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Özgür Özel, a potential contender for the chairmanship of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), has expressed his alignment with Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu to promote a shared vision for change within the party.

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If media outlets of Voice of America, VOA, Euronews and Deutsche Welle, DW, do not apply for a national licence, their websites will be blocked in Turkey, Ilhan Tasci, a board member at RTUK from the main opposition Republican People's Party, warned on Wednesday.

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The BIA Media Monitor 2021 Report said that 35 journalists in Turkey were sentenced to a total of 92 years in prison in 2021.

A Turkish student has been accepted to the Edison Regional Gifted Center, a school for gifted students in the U.S., with a full scholarship, for the first time in history.

In the school's admissions exam, from which only 28 successful students were accepted, 3,500 students competed, while five-year-old Turkish child Eren Akdoğan came first with an IQ of 153.

A court in Istanbul on Jan. 15 ruled to abolish the detention warrant issued in October 2017 against Burak Akbay, the owner of the Sözcü newspaper.

The court also ordered to make an application for a return of the red notice filed against Akbay.

A court in İstanbul on Dec. 27 gave seven journalists from Sözcü newspaper prison sentences for aiding FETÖ, the group which orchestrated the July 15, 2016 defeated coup attempt.

Istanbul's sole botanical garden will be evicted as the 17 decares of land has been allocated to Istanbul's mufti to use as an office, daily Sözcü reported on July 1.

The arrest warrant for the proprietor of Turkish daily Sözcü, Burak Akbay, was extended by a court in Istanbul on May 30. Akbay faces 30 years in jail for terror charges.

İYİ (Good) Party leader Meral Akşener has claimed civilians are receiving weapons training in camps in the Black Sea province of Tokat and the Central Anatolian province of Konya, daily Sözcü reported on Jan. 2.

An Istanbul court on Nov. 8 ordered the release of daily Sözcü reporter Gökmen Ulu during the trial in which he is being tried on terror charges.