The plane was leased from Russia to help contain wildfires.

In the wake of forest fires raging across southern Turkey and amid the floods in the Black Sea, Erdoğan has issued a Presidential decision foreseeing an aid campaign. Several social media users have criticized the move under the hashtag #iban.

Protesting the Dicle Electricity Distribution Inc. (DEDAŞ) over constant power cuts and high electricity bills, 18 farmers have been taken into custody by the gendarmerie in Turkey’s southeastern province of Urfa.

Having protested in front of the Yazaki Factory in Bursa for 43 days after being dismissed from her job “due to her low performance” in June 2017, Dilek Gültekin has won her lawsuit for damages and reinstatement.

Losing his life in a mortar attack in Iraq’s north, soldier Hakan Bali joined the “Operation Claw-Lightning” after taking leave and getting engaged last week.

Bringing the access blocks to 141 bianet news articles, including its male violence monitoring reports, into Parliamentary agenda, HDP MP Ersoy has asked a series of questions to ministers of justice and family and to the vice president.

In two separate trials, the administrative courts have given decisions of stay of execution for Muğla’s Akbelen forest, where the villagers and life defenders are struggling against LİMAK Holding’s efforts to expand a lignite mine for a thermal power plant.

A lawyer was penalized for writing “...the father has the disposition of a liar and fraud” in a petition during the custody case after he lied to his children that their mother had died. The Constitutional Court has concluded that it is within freedom of expression.

Addressing artists in a live broadcast, President and AKP Chair Erdoğan said, "Snap election, the presidential system is not right and all... Leave it be, it is our job. You wouldn't understand it." Several artists have denounced these remarks on social media.

The president was mocked on Twitter after it was seen that he was reading answers from a teleprompter and his aides were whispering suggestions at him.

Deputy Interior Minister İnce has announced that 318 people in Bartın, 210 people in Kastamonu and 106 people in Sinop have been evacuated by helicopters and vehicles.

HDP Spokesperson Ebru Günay has said that the perpetrators who attack Kurds are protected and that the government is hostile to Kurds.