In a vehicle accident in the Haftanin region of Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government, two soldiers have lost their lives and one soldier has been wounded.

MHP Chair Bahçeli has backed Alaattin Çakıcı, who has insulted and threatened main opposition CHP Chair Kılıçdaroğlu in two separate open letters. Convicted of leading a criminal organization, Çakıcı previously served 16 years behind bars.

“According to the figures shared by the Health Ministry on November 14, 92 people lost their lives due to coronavirus across Turkey. On the same day, 164 people lost their lives due to an ‘infectious disease’ in İstanbul,” says HDP’s Kenanoğlu.

“I am not a complainant in the Gezi trial, nor am I an intervening party. Thinking that they were aggrieved, the prosecutor wrote the names of all members of the then government one by one,” says DEVA Party Chair Babacan in response to criticisms.

Celal Çelik, the attorney of main opposition CHP Chair Kılıçdaroğlu, has announced that they have filed a criminal complaint against Alaattin Çakıcı, who was convicted of leading a criminal organization and has insulted and threatened Kılıçdaroğlu.

Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) has released a statement about the lawsuit that was filed into the killing of Kemal Kurkut during Newroz celebrations in Diyarbakır and has ended in the acquittal of the defendant police officer.

With a Presidential decree published in the Official Gazette today, Muhammet Güven has been removed from office and Sabahattin Aydın, the President of İstanbul Medipol University, has been appointed as the new Vice Minister of Health.

Charged with “insulting state institutions” upon the criminal complaint of President Erdoğan’s attorney Mustafa Doğan İnal, journalist Uğur Güç has been acquitted.

Making a statement following the cabinet meeting, President and AKP Chair Erdoğan has announced a series of new measures to curb the spread of COVID-19.

In the lawsuit filed into the killing of Kemal Kurkut during the Newroz celebrations in Diyarbakır in 2017, the police officer who was charged with “killing with eventual intent” has been acquitted.

Acun Karadağ, who had been protesting to “get her job back”, was arrested with five others in August. On the 4th anniversary of their protest, she has sent a letter to bianet from Kayseri Prison, where she stays with Alev Şahin, another arrested protester.

Sentenced to prison for “having performed medicine” in Turkey’s Kurdish-majority southeastern province of Şırnak during the period of curfews, Dr. Serdar Küni has been given the same prison sentence in retrial. An appeal will be lodged against the ruling.

İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality has announced that it has taken new measures against the pandemic based on the recommendations of its Scientific Advisory Board amid increasing number of COVID-19 cases in society and among its personnel.

CHP MP Çakırözer visited Ayhan Bilgen, HDP’s dismissed Kars Co-Mayor, in prison in Ankara. Addressing the reporters after his visit, he has commented on the remarks of Justice Minister Gül, who said, “Constitutional Court decisions are binding.”

In a statement explaining the reason for the investigation launched against İstanbul Metropolitan Mayor İmamoğlu, the Ministry of Interior has referred to Canal İstanbul as a “state project,” to which İmamoğlu has responded: “To me, it is not.”

Referred to the İYİ Party Disciplinary Board after accusing the party’s İstanbul Chair of “having links to the FETÖ”, İstanbul MP Ümit Özdağ has been expelled from the party in a unanimous decision. Özdağ has said that he will take the issue to court.

Supervising the execution of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) judgements, the Council of Europe (CoE) Committee of Ministers has requested that Turkey submit a report on 15 cases.

PEN Norway has analyzed the indictment issued against journalists for allegedly revealing the identity of an intelligence officer. The report has concluded that the indictment “does not even satisfy the minimum criteria expected of such a document.”

The Checks and Balances Network has released a report titled “Presidential System Ahead of 2021: Judiciary.” The report has shown that with the adoption of the new system in April 2017, the influence of the executive on the judiciary has increased.

İYİ Party Chair Akşener has announced that an investigation has been launched against İstanbul Metropolitan Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu due to his objection to the Canal İstanbul project. Municipality's spokesperson has confirmed the investigation.