Official Gazette

The Turkish government maintains security during the June 7 general elections with a total of 404,000 security personnel.

Some 300,000 police officers will be on duty throughout the day, Interior Minister Sebahattin Öztürk said on June 5 in a televised interview, adding that the rest of the personnel will be gendarmerie.

The Turkish government maintains security during the June 7 general elections with a total of 404,000 security personnel.

Some 300,000 police officers will be on duty throughout the day, Interior Minister Sebahattin Öztürk said on June 5 in a televised interview, adding that the rest of the personnel will be gendarmerie.

Mehmet Ali Akben has been appointed the president of Turkey?s banking regulator (BDDK), according to a posting in the Official Gazette on May 15.

The decision to appoint Akben was taken on March 30, according to the report, which did not specify why the announcement was made later. 

Turkey?s Constitutional Court has upheld a law that stipulates a prison sentence for those who store ?oral, anal, group, gay or lesbian? porn on the grounds that they are ?unnatural,? Turkish media reported on April 20.

The recent clash between Turkey?s security forces and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK), which took place in the Eastern Anatolian province of A?r? on April 11, has apparently forced a change in the schedule of Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu?s election rallies ahead of the June 7 parliamentary election. 

The deadline for bids in Turkey's 4G license tender has been set for May 26, the information and communications technologies authority (BTK) said in a statement on April 10.

In the tender, 20 separate frequency segments will be sold at a minimum value of around 2.3 billion euros ($2.45 billion).

As the deadline to submit their candidates in the run-up to the June 7 parliamentary elections nears, political parties in Turkey have been involved in the endeavor of fine-tuning their lists of candidates before the submission deadline.

As the deadline to submit their candidates in the run-up to the June 7 parliamentary elections nears, political parties in Turkey have been involved in the endeavor of fine-tuning their lists of candidates before the submission deadline.

Turkey's telecommunications regulator has set 2.3 billion euros ($2.44 billion) as the minimum price that mobile operators must pay to secure frequency bands for a new 4G network.

Several NGOs ask Prime minister Victor Ponta to resign from office, and the Ombudsman "to challenge the 26-in-1 ordinance" to the Constitutional Court.

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