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Kurdish issue-focused Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Istanbul MP and deputy parliament speaker Pervin Buldan was released on Dec. 23 after briefly testifying to a prosecutor in Istanbul, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

Buldan was detained by the police at her residence in Istanbul in the early hours of the morning.  

Heavy snow has begun to fall as temperatures hit early winter lows in eastern Turkey, hitting daily life for many locals. 

A passenger who missed a plane made a fake bomb attack notice in order to make the plane heading to Istanbul return to the eastern province of Iğdır on Oct. 8.

The passenger, identified only as Tamer B., called the police and told them that "there was a bomb on the plane." The Turkish Airlines plane returned to the airport in Iğdır upon Tamer B.'s notice, Doğan News Agency reported. 

The continued rule of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) endangers the existence of Turkey as a country and will lead to a chaos, the co-chair of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), Selahattin Demirtaş, has said.

The continued rule of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) endangers the existence of Turkey as a country, as it will lead to a chaos, the co-chair of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), Selahattin Demirtaş, has argued.