🇹🇷⚡- "You took him from his home at dawn, a person who you know will perhaps govern this country in the future. It's nothing but evil," - Selim Imamoglu, son of the Istanbul Mayor who was just detained.

🇹🇷⚡- Mayor of Ankara and member of the opposition party CHP, Mansur Yavas, blasts the Turkish authorities decision to arrest the Istanbul Mayor Imamoglu.

🇹🇷⚡- BREAKING: Arrest warrant issued for Murat Calik, Mayor of Beylikduzu, just west of Istanbul.

🇹🇷 Reuters (Turkey): Istanbul Stock Exchange temporarily halts trading after the main index drops 6.87% in early trading.

🇹🇷 Reuters (Turkey): Turkish lira hits a record low following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu.

🇸🇸⚡- Vice-President led SPLM-IO (White Army) has ordered the Sudanese armed forced, SSPDF, to surrender or withdraw from the Maiwut region, northeast South Sudan.

🇺🇸🇨🇳🇵🇦⚡- "China, Hong Kong threaten to thwart sale of Panama Canal ports to America's BlackRock," - Fox News.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- Taiwan begins its 5-days long 'Rapid Response' military drills to combat China's "gray-zone warfare".

🇨🇩🇷🇼🇶🇦 - Reports of Tshisekedi and Kagame agreeing to a ceasefire in eastern DR Congo are false. There has been no agreement on a ceasefire.

🇭🇷🇦🇱🇽🇰⚡- Kosovo, Albania, and Croatia have signed a trilateral defense agreement in Tirana, Albania, essentially forming a defense military alliance.

🇭🇷🇦🇱🇽🇰⚡- Albania’s Defense Minister, Pirro Vengu, has said other countries are also interested in joining the alliance.

🇷🇸⚡- Serbia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has called the alliance between Kosovo, Albania and Croatia an "open provocation".

🇷🇸⚡- "The [Kosovo-Albania-Croatia] alliance is a targeted strategy aimed at isolating Serbia," - Serbia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

🇷🇸⚡- "We are demanding an explanation from Albania and Croatia regarding why the agreement [Kosovo-Albania-Croatia alliance] was made without consulting Serbia," - Serbia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

🇷🇸🇧🇬⚡- "Bulgaria has also been invited to join the [Kosovo-Albania-Croatia] alliance," - Serbia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

🇷🇸⚡- "These two states [Croatia and Albania], along with the illegitimate representative of the Provisional Institutions of Self-Government in Pristina, Kosovo, have taken steps that undermine regional stability," - Serbia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

🇷🇸⚡- "Serbia will not accept this [Kosovo-Albania-Croatia alliance] silently," - Serbia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

🇹🇷⚡- Istanbul Mayor Imamoglu and the other detainees will be held in police custody for 4 days.

🇹🇷⚡- Large pro-CHP and anti-Erdogan protests in Istanbul, Turkey.

🇹🇷⚡- "Very soon, Ekrem Imamoglu will also be the President of Turkey," - Gokhan Gunaydın, CHP's Deputy Chairman.

🇹🇷⚡- Resul Sahan, Mayor of Sisli in the Istanbul region, has been arrested by Turkish authorities.

🇹🇷 - A total of 106 arrests have been made so far across Turkey, mainly in the northwest.