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Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli, an ally of the government, has accused the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) of "playing with fire" after a "democracy march" it began to hold.

Applications to volunteer with the Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) have soared after a series of powerful earthquakes, an official of the country's disaster agency told daily Hürriyet.

One facility in Istanbul's Silivri district has been quarantined after six people were admitted to a hospital over suspicions they were infected with anthrax, following similar cases in Ankara and the eastern province of Sivas during the "Feast of Sacrifice." 

Local residents staged demonstrations against thermal power plant projects planned to be constructed in the Silivri district of Istanbul province and the Çerközköy district of Tekirdağ, Doğan News Agency has reported.

An Istanbul court on April 27 accepted a prosecutor's indictment against 30 former Zaman Media Group employees, including editors and columnists, on charges of possessing links to the movement of U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen, the main suspect in the July 2016 coup attempt.    

Poor infrastructure is to blame for recent electricity cuts across Turkey, Energy Minister Berat Albayrak has said, noting that the government would modernize over 85 percent of the infrastructure for 18 billion Turkish Liras.

The minister said the outmoded and inefficient physical infrastructure had played a huge role in triggering power cuts across Turkey, according to sources. 

The general manager of Emlak Yönetim, a property management company with organic ties to the government?s Housing Development Administration (TOK?), lacks necessary educational credentials and used to work as an attendant for former Minister Erdo?an Bayraktar, daily Cumhuriyet revealed July 10. 

Historical artifacts were discovered during the construction of a wind power plant in Silivri, but the Cultural and Natural Heritage Preservation Board has not declared the area a first-degree archaeological site Turkey's Cultural and Natural Heritage Preservation Board has refused to declare a plot of land in Istanbul's Silivri district as a first-degree archaeological site despite the

Around 18 vehicles were involved in a multiple collision accident on the TEM highway on Feb. 11 in western Istanbul as snowfall in the city and surrounding regions has been continuing.

A group of main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) deputies, under the leadership of CHP deputy chairman Sezgin Tanr?kulu, has applied to the Justice Ministry to visit Hidayet Karaca, the CEO of the Samanyolu Media Group, on Feb. 9.