If Moscow wants its friendship with Ankara to continue after the elections, it should "keep your hands off the state of the Turks," said the opposition candidate.

CHP members were suspicious of a group distributing leaflets in Esenler of İstanbul. They checked and saw that the leaflets being distributed were fake leaflets in the name of their party, and one of the people distributing them was a representative of the pro-government foundation TÜGVA.

A workplace dispute between workers from Turkey in a politically tense environment resulted in the killing of two at the Mercedes factory in Stuttgart. One laid off worker shot two team leaders dead. The suspect was taken into custody, and the police started an investigation.

İstanbul's Recycling Workers Association outlined their action plan for a potential earthquake, which involves repurposing their waste facilities into shelters and proposing their (migrant) companions as unbound strong rescuers and blood donors.

The two major candidates have reacted to İnce's withdrawal from the presidential race three days into Turkey's parliamentary and presidential elections.

27-year-old Fikret says he feels 60 percent Turkish and 40 percent Dutch, and seems to enjoy this mixed identity, while 25-year-old third generation Eda describes the risk of being characterized as a "foreigner' in a Turkish context when "she cannot speak the Turkish language as people in Turkey do."

The former CHP member has been seen as a potential threat to the opposition's chances of defeating President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Sunday's polls.

Esmeray, a candidate for MP under the Worker's Party of Turkey, answered Minister Süleyman Soylu who marks LGBTI+ people as a target, using the "family" concept. "I took a photo with my family, we will share it soon. Soylu should look at that picture carefully."

The opposition candidate's voting rate is above 49 percent while Erdoğan is lagging behind, according to the KONDA poll.

The three-page Turkey report includes President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan targeting LGBTI+s through the "family" concept. The problems of LGBTI+ refugees are also highlighted.

"They cannot refuse to hand over the administration, they will hand it over easily," Kılıçdaroğlu has said.

“Best wishes for the elections. Both the trial and the pleadings ended for me. This case is a political one, and this process will end on May 14," the imprisoned ex-chairperson of the People's Democratic Party told the court in the Kobani case.

YSK ruled that the police and gendarmerie assigned to ballot boxes by the Ministry of Interior will not be able to record the election results in files on the Security and Emergency Coordination Center Presidency page of the Ministry.

The president of the Petroleum Engineers Chamber said, "This figure announced now will become clearer and will be updated as we have more data from the field. It may come down or increase after such updates."

The well-known Kurdish politician, who narrowly avoided a life-threatening traffic accident while on the campaign trail, reflects on her "virtual election campaign," as well as Erdogan's rhetoric and his attacks on the opposition.

The narrow unemployment rate was 10 percent and the broad unemployment rate was 21.8 percent, according to the official statistics.

Launching an online petition, the activists said, "We are suing Turkey for violating our human rights by pursuing a goal that lacks scientific basis and is actually a 'greenhouse gas increase decision'."

A 33-member delegation will be in Turkey between May 12 and 15.

The Kurdish politician convicted of "terror" crimes says she was tortured while being transferred from one prison to another.

While Erdoğan has accused the opposition of being pro-LGBTI+ at almost every election rally, some opposition leaders reproduced hate speech in their responses, rights defenders say.