The chairman of Turkey's main opposition party said Thursday that "Operation Ergenekon" was not a process for trial but rather a political showdown, driving the politics and justice into a witch trap.

The adopted motion underlines that past events like genocide should be recognized only after historians carried out a detailed research in all kinds of archives."

Police waged operations in several provinces including Ankara and Istanbul and detained 21 people.

Turkish government submitted to parliament a draft law to move a number of state finance institutions.

Supreme Court of Appeals Chief Prosecutor Abdurrahman Yalçınkaya made a verbal statement yesterday at the Constitutional Court in a closure case he has filed against the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party).

More than 500 Turkish truck drivers stopped their engines at Kapikule border gate inside Turkey to protest Bulgaria that started to charge 271 USD of shipping fee per vehicle for crossing the border.

Turkey's constitutional court is hearing evidence from the country's chief prosecutor in a case which calls for the ruling party to be outlawed for violating the principle of secularism enshrined in the constitution.

Turkey released on Monday a report on countering human trafficking.