January 9, 2026 – Turkey Headlines

Story gist: Turkey’s Meteorology Department issued yellow code warnings for 29 provinces due to intensifying strong winds and storms, with snow and avalanches expected. The storm is projected to lose effect tomorrow.

Bias summary: Left-leaning Diken emphasizes dangers like storms, snow, and avalanches with warnings for 29 provinces, using alarmist tone. Center Kocaeli Governorship neutrally reports storm intensification via official notice. Right-leaning TRT Haber highlights storm ending tomorrow, reassuring on short duration. Left stresses risks and alerts; right downplays persistence; center remains factual without emphasis.

Story gist: Turkey’s ÖSYM announced the start of the preference process for placing candidates with disabilities into public institutions.

Bias summary: Left-leaning outlets provided no coverage, omitting the story. Center outlets neutrally listed the official ÖSYM institution name without details. Right-leaning Anadolu Ajansı emphasized the process enabling disabled individuals’ placement into public institutions, using inclusive language focused on accessibility and government facilitation.

Story gist: Media outlets report on Venezuelan public views of a future without President Nicolás Maduro. A socialist party leader calls for continental resistance.

Bias summary: Left-leaning outlets like birgun.net frame the story through pro-Maduro resistance, emphasizing a socialist leader’s call for continental solidarity against opposition. Center outlets like BBC pose neutral questions about public sentiment on a post-Maduro era. Right-leaning outlets are absent, omitting potential focus on regime failures or opposition optimism.

Story gist: In April 2026, strong lodos winds and rain struck Bursa, Turkey. Damage included roofs flying off, sea overflowing, and glass balconies detaching from a luxury site. Bursa Mayor Bozbey issued a lodos warning.

Bias summary: Left-leaning outlets emphasize Mayor Bozbey’s official lodos warning, highlighting municipal preparedness. Center coverage focuses on specific damage to a luxury site’s glass balconies, using sensational imagery. Right-leaning sources stress widespread destruction from strong storm and rain, such as flying roofs and overflowing sea, omitting the mayor’s warning.

Story gist: Three Turkish members of parliament joined the AKP party. The move affects power balances in the Grand National Assembly.

Bias summary: Left-leaning Medyascope emphasizes CHP’s criticism, framing AKP’s recruitment as a desperate bid for lost reputation using ‘politically finished’ figures, with negative tone. Center BBC neutrally reports the event and queries parliamentary balances without judgment. Right-leaning Hürriyet celebrates via columnist Ahmet Hakan’s narrative of ‘capturing’ an MP for AKP, highlighting party gain with positive emphasis.