While the ruling AKP and MHP and the opposition CHP and İYİ Party have approved the declaration signed by Parliamentary Speaker Şentop, the HDP has rejected the declaration condemning US President Biden’s recognition of Armenian genocide.

In 1989, Evren left office, Özal came to power. ANAP lost, SHP rose. Turkey was like a country with two constitutions. Amid hunger strikes, workers’ and students’ protests, they shot Mehmet Akif Dalcı on May 1, a day people were not allowed to celebrate.

The attorneys have said that they called on the court board to be independent but were "shown the door."

Ümit Özdağ has called Paylan, an Armenian of Turkey, "a vicious enemy of the Turkish nation" and said he would "have a Talat Pasha experience when the time comes."

Diyarbakır Bar Association Chair Eren says, “Defending the freedom of expression of everyone to the end, the Diyarbakır Bar Association will not restrict its own freedom of expression due to pressures and investigations.”

Following the ruling AKP’s Üsküdar Municipality, the Ümraniye Municipality has also tried to prevent the opposition-led İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality teams from setting up a new cheap bread buffet in the district. Citizens have protested.

Following a ruling of right violation handed down by the Constitutional Court, a lawsuit has been filed against three police officers for “violating the freedom to work and labor” of former bianet reporter Beyza Kural.

Turkey’s Parliamentary Speaker Şentop has commented on US President Biden’s formal recognition of the Armenian genocide: “It has revealed the US contradictions of science and international law.”

The decrease marks an exception in a decade of an upward trend in the country's military expenditures, notes the SIPRI report.

"Thankfully, we have full faith in justice. Our state and nation always stand against all centers that want to divide Turkey," Altun has remarked.

In a statement to mark the 59th anniversary of the Constitutional Court, Zühtü Arslan, the President of the top court, has said that “they are faced with a heavy workload”, adding that “they keep up with their rights-oriented approach with determination.”

Speaking at Boğaziçi University, Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Karaismailoğlu has said that “they are always on the side of young people who produce.” The students have announced that the police have torn down their open-air library.

Facing aggravated life imprisonment over the Kobanî protests from seven years ago, the HDP politicians appeared before the judge today, on April 26. The court board has rejected the attorneys' request for recusal.

Ruhsar Pekcan was dismissed as the minister of trade after it was revealed that the ministry bought nine million lira worth of disinfectants from her company.

The Turkish Armed Forces on April 23 launched a new operation as part of the "Claw Operations" targeting the PKK.

Presidential Spokesperson İbrahim Kalın has spoken to two international news outlets, Al Jazeera news channel and Reuters news agency, about US President Biden’s official recognition of the Armenian genocide.

HDP deputy Garo Paylan has submitted a law proposal for the recognition of the genocide.

Ceremonies are held to mark April 23 National Sovereignty and Children’s Day in the 101th anniversary of the establishment of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. The country-wide COVID-19 curfew is also in effect.

Speaking at the Leaders’ Summit on Climate on World Earth Day, President Erdoğan said that the “Nation’s Gardens” project increased green spaces and sink capacities, adding that “they planted a total of 5.1 billion saplings for the last 18 years.”

In its annual report on religious freedom, the US Commission on International Religious Freedom has mentioned Hagia Sophia’s conversion into a mosque, defining it as “a move that many denounced as divisive and hostile to Turkey’s religious minorities.”