President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan spoke by phone to the AK Party Nevşehir Provincial Presidency meeting attended by the Minister of Justice Akın Gürlek and said, “I express my satisfaction at having announced such a brother from Nevşehir as the Minister.” he said. Minister of Justice Gürlek visited AK Party Nevşehir Provincial Headquarters. President Erdoğan addressed party members from Minister Gürlek’s phone. Erdoğan said: “I greet you with the most heartfelt feelings in such a meaningful program. Have a blessed Ramadan. May your future be bright. I would like to express my pleasure in having such a brother from Nevşehir as the Minister after more than 30 years. I wish good luck to our Nevşehir and our country. May your unity and solidarity be eternal.” Minister Akın Gürlek thanked President Erdoğan for his address.

NEVŞEHİR’S BIGGEST PROBLEM

In his speech at the meeting, Minister Gürlek said: “The biggest problem of Nevşehir is the ring road problem. We met with our Minister of Transport yesterday on this issue. Hopefully, the tender will be announced later this month. The tender will start in a short time. Hopefully, the ring road problem will be solved.” Minister Gürlek stated that they are planning to open the courthouse in line with the demands from Acıgöl. Stating that the AK Party government has carried the country further in 23 years and that these developments should be crowned with the new constitution, Gürlek said, “Turkey has now come to the playmaker model. This shirt is now too small for us. Hopefully, we will crown this process with the new Constitution. If we are united, if we are together, if we walk on the same path in the law of brotherhood, there is nothing we cannot achieve as the whole of Türkiye.” –

A total of 41 criminals, who were wanted at international and national levels by the General Directorate of Security Interpol-Europol Department, Ministry of Justice officials, KOM, Intelligence and Narcotic Crimes Departments, Cyber, Public Order and Counter-Terrorism Departments, were caught in 10 different countries, including Georgia (27), Bulgaria (5), Germany (2), Albania, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Iraq, United Kingdom, Montenegro and Slovenia. 23 people wanted on an international red notice were caught and sent to Türkiye.

“WE FOLLOWED THE TRACE METICULOUSLY”

Making a statement on the subject, the Ministry of Internal Affairs said, “The EGM Interpol-Europol Department, Ministry of Justice officials, KOM, Intelligence and Anti-Narcotic Crimes Departments, Cyber, Public Order and Counter-Terrorism Departments, meticulously tracked down the individuals who fled abroad and for whom a search warrant was issued. With the joint cooperation with the law enforcement units of the relevant countries, the captured individuals were extradited to our country. We congratulate our Department Heads and heroic police officers who contributed.”

Minister of Internal Affairs Mustafa Çiftçi stated that in the fight against crime in 2026, a comprehensive and determined fight will be carried out, especially against new generation criminal gangs, money laundering, illegal gambling, virtual betting organizations and narcotic crimes. In his evaluation to Sabah Newspaper News Coordinator Abdurrahman Şimşek and A Haber Special News Chief Mehmet Karataş, Minister of Internal Affairs Mustafa Çiftçi stated that the fight against money laundering, illegal gambling and virtual betting organizations will be among the top priority issues. Çiftçi said that efforts to cut off the financial resources of criminal organizations will be increased and the technological capacity of security units will be strengthened.

NO PASSAGE TO VIRTUAL BETTING

Minister Çiftçi also pointed out that crime methods have changed with digitalization and stated that a new fight concept will be implemented against cyber crimes, virtual betting organizations and financial crimes. Referring to his position as Governor of Erzurum, Minister Çiftçi stated that there has been a significant decrease in cyber crimes, narcotic crimes, public order incidents and virtual betting crimes and said, “Thanks to the effective combat model we implemented in Erzurum, we have achieved a serious decrease in crime rates. We will spread this success to the whole of Türkiye.” Representing Turkuvaz Media, Sabah Newspaper News Coordinator Abdurrahman Şimşek and A Haber Special News Chief Mehmet Karataş visited the Minister of Internal Affairs Mustafa Çiftçi in his office and expressed their best wishes for his new position.

A new milestone has been achieved in the Terror-Free Türkiye goal, which was put forward by the state as a declaration of will. Öcalan published a message a year ago and called on the terrorist organization PKK to “dissolve the organization and lay down its arms.” Heeding this call, the terrorist organization decided to dissolve itself and began to lay down its weapons. Abdullah Öcalan published a new message on the first anniversary of February 27, when he called on the PKK to “disarm and dissolve”. Öcalan stated that the era of violence-based politics is over and said, “There can be no Turks without Kurds, no Kurds without Turks. Now is the period of positive construction.”

IT STARTED WITH THANKS

The highlights of Öcalan’s message, which thanked President Erdoğan and Bahçeli, are as follows:

MENTAL PEACE WITH THE REPUBLIC: We managed to overcome the negative rebellion period with a basically unilateral will and practice. The organization’s decisions to disband and put an end to its armed struggle strategy demonstrated not only officially and de facto but also mental purification from violence and a preference for politics. This is also a declaration of mental peace with the republic.

WE MUST MOVE TO THE POSITIVE CONSTRUCTION PHASE: Now we must move from the negative phase to the positive construction phase. The door is opening to a new era of politics and strategy. We aim to close the era of violent politics and open a process based on democratic society and law, and we invite everyone to create opportunities and take responsibility in this direction.

THERE IS NO TURK WITHOUT A TURK, THERE IS NO TURK WITHOUT A KURD: There is no Turk without a Kurd, there is no Kurd without a Turk. This relationship dialectic has a historical specificity. The basic texts in the founding process of the Republic expressed Turkish and Kurdish unity. Our February 27 call is an attempt to revive this spirit of unity and a demand for a democratic republic.

WE ARE REMOVING THE OBSTACLES OF BROTHERHOOD: We are removing the obstacles to brotherhood, which has been tried to be reversed in the last two centuries, and we are doing what is required by the law of brotherhood.

AS IMPORTANT AS THE BEGINNING: Democratic integration is at least as important as the beginning of the republic. At its core is the democratic society model. The transition to democratic integration requires peace laws. Citizenship relations should be established on the basis of ties with the state, not on belonging to the nation.

CALL TO THE ENTIRE MIDDLE EAST: Our call aims to find a solution to the problem of living together and the crisis it creates, not only in Türkiye but also in the Middle East.

HE PREVIOUSLY SAID THERE ARE NO SEPARATE NATIONS AND FEDERATIONS

In his message last year, Öcalan stated that in this historical process, the terrorist organization should dissolve itself and lay down its arms. Öcalan underlined that there were no expectations for a federation and a separate state, saying, “Separate nation-state, federation, administrative autonomy and culturalist solutions, which are the necessary consequences of the extreme nationalist drift, cannot be an answer to the sociology of historical society.”

Citizens living in Yuvaköy Cluster Houses in Ankara’s Yenimahalle district reacted to the municipalities by stating that no solution could be found to the garbage collection and road problems. Citizens living in Yenimahalle Yuvaköy Cluster Houses, where the garbage has not been collected for 10 days and who have been suffering due to bad roads for 3 months, told SABAH about their rebellion. Stating that the garbage accumulated around the site has now reached the overflow point, Dingiz said, “Our garbage has not been collected for 10 days. The surrounding area is filthy. Not only me, but the entire building was searched.”

Every time we call, they say ‘Okay sir, the team is being directed’, but no one comes or goes. “The garbage is overflowing, dirt is entering the site,” he said. Dingiz claimed that they contacted both Yenimahalle Municipality and Ankara Metropolitan Municipality regarding the issue, but no concrete steps were taken.

LIKE A MOLE HAIR

Stating that the problem experienced in the neighborhood is not limited to the garbage collection service, Dingiz stated that the road to the site has also been broken for months. “Our road has been like a molehill for 3 months. I keep calling, they say ‘Request has been created’ but there is no other development. My car’s tire burst 3 times on this road,” he said. Dingiz said, “As a building, we tried to rent a bulldozer and fix the road a little. But this is a temporary solution. When it rains, the road becomes full of holes again. I have been applying for 3 months, but no one came and asked ‘What is the problem?’ He did not conduct an on-site inspection. “There is serious negligence,” he said.

The TCG Anatolian UAV ship and other warships belonging to the Turkish Navy, which anchored in the Port of Rotterdam within the scope of NATO’s Steadfast Dart exercise, were widely covered in the Dutch press. The 232-meter-long TCG Anatolian SİHA ship, which anchored in the Port of Rotterdam on February 26 with its 3 warships, was announced to its readers by the Dutch media as an “impressive sight”. Algemeen Dagblad, in its news titled “Impressive image: 4 ships of the Turkish navy, in the Port of Rotterdam”, stated that the ships were visibly anchored in the center of the city, right next to the Erasmus Bridge. Rodi news website gave detailed information about the Istanbul and Oruçreis frigates, the supply ship Derya, and the amphibious assault ship/drone and helicopter ship TCG Anadolu, which it described as “the largest”. It was seen in their social media posts that many Turks and Dutch people living in the Netherlands went to the Port of Rotterdam to see the ships and took photos with Turkish flags, especially next to TCG Anadolu.

LETTER SURPRISE FOR COMMANDERS

The crew of the TCG Anadolu ship met at the Port of Rotterdam with letters full of pride and longing from little hearts in Türkiye. Türkiye’s Ambassador to the Hague, Fatma Ceren Yazgan, delivered the letters written by students in Izmir’s Foça district to the Anatolian Turkish Naval Task Force to Amphibious Task Group Commander Rear Admiral Mevlüt Savaş Bilican. In the letters, the messages and drawings of the students’ trust, pride and support for the Turkish soldiers attracted attention.