Releasing a statement about the trees cut down in the Mount Ida, the Ministry of Forestry and Agriculture has announced that 13 thousand trees have been cut down, not 195 thousand trees as previously alleged.

According to the statistics announced by the Constitutional Court, while 233 thousand individual applications have been made to the court since September 2012, the Court has ruled for “violation of right to a fair trial” the most in these seven years.

The reservoir of the Ilısu Dam began to be filled with water according to reports from the region. Ercan Ayboğa from the Hasankeyf Initiative told bianet the latest developments.

The Constitutional Court has ruled that the penalization of Academics for Peace on charge of “propagandizing for a terrorist organization” has violated their freedom of expression.

There are 589 MPs in the Parliament and only 102 of them are women. In the last local elections, there were 8.257 mayor candidates and only 652 of them were women, accounting for 7.89 percent of all candidates.

Thirty-seven percent have not heard about the S-400 missiles, Turkey should not receive more Syrian refugees, Azerbaijan is Turkey's closest friend, according to the highlights from Kadir Has University foreign policy survey.

One soldier has lost his life and one soldier has been wounded in a conflict that erupted in Çukurca in Turkey’s southeastern province of Hakkari.

Speaking about the purchase of S-400s from Russia, President Erdoğan has stated, “I hope that the US will act with common sense.” Addressing the interest rate cut of Central Bank, he has said that “it needs to continue gradually till the end of the year.”

Speaking at the workshop on local administrations, main opposition CHP Chair Kılıçdaroğlu has indicated that presidential system has caused economic downturn: “Since the one-man rule was adopted, our growth rate has fallen to 3 per thousand.”

Russia introduced a visa regime for citizens of Turkey after the downing of its fighter plane in November 2015.

Announcing its judgement regarding the requests for annulling five statutory decrees, the Constitutional Court has concluded that “cancelling the passports of the ones whose partners’ passports are cancelled” is against the Constitution.

After the Governorship of İstanbul announced that the Syrians living in the city without being registered there need to return to the cities where they are registered till August 20, Syrians have decided to hold a protest demonstration on July 27.