Overnight editors stayed with a 3.5-magnitude tremor off Yalova felt in Istanbul and a 3.6 quake in Kayseri, alongside 1,400 hospital admissions in Tokat with a boil-water warning. Morning coverage lingered on CHP-elected mayors joining the AK Party, with Cemil Tugay's interview and polling on Özlem Çerçioğlu, and on DEM Party conditions for backing Erdoğan.
By mid-morning focus shifted to Akhisar in Manisa, where a truck collided with a tour bus. Early tolls of four dead rose to 11 dead and 27 injured, with footage released and drivers detained. Separately an MHP deputy was injured in a fatal crash in Afşin.
Tokat admissions climbed toward 3,000, prompting a one-day school closure for disinfection. A drifting tanker halted Bosphorus traffic, a new Yalova tremor was felt in Istanbul, and Ankara condemned Houthi strikes on Riyadh airport in a joint statement with Egypt, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.