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Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has refused to comment on the nomination of Ekmelettin İhsanoğlu as the joint opposition presidential candidate, simply stating that the “most valuable evaluation” will be made by the people in the election.

The Netherlands has given Turkey a list of 100 possible militants who might travel to Syria to fight against regime forces, according to a report by Dutch daily Volkskrant.

Istancool, the annual high-profile International Arts & Culture Festival will be held for the fourth time this year between June 13 and 15 in Istanbul.

Sabancı Holding Retail Chief Haluk Dinçer has been named as the new leader of Turkey’s top business organization a week after the resignation of his predecessor.

Former Chairman Muharrem Yılmaz stepped down from top post of the Turkish Industry and Business Association (TÜSİAD) on June 4 over a labor crisis in his own company, Turkey’s largest dairy producer, Sütaş.

The Turkish government has blacklisted Nigeria’s fundamentalist militant group Boko Haram in line with a U.N. Security Council decision that recently placed the group on the U.N.’s list of terrorist organizations associated with al-Qaeda.

Turkey’s intelligence agency has identified four civil servants as “potential suspects” for the illegal wiretapping of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s office and home.

Some 243 women’s associations grouped under the umbrella of the Platform for the End to Violence have argued a new law currently debated at Parliament will lead to lesser sentences for criminals, instead of toughening them, as was announced by the government.

Turkey’s main opposition party has submitted a motion to launch a parliamentary investigation over the government’s decision to commence the shipment of Kurdish oil to world markets.

Top executives of the main bilateral business association between Turkey and the United States, the Washington-based American-Turkish Council (ATC), announced their resignation June 1 over government pressure in the aftermath of the corruption probe.

Last year, on this very day, hundreds of thousands of Turkish people hit the streets to protest the security forces’ brutal crackdown on environmentalist activists’ peaceful protest against the government’s plans to demolish a symbolic park, Gezi Park, at Istanbul’s historically important Taksim Square.