News Summaries from Last Week - January 23rd

First Turkish Astronaut Alper Gezeravci on the International Space Station!

The Axiom-3 (Ax-3) crew entered the station with the completion of all the procedures after the docking of the spacecraft with the first Turkish astronaut Alper Gezeravcı to the International Space Station (ISS).

Trabzonspor 1-5 Galatasaray

Galatasaray, who defeated Trabzonspor 5-1 away in the 21st week of the Trendyol Super League, caught the leader Fenerbahçe.

Erdogan: The lowest pension became 10 thousand liras

President Erdoğan made a statement after the Cabinet meeting and said, "The rate of increase for pensioners increased to 42.6 percent. The lowest pension increased from 7 thousand 500 liras to 10 thousand liras."

President Erdoğan announces AK Party's mayoral candidates for 48 provinces including Ankara and Izmir

The full list of AK Party candidates is as follows:

Izmir Hamza Dag
Ankara: Turgut Altinok
Adana: Fatih Mehmet Kocaispirli
Adiyaman Ziya Polat
Afyonkarahisar Hüseyin Ceylan Uluçay
Agri: Mehmet Salih Aydin 
Aksaray:Evren Dinçer 
Amasya: Mehmet Uyanık 
Antalya: Hakan Tütüncü
Ardahan Yunus Baydar 
Batman: Adil Sebati Ceylan 
Bayburt: Mete Memiş
Bilecik: Mustafa Yaman 
Bolu Muhammed Emin Demirkol
Burdur:Mehmet Simsek 
Corum:Halil Ibrahim Asgin
Diyarbakır:Mehmet Halis Bilden 
Gaziantep: Fatma Şahin
Gümüşhane:Ercan Çimen 
Hakkari Ismet Ölmez 
Hatay:Mehmet Öntürk
Iğdır Ülkü Öcal
Kahramanmaras:Firat Görgel
Karabuk Ozkan Cetin
Karaman:Mevlüt Akgün
Kayseri:Memduh Büyükkılıç
Kırıkkale:Mehmet Saygılı
Kırşehir:Osman Arslan
Kilis Resit Polat
Konya: Ugur Ibrahim Altay
Kütahya: Kamil Saraçoğlu 
Malatya: Sami Er
Mardin Abdullah Erin 
Mus:Feyat Asya 
Nevşehir: Mehmet Savran
Nigde: Emrah Özdemir 
Sakarya: Yusuf Alemdar 
Siirt: Ekrem Olğaç
Sivas:Hilmi Bilgin 
Şanlıurfa: Zeynel Abidin Beyazgül
Şırnak:Mehmet Yarka 
Tekirdag:Cüneyt Yüksel 
Trabzon: Ahmet Metin Genç 
Tunceli Erkan Eroglu
Uşak: Mehmet Cakin
Van: Abdulahat Arvas 
Yozgat: Celal Köse 
Zonguldak: Ömer Selim Alan

Teams advancing to the last 16 round of the Ziraat Turkish Cup

VavaCars Fatih Karagümrük, Atakaş Hatayspor, MKE Ankaragücü, Beşiktaş, Bitexen Antalyaspor, RAMS Başakşehir, Gaziantep FK, Yılport Samsunspor, Fenerbahçe, EMS Yapı Sivasspor, TÜMOSAN Konyaspor, Trabzonspor and Galatasaray from Trendyol Super League, while Trendyol 1st League teams Teksüt Bandırmaspor and Gençlerbirliği qualified for the last 16 round.

Erdogan announces AK Party's Istanbul candidates

-Adalar Mayor Uğur Sina Şen
-Atasehir mayoral candidate Mustafa Naim Yagci
-Avcılar mayoral candidate Abdullah Kucukoglu
-Candidate for Mayor of Albavutköy: Mustafa Candaroglu
-Bağcılar Mayor candidate Abdullah Özdemir,
-Bahçelievler Mayor candidate Hakan Bahadır
-Bakırköy Mayor candidate: Ali Talip Özdemir
-Bayrampaşa Mayor candidate: İlknur Koğan Bayraktar
-Besiktas Mayor candidate: Serkan Toper (MHP)
-Beykoz Mayor candidate: Murat Aydin
-Beylikdüzü Mayor candidate: Mustafa Günaydın
-Beyoglu Mayor candidate: Haydar Ali Yildiz
-Buyukcekmece Mayor candidate: Recep Erol
-Catalca Mayor candidate: Mesut Üner
-Mayor candidate for Çekmeköy: Ahmet Poyraz
-Esenler Mayor candidate: Tevfik Goksu
-Esenyurt Mayor candidate: Hamit Öncü
-Eyüpsultan Mayor candidate: Deniz Köken
-Fatih Mayor candidate: Mehmet Ergün Turan
-Gaziosmanpaşa Mayor candidate: Hasan Tahsin Usta
-Güngören Mayor candidate: Bünyamin Demir
-Candidate for Mayor of Kadikoy: Veli Arslan
-Kağıthane Mayor candidate: Mevlüt Öztekin
-Cartal Mayor candidate: Hüseyin Karakaya
-Mayoral candidate for Küçükçekmece: Aziz Yeniay
-Maltepe Mayor candidate: Kadem Ekşi
-Pendik Mayoral candidate: Ahmet Cin
-Sancaktepe Mayor candidate: Şeyma Döğücü
-Sarıyer Mayor candidate: Hüseyin Coşkun
-Silivri Mayor candidate: Volkan Yılmaz (MHP)