting applications for Kurdish lessons. In early December, the Municipality announced that it would hire two Kurdish instructors.

HRW has released its World Report 2020, where it reviews human rights issues in more than 100 countries.

Several publishing houses and bookstores have shared messages of support for “Leylan”, the first novel penned by HDP’s imprisoned former Co-Chair Selahattin Demirtaş.

Akile Salih, the Chair of Libya’s Haftar-allied House of Representatives in Tobruk, has announced that “the ceasefire is over, the war will continue.”