A C-130 evacuation plane, which was headed to Wadi Seidna Air Base in Sudan for evacuation of citizens of Turkey, came under small arms fire. The plane landed safely.

The alliance says the crackdown was intended to affect the results of the dual polls on May 14.

Politicians, journalists and lawyers were detained in raids across Turkey. Several suspects have been released.

Hasan Cemal, Cengiz Çandar, Umur Talu and İrfan Değirmenci, the journalist parliamentary candidates running in the May 14 elections believe that arresting of four journalists in Diyarbakır show that Erdoğan's fear grows as the elections near.

Over the past month, political parties have been the targets of several attacks in anticipation of the upcoming election.

President Erdoğan will attending today's "fuel loading ceremony" via videoconference due to his recent illness.

The ceremony was held for the first nuclear fuel delivery to the Akkuyu plant. President and Justice and Development Party Chairperson Recep Tayyip Erdoğan participated in the ceremony via teleconference.

The Central Bank said it will continue to use all available instruments "until strong indicators point to a permanent fall in inflation."

Ten journalists were among over 120 people who were detained as part of an investigation into Kurdish-linked political parties, journalists, lawyers and artists.

Having submitted their list with a delay of a few minutes, the poll watchers of the Republican People's Party were not approved in Pamukkale. The head of the party in the province stated that they made an objection to the decision and that the judicial process continued.

The group says it obtained nonexhaustive data from an organization monitoring hostilities in Syria that documented 277 individual incidents between October 2015 and April 2023.

Statements could not yet be taken from those who were to give their statements in Kurdish in the Diyarbakır-centered police operations covering 21 provinces. Two detained lawyers who have breastfed babies were released on bail, while the confidentiality order is still in force on the file.