Turkish government

Four prosecutors and one commander, for whom arrest warrants were issued after their halting of Syria-bound National Intelligence Organization (M?T) trucks in Turkey's south last year, have been detained. 

The Tarsus 2nd High Criminal Court ordered the arrest of four prosecutors, along with a commander who ordered the Syria-bound trucks belonging to M?T to be stopped and searched. 

The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization's (FAO) price index, which measures monthly changes for a basket of cereal, oilseed, dairy, meat and sugar, averaged 171 points in April, 1.2 percent below its reading in March.

High global production, a strong U.S. dollar and cheaper crude oil have helped cap food prices for the past year and the index has been declining since April 2014.

The Turkish Energy Ministry has refused a court?s request to see the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report on the Akkuyu nuclear power plant project in the country?s southern province of Mersin, citing state secret security as the reason. 

Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) head Devlet Bahçeli kick-started his party?s election rallies in the central Anatolian province of Çank?r? on May 6. 

Efforts to demolish Kamp Armen, an Armenian orphanage in Istanbul's Tuzla district that was expropriated in the wake of Turkey's 1980 military coup, began early May 6. 

Turkish Economy Minister Nihat Zeybekci and the EU commissioner for trade will sign a memorandum of understanding next week to draw framework of upgrading the Customs Union, EU Minister Volkan Bozk?r has stated, noting that one provision in the accord will automatically make Turkey part of any free trade agreement deal that the EU signs with a third party.

It has been more than five months since Turkey and Russia announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding to build a new pipeline called the Turkish Stream, which would supply natural gas to some southern European countries after Russian President Vladimir Putin canceled the South Stream project in reaction to the European Union. 

The Council of State has refused an appeal for a stay of execution of an Education Ministry circular allowing the wearing of headscarves at secondary schools in Turkey. 

A new era began in northern Cyprus on April 26 with the election of Mustafa Ak?nc? as president of Turkish Cyprus. Not because Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an slammed Ak?nc? over his description of his country?s relationship with Turkey as ?two equal brothers? instead of ?motherland and babyland,?

Police seized 358 kilograms of heroin, allegedly brought from Iran and worth approximately 9 million Turkish Liras, from a flat in Istanbul's Esenyurt district on April 27.