İzmir was hit by floods for the second time this month.

As the İstanbul 14th Heavy Penal Court has abided by the second ruling of right violation given by the Constitutional Court, main opposition CHP’s Enis Berberoğlu, previously stripped of his MP status, has become an MP again.

Spokesperson for Turkey’s Foreign Ministry Aksoy has responded to the US State Department, which has recently called on Turkey to “immediately release Osman Kavala.” Aksoy has said that the statement shows an "unprincipled and inconsistent approach."

The Constitutional Court ruled on January 21 for the second time that Berberoğlu's right to be elected was violated after he was stripped of MP status.

Lawyers Hüseyin Ersöz, Özgür Urfa and Bahar Topsakal have spoken to bianet about the charges brought against the 11 university students who have been arrested over Boğaziçi University protests.

Academics of the two İstanbul universities have gathered on their respective campuses.

In a military operation launched by the Turkish Armed Forces, commando captain Burak Coşkun and sergeant major Harun Turhan have lost their lives and four soldiers have been wounded in northern Iraq.

Amid ongoing protests against Prof. Bulu, the appointed rector of Boğaziçi University, a person, introducing himself as Bulu’s friend, came with a box of chocolates. “Take the ribbon with you, you will cut it when you open the new faculty,” they have responded.

The court has ruled for the release of Turkish Medical Association (TTB) High Honorary Board member Dr. Şeyhmus Gökalp, who is standing trial over his professional activities as a physician and was arrested in late November 2020.

In the trial of public officials over the assassination of journalist Hrant Dink, both the defendants and Dink family’s attorneys made their statements. The court board is expected to hand down its ruling at the next hearing on March 5.

Addressing his party members at the ruling AKP's Parliamentary group meeting, President Erdoğan has said, “While we were working on the Presidential Government System, we were always confronted with the issue of Constitution.”

Speaking about the Soma case, Manisa Bar Association Chair Arslan says that even though the last arrested defendants were released from prison on February 5, the news has been recently heard “because it is impossible to see it in the court file.”