The Balıkesir 1st Administrative Court has canceled the Balıkesir Metropolitan Municipality’s decision to fill the Akçay wetland with rubble, finding the related change in the environmental plan “contrary to law”.

Bekir Bozdağ will serve as the justice minister for a third term. The main opposition leader once again warned TurkStat bureaucrats "not to become accomplices of the government."

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Main opposition CHP leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has shared a message on his social media account shortly after the incident and said, “Please don’t share the news about our little boy and don’t speak ill of him. He is just a little kid.”

Kabaş was arrested for "insulting the president" hours after Minister Gül's tweet "cursing her ugly words."

Since April 21, 2021, Cengiz Construction company has been operating in Rize’s İkizdere to open a stone quarry despite villagers’ resistance. The Rize Administrative Court has still not handed down its ruling despite the expert report in favor of İkizdere.

Güleş was sentenced to 9 years, 4 months in prison over his news and social media posts. The Constitutional Court has concluded that his freedom of expression was not violated by this conviction.

Ekrem İmamoğlu, the mayor of opposition-led İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality, has filed a criminal complaint regarding the disclosure of the city surveillance camera footage of “the dinner that he had at a fish restaurant” during snowfall.

Chaired by President and AKP Chair Erdoğan, Turkey’s National Security Council convened on January 27 and stated that “escalation is not in the interest of anyone”, calling for a de-escalation of tensions between Ukraine and Russia.

An employee of Red Bull Turkey sent an email to a foreign mountaineer and warned against coming to Hakkari province, saying, “There are 81 cities in Turkey and Hakkari is the only one that you should definitely avoid.”

Allegedly having ties to the "Fetullahist Terrorist Organization," former Special Operations Command officer Gökhan Bozkır fled the country in 2015.

According to lawyer Molu, the law on insulting the President aims to prevent or deter people from criticizing. Önderoğlu from the RSF says the law is a tool to bring people into line: Since 2014, 70 journalists have been convicted of this charge in Turkey.

The CHP leader has said that "patriotic bureaucrats" have sent him hundreds of documents about corruption involving Erdoğan and disclosed one of them.

Prisoners Sibel Balaç and Gökhan Yıldırım have been on a hunger strike for their demands as part of the right to a fair trial.

Updating what he had said about musician Sezen Aksu, President and AKP Chair Erdoğan said, “The interlocutor of my address was not Sezen Aksu. I uttered the expression of ‘ripping out tongues’ as a stance on [the ones] against the sacreds.”

Mayor İmamoğlu came under fire after meeting the UK's ambassador to Turkey at a restaurant while thousands of people were stranded on roads amid blizzards. The same group that filed the complaint threatened singer Sezen Aksu last week.

The opposition has slammed the government for not using natural gas storage facilities in full capacity.

The İstanbul 58th Criminal Court of First Instance has dismissed the appeal against the arrest of journalist Sedef Kabaş by indicating that her arrest is “not without due process of law or against the law.”

Academics of Boğaziçi University say, “Neither our dismissed deans nor we know why they have been removed from office. Neither the appointed rector, who announced the dismissal of deans, nor the YÖK, which dismissed them, made a statement.”

The European Court of Human Rights handed down 78 judgements on Turkey in 2021, ruling against the country in 76 of these cases.