"Turkey is among a couple of countries that can talk to both the US and Iran, maybe the most important one," the Presidential Spokesperson has said.

Dilek Akarca, who has been unemployed for three years, won three lawsuits against Yalova Municipality but was neither paid not reinstated to her job.

Addressing a Parliamentary question to Minister of Health Fahrettin Koca, HDP İstanbul MP Ersoy has asked the İstanbul Provincial Directorate of Health’s circular order “to get dressed according to manners, customs and belief.”

Main opposition CHP Chair Kılıçdaroğlu’s attorney Celal Çelik has been sued for “insulting the President” over his plea of defense presented to court in the suit for damages filed by President and ruling AKP Chair Erdoğan against Kılıçdaroğlu.

HDP’s imprisoned former Co-Chair Yüksekdağ has been sentenced to pay a judicial fine of 1,740 lira for insulting President and ruling AKP Chair Erdoğan. “There is a power greater than Erdoğan in this country, it is the people”, she said in her last defense.

While High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Borrell has expressed concerns over Turkey’s military deployment to Libya, Head of UN Support Mission in Libya Salamé has said, “Keep your hands off Libya.”

“Engulfing 35 villages, Ilısu dam reservoir has reached Hasankeyf town, which is one of the most important cultural and natural heritage sites of the world”, says Hasankeyf Coordination in a recent statement for the press.

Nineteen-year-old Berfin Özek lost one eye and had burns on her face and chest as a result of the attack.

Charged with “being a member of a terrorist organization”, journalist Barış Polat, a reporter for Mezopotamya Agency, has been sentenced to 6 years, 3 months in prison.

Women lawyers have prepared a report on the process leading to the feminicide of Ayşe Tuba Arslan, who was killed in Eskişehir by her ex-husband despite having filed a criminal complaint against him for 23 times.

Storms and heavy rain have affected transportation in the city since yesterday.

As a result of torrential rains holding out in the city since January 5, the fill rate of water reservoirs in the dams of İstanbul has increased from 39.31 percent to 43.77 percent in a day. Rainfall and storm are expected to continue in the city today.