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Former AKP Vice Chair and former HDP Mersin MP Dengir Mir Mehmet Fırat has lost his life at the age of 76. Fırat was receiving treatment for lung cancer.

Three political parties nomitaded their candidates as Turkish Parliamentary Speaker: Deniz Baykal from CHP, Ekmelettin İhsanoğlu from MHP and Dengir Mir Mehmet Fırat from HDP.

Gerger Fırat newspaper owner Boğatekin faces a Tl 10,000 (€ 5,000) compensation claim filed by AKP Deputy Fırat. The court rejected the defence lawyer's request for a new expert report. The trial was postponed to 30 June.

Dengir Mir Mehmet Fırat, Vice Chairperson of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), has been removed from his position. Abdülkadir Aksu takes over his position.

The Ak Party deputy chairperson Fırat says that Atatürk's revolutions traumatized the society, although he adds that he does not say that the revolutions were god or bad. He blames the media for conducting a psychological warfare.