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The secretary-general of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, will visit Bosnia early in February, when officials are expected to update him on the improvements the country has made on the path to NATO membership.

The main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) has vowed to take charter changes to the Constitutional Court for annulment as many ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) lawmakers have violated the "secret ballot" principle, a senior party official has said, adding that they would strongly resist in the second round of the voting process expected to commence on Jan. 18. 

The newly-elected president and vice president Rumen Radev and Iliyana Yotova will be sworn in in Parliament on January 19.

The ceremony will start at 10:00 hrs and will be shown live on BNT.

Despite the prediction by Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ that the government bloc will have no difficulty in taking to a referendum on constitutional amendments for a shift to an executive presidential model, unexpected speculations have started between and within the parties at Turkey's parliament, which could change the format of the changes.

An Istanbul prosecutor has sought life sentences for main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) lawmaker Enis Berberoğlu, as well as 10 years in prison for daily Cumhuriyet's former editor-in-chief, Can Dündar, and the daily's Ankara bureau chief, Erdem Gül, over a report on intelligence trucks. 

Debates on the constitutional amendments have started in parliament. Surveys have shown that 36 percent of citizens who will vote in a possible referendum have "no information" about the constitutional change. The rate of those who say they have "very little" knowledge is 28 percent and those who say they have "a little" knowledge total 14 percent. 

President-elect Rumen Radev intends to adhere strictly to the constitution and appoint a caretaker government, disband Parliament and call parliamentary elections shortly after assuming office, showed an announcement circulated by Radev's press office.

Turkey is facing ever-increasing political, economic, social and security problems that are very real, and which require rational approaches that factor in the interests of the country as a whole. 

Bosnia’s Serb-dominated entity of Republika Srpska is staging a lavish celebration of its disputed ‘statehood’ holiday, defying a ban by the Constitutional Court.

The daughter of Choi Soon-Sil, the woman at the center of a corruption scandal that led to the impeachment of South Korea's President, has been arrested in Denmark after months in hiding, Seoul prosecutors said Dec. 2.