The snowfall is expected to continue on the weekend as the occupancy rates in the city's dams have also increased amid a water shortage threat following dry months.

Members of the AKP’s Central Executive Board were vaccinated though it had not yet been their turn. Then, Health Minister “invited” some officials and politicians to be vaccinated. Dr. Karakoç says, “Vaccination must be done according to WHO criteria.”

İYİ Party Chair Meral Akşener has commented on the court’s reversal of İstanbul MP Ümit Özdağ’s expulsion from the party: “When it comes to the internal affairs of our party, the judiciary has worked quite fast. It is very meaningful!”

Prof. Dani Rodrik and Prof. Daron Acemoğlu have spoken to the Student Representative Board (ÖTK) of Boğaziçi University amid ongoing protests against the appointment of Prof. Bulu as the new university president.

Targeted by calls for its closure, especially by MHP Chair Bahçeli, HDP’s Saruhan Oluç has said, “HDP is not a shop, it is a mass popular movement; HDP represents almost 20 million people, with its over 6 million voters and their families.”

İstanbul Bar’s Commission on Protection of Personal Data Chair Turan says, “The EU does not allow the data obtained from one channel to be combined with another. That is why Facebook cannot use the data obtained from Whatsapp.”

Students and academics of Boğaziçi University have been protesting the new rector for two weeks.

İzmit Mayor Fatma Kaplan Hürriyet, the only mayor from the CHP in Kocaeli, applied twice to the Interior Ministry about the irregularities at the municipality. She now faces an investigation on the grounds that garbage is not regularly collected.

After claiming to fight the "interest rate lobby" for years, the president has made Turkey the country with the ninth highest interest rate in the world, the HDP's Paylan has pointed out.

Because the investigation file was classified, neither we nor our lawyers were allowed to see the contents of the indictment that was admitted on January 7, 2021. We spent 104 days not knowing what we were charged with.

Prosecutors are investigating the party members on "terrorism-related" charges.

Main opposition CHP has prepared a report regarding the aftermath of the 6.8 magnitude earthquake that hit Turkey’s eastern province of Elazığ in January 2020 and claimed the lives of 41 people.

Protesting Prof. Bulu, who has been appointed as the new president of their university, Boğaziçi students have expressed their support for the workers of Bimeks electronics retailer, who have been protesting their former boss still teaching at the school.

Referring to Turkey’s mediascape in coup periods, President and AKP Chair Erdoğan has said, “Even though those who have lost their privileges are disturbed, we have a more colorful, more democratic and more pluralistic media structure.”

The four prisoners at the İmralı Prison had one meeting and one phone conversation with their family members, according to their attorneys.

The Ombudsman Institution (KDK) has concluded that the freedom of assembly and expression of bar association chairs was violated when they were prevented by the police from marching to the capital city of Ankara against the new Attorneys’ Act.

In a brief message shared on the official Twitter account of Uber Turkey, it has been announced that the ban on access to Uber has been lifted as of today. The court of appeals, last month, allowed Uber to work with yellow cabs.

Main opposition CHP Chair Kılıçdaroğlu has criticized the state agency TurkStat’s recent labor force statistics indicating that unemployment has declined in Turkey: “Those working there… Don’t you see the hunger and poverty of millions?”

In the trial over the assassination of journalist Hrant Dink, an arrest warrant was issued for Okan Şimşek, the then intelligence officer at the Trabzon Provincial Gendarmerie Command. Şimşek was detained in Manisa.

Ministry of Justice has sent an instruction to all prosecutor’s offices across Turkey and requested information regarding the trials for “insulting the president” and “degrading the nation, state of the Republic of Turkey, the organs and institutions of the state.”