US President Joe Biden has nominated former Senator Jeff Flake to be the next US Ambassador to Turkey, the White House has announced. If the Senate approves it, Flake will be the new US Ambassador in Ankara.

HDP Co-Chair Buldan has criticized the opposition Nation’s Alliance: “The unions of democracy forces that we supported in İstanbul, Ankara, İzmir, Adana, Mersin, Antalya elections were important. No one should expect the same attitude from us anymore.”

The main opposition leader has said that "The Erdoğan era is over" while MHP leader Bahçeli has accused the opposition of acting in unison with "enemies of Turkey."

Police officer Kazım B. has been indicted for killing Recep Hantaş, who was sitting with his friends in Sümerpark in Diyarbakır. B. has been charged with “killing with eventual intent” over the incident that happened two years ago.

The academics of Boğaziçi University have filed a criminal complaint about the decision preventing them from entering the campus on July 3, 2021.

The ruling AKP’s omnibus bill foreseeing the extension of the State of Emergency practices for 3 years is discussed at the Parliamentary Commission. The opposition parties CHP, HDP and İYİ Party have slammed the bill.

Announcing that the official holiday of the Sacrifice Feast will be 9 days, Erdoğan has argued that “there has remained no difference between the east and west, the north and south of the country in terms of freedoms, rights and basic services."

“Who should have been on trial here today is the ones responsible for the enforced disappearance of my father, so, the ones who committed a crime against humanity; but my sister and I are on trial because we search for our father and demand justice.”

Hatip Dicle, a member of the delegation having talks with imprisoned PKK leader Öcalan during the resolution process, has commented on President Erdoğan’s statement that “the HDP ended the resolution process” for the Kurdish question.

Taken into custody for dancing on the gate of the Surp Takavor Armenian Church in Kadıköy, three suspects have been released from detention, two on probation.

The Forensic Medicine Institution has issued a report on seriously ill prisoner Mehmet Emin Özkan (83), who is unable to meet his personal needs on his own, and concluded that he can stay in prison.

Hüseyin Boğatekin, the lawyer of the arrested clerics, has stated that before the court started hearing the statements, they saw on the computer screen that a ruling of arrest had already been given for his clients.

Issued by the Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Court of Cassation and accepted by the Constitutional Court, the 844-page indictment seeking the closure of the HDP and its appendix have been notified to the party.

More countries declined than improved in overall rule of law performance for the third year in a row, the WJP has noted.

Minister Soylu is backed by a shady organization that wants to make him the president, says the mob boss.

In “A Breath for Democracy” rally held in the Aegean province of İzmir, messages of a joint struggle for democracy, justice and peace were given, stressing that the labor and democracy forces “will continue defending the fraternity of all colors and peoples.”

According to the statistics, over 46 thousand written Parliamentary questions have been submitted to the Parliamentary in the current legislative term. More than 16 thousand of them have never been answered.

Put on trial over a news report titled “German Cartoonists Have Drawn Erdoğan Badly”, Evrensel newspaper’s news director Cem Şimşek has been sentenced to 11 months, 20 days in prison on charge of “insulting the President.”

The İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has appealed against the acquittal of journalist Melis Alphan, who was put on trial for posting a photo from the Diyarbakır Newroz in 2015 and acquitted of the offense charged in May 2021.

"We have about two years before the elections. I want you to seize every day and every moment of this time in the most efficient way," the president said amid calls for a snap election.