A total of 2,036 individuals were detained in an operation conducted across 78 provinces targeting individuals carrying unlicensed weapons and weapon smugglers.

Anadolu Agency reported the killing as part of Turkey’s retaliation to the recent PKK attacks targeting Turkey’s bases in Iraqi Kurdistan, which resulted in the killing of 21 soldiers over the past three weeks.

Starting today, foreign tourists visiting the 1500-year-old Hagia Sophia will be charged a fee of 25 euros.

Two workers injured in the fire were taken to the hospital.

Sagiv Yehezkel has been excluded from the Antalyaspor squad and is expected to lose his contract.

Gökhan Delen, Serkan Sayın, Hakan Gün, Kemal Batur, Müslüm Özdemir, Emrullah Gülmez, Murat Atar, Ahmet Köroğlu, Muhammed Tunahan Evcin who lost their lives in the PKK attack in the Kurdistan Regional Government region of Iraq were laid to rest in their homelands.

Dilek Hatipoğlu and Nurullah Çiftçi were arrested ad subsequently convicted after a 2015 declaration of "autonomous administration" in the country's Kurdish regions.

Nearly a year after the devastating earthquakes, housing problems persist in the region.

Parliament Speaker Numan Kurtulmuş, in his statement regarding TİP Deputy Can Atalay, said, "We have not sent the letter to the General Assembly so far to avoid further tension between the two judicial authorities and the Parliament."

Nearly 10 people, including detainees, convicts, and military personnel, were injured in the accident.

Hamide Ayaz, who saw her home demolished during the military conflict in 2015, now confronts significant damage to her new house, financed through installments and debts, after the February earthquakes. While awaiting the completion of earthquake-resistant housing, Ayaz laments, "Now, we find ourselves compelled to live unhappily amid these concrete walls until the end of our days."

According to the Turkish Statistical Institute data, the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate increased by 0.4 points, reaching 9 percent.

On the 17th anniversary of Hrant Dink's assassination, the Hrant Dink Foundation will organize discussions to revisit the values he advocated and his struggle.

Both the ruling party an the main opposition party are losing support according to a survey conducted in late December.

The Copper-smiths' Market in Malatya, the foundation of which was laid in the scope of the Ministry's 'In-Situ Transformation' project, has seen no progress for more than 5 months. The water that emerged from the foundation turned into a pond and then a lake.

The DEM Party İstanbul organization, in its rally call for this Sunday, stated, "'While talking about 'our Palestinian cause,' political, economic, commercial, military, and cultural relations with Israel continue. Turkey ranks first in economic partnership with Israel."

The North Rhine-Westphalia Administrative Court in Germany upheld the ban on the use of PKK leader Öcalan's photographs in meetings and demonstrations.

The municipality has implemented substantial fare increases for public transport.

The AKP, incorporating the slogan of the Palestinian struggle, 'from the river to the sea,' in its local election song, had previously acknowledged Jerusalem as the de facto capital of Israel in the 'normalization' agreement signed with Israel on June 28, 2016.

"The ruling power will not be able to halt the freedom struggle of the Kurdish people with detentions and arrests," said the DBP in response to the raids.