Arguing that the ruling AKP and its ally MHP want to take revenge on the HDP for the last local elections, HDP Co-Chair Pervin Buldan says that they “planned” the closure case against the party for this reason.

In justifying the 21-year prison sentence given to Kemal Sancılı, İnan Kızılkaya, Zana Kaya and Eren Keskin, the heavy penal court has argued that “an understanding and concept of real and national human rights needs to be discussed and observed.”

With a Presidential decision published in the Official Gazette, Murat Çetinkaya has been dismissed as the Deputy Governor of Turkey’s Central Bank and replaced by Mustafa Duman, an executive director at Morgan Stanley in Turkey.

Minister of Environment and Urbanization Kurum and İstanbul Governor Yerlikaya visited Boğaziçi University Uçaksavar lodgings three days ago. Academics are now informed by the Rectorate that the lodgings will be demolished and rebuilt.

Defining Turkey as a “water stressed country”, AKP Chair and President Erdoğan has argued that “Turkey has broken records in agricultural production” in the country’s Republican history since 1923.

Despite the evidence indicating that the defendants committed the offense charged, the prosecutor has demanded their acquittal. The families whose children were disappeared in the 1990s have denounced the prosecutor’s opinion.

"The democratic opposition should be able to put a more serious pressure on the ruling power," the DİB has said.

Raising concerns over “double standards”, main opposition CHP MP Emre has submitted a legislative proposal foreseeing the cancellation of administrative fines imposed on people during the coronavirus outbreak and refund of the already paid fines.

Main opposition CHP MP Murat Emir has raised concerns about the contradictions between the statements of the Health Minister and BioNTech company about the number of vaccine doses that arrived in Turkey in the first batch and the dates of delivery.

The Kurdish voters' trust in politics has decreased and opposition parties' voters tend to disapprove of the closure case against the party and the revocation of Gergerlioğlu's deputyship, according to the survey.

According to a statement released by the Interior Ministry, over the past week, 21 thousand 495 people faced legal and/or administrative action in Turkey for failing to comply with the weeknight and weekend curfews as part of COVID-19 measures.

Having appealed against the appointment of Melih Bulu as a rector to Boğaziçi, the academics of the university have made another application to the Council of State, requesting the annulment of the Presidential decision opening two new faculties.

Speaking before the Party Assembly meeting, HDP Co-Chair Sancar said, “HDP is a strong line of thought. For this reason, they cannot close the HDP. The effort to close it is just an open confession of the fact that their own power is coming to an end.”

The trial of public officials over the killing of journalist Hrant Dink has ended in the acquittal of 37 defendants and conviction of 26. Hakan Bakırcıoğlu, Bülent Aydın, Erol Önderoğlu and Yetvart Danzikyan have made statements about the ruling.

In the trial over the assassination of journalist Hrant Dink, the files of 13 people have been separated. 37 defendants have been acquitted and 26 have been convicted. Four have been given a life sentence and two an aggravated life sentence.

Amid allegations that he died in prison, Kurdistan Workers’ Party leader Abdullah Öcalan had a brief phone call with his brother. Asrın Law Bureau has stated that the call was interrupted after a very short time and the conversation could not proceed.

The HDP has filed a criminal complaint against Ankara Public Prosecutor Ersoy Yıldız who gave the instruction for detaining HDP’s dismissed Kocaeli MP Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu at the Parliament during his justice watch.

Having appointed Prof. Fazıl Önder Sönmez to three positions, Prof. Melih Bulu, the appointed rector of Boğaziçi University, has appointed him to the Institute of Graduate Sciences in Science and Engineering as an acting director.

Main opposition CHP MP Murat Emir says that 2.8 billion lira in the Research and Development fund of the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure has been used to close the budget deficit, as it is also the case in other similar funds.

Attacked by police in their 700th gathering for their enforced disappeared loved ones, Saturday Mothers/People appeared before the judge in İstanbul today, on March 25. The next hearing of the case will be held on July 12, 2021.