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Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya has confirmed that only 85 billion Turkish Liras ($2.93 billion) out of the pledged 115 billion liras ($3.96 billion) have been collected for the national "Türkiye One Heart" campaign aimed at providing relief for the earthquake-stricken regions.

Türkiye with its 85 million people will march towards bigger goals in its second century, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said, stressing the outcomes of the May 14 and May 28 polls have shown the Turkish people's commitment to implementing the Century of Türkiye Vision.

İYİ (Good) Party leader Meral Akşener said there were indications for a possible accident in the coal mine in the Amasra district of the northern province of Bartın, "as with many mining disasters before," but necessary precautions were not taken.

The main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Chair Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu criticized the "anti-disinformation regulation," which was published in the Official Gazette, and announced that his party would go to the Supreme Court on Oct. 18 to stop the execution of its article 29.

Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli has criticized some politicians' comments over the mine blast in northern Türkiye, which claimed the lives of 41 workers, for using "calamities" as political agenda for confrontation.

Turkey has achieved a century of progress in democracy and development during the 20 years of the Justice and Development Party's rule (AKP), President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on May 30.

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu on Dec. 6 said the government's 2022 budget submitted to the parliament vote is a "conspiracy budget" and his party will vote against it.

"We will say no to this budget," he said, addressing the parliament during the budget talks.

The Turkish government has decided to remove two fees from consumers' electricity bills that will help millions of households spend less on power annually.

Two fixed payments, one is the TRT (state-run broadcaster) share and the other Energy Fund, will be eliminated from the bills, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced on Nov. 8, following a cabinet meeting.

The number of work pension beneficiaries was 9,659 at the end of June 2021, rising by 132 people, as opposed to the similar period of 2020, according to the centralized data from the National House of Public Pensions (CNPP).

The public servants with the Transport Ministry are very courageous to allot from public funds subsidies for the rail transport of people, on their own responsibility, without an electronic system in place to check what happened to this money, Bogdan Chiritoiu, the chair of the Competition Council, told on Wednesday the conference "Modern and efficient: rolling stock that Romania needs," organi