Bekir Bozdağ

Türkiye's justice minister on Aug. 18 said Sweden's pledge to extradite a Turkish convict fell far short of Stockholm's commitments under a deal paving the way for its NATO membership bid.

NATO member Türkiye is threatening to freeze Sweden's attempts to join the Western defense alliance unless it extradi-tes dozens of people Ankara accuses of "terrorism."

Landlords who seek lucrative income by leasing out their properties particularly to foreigners at excessive rental prices are now facing problems as new tenants either fail to pay rents or leave the flat before the contract expires.

Türkiye renewed its requests for Sweden and Finland to extradite members of "terror groups" on July 6 after the countries reached a deal over the Nordic nations' NATO membership bids, Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ said on July 6.

The elements of deliberately killing with monstrous feelings or causing torment did not exist in the murder of 27-year-old Pınar Gültekin, a local court has stated while announcing the reason behind the reduction of the jail term of the murderer Cemal Metin Avcı in the country's high-profile femicide case.

Gültekin went missing in the southwestern province of Muğla on July 16, 2020.

Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ has joined the public anger by criticizing the "unjust provocation discount" a court has given in the case of Cemal Metin Avcı, the murderer of university student Pınar Gültekin.

Speaking at a conference on the law on June 23, Bozdağ highlighted that the issue of "unjust provocation discount" should be discussed.

The construction cost index increased by 106.6 percent in April from a year earlier, data from the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK) showed.

Construction costs rose by 6.1 percent in April from March.

Buildings in Istanbul. Photo: Pixabay/btastinkaya

According to the new regulation, rent price hikes will be limited to 25 per cent until July 2023.

"Rents can only be increased by 25 per cent. We tried to protect the rights of both tenants and landlords," Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag told reporters before the parliamentary vote on Wednesday.

With a temporary clause to be added to existing law, rent price hikes will be limited to 25 percent, Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ has said.

The government has been working on a solution to curb exorbitant rent increases, especially in the country's large cities, such as Istanbul, Ankara and İzmir.

Consumer prices in Turkey increased by 2.98 percent in May, slowing from the 7.25 percent month-on-month increase recorded in April, according to data from the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK) on June 3.

Authorities are working on a new regulation that would introduce a cap on rent increases, Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ has said.

"The limit in rent hikes will be based on the inflation rate, and this will be a temporary measure," Bozdağ told reporters in the Central Anatolian province of Yozgat.