Sırrı Sakık: “Closing a party is not the solution. Our 9 parties have been closed; they now say that the 10th should be closed as well. Even if there is no letter left in the alphabet, we will carry on our political struggle by buying letters and founding a new party.”

Demanding the abolishment of 17 MPs’ legislative immunity, 23 of these new summaries of proceedings have been filed against the MPs of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), including HDP Co-Chair Mithat Sancar.

The 10th Chamber of the Council of State has rejected the request for the stay of execution of a Social Security Institution (SGK) circular that does not classify the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) as an occupational disease.

Journalist Aydın Engin has filed a lawsuit against the Presidency’s Directorate of Communications over its failure to give him his permanent press card for over two years: “It is an acquired right; no institution can deny it without reasonable justification.”

HDP Spokesperson Günay says that President and AKP Chair Erdoğan “once again gave an instruction to the judiciary” to hold former HDP Co-Chairs Demirtaş and Yüksekdağ and other arrested HDP politicians behind bars.

The first candles marking the start of the holiday were lit yesterday evening.

Having postponed reviewing the individual application of arrested businessperson and rights defender Osman Kavala in September, the Constitutional Court has announced that it will examine his application next Tuesday.

Batman MP Necdet İpekyüz has shared the HDP’s “Life Economy Without Debt” report with the public. “We are faced with a catastrophic picture where 739 thousand 756 people cannot pay their credit debt,” İpekyüz has warned.

Signing a number of agreements in the fields of transportation, communication and visa exemption, Turkey’s President Erdoğan and Azerbaijan’s President Aliyev held a joint press conference in Baku, the capital city of Azerbaijan.

While the court board has ruled that Figen Yüksekdağ, the former Co-Chair of the HDP, shall remain behind bars, one of the judges has expressed a dissenting opinion. Put on trial over her political speeches, Yüksekdağ faces up to 83 years in prison.

The party announced on Tuesday that it found bugging devices in its İstanbul office.

More than six million students were not able to access the online education network in the last school year.

With the execution of his prison sentence deferred after his death fast for a fair trial, lawyer Aytaç Ünsal has been taken into custody in Turkey’s northwestern province of Edirne “because he was suspected to flee abroad.”

34 workers of the İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality have so far lost their lives due to coronavirus, according to Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, who has reiterated his call for a total lockdown to curb the spread of the virus.

HDP Group Deputy Chair Oluç has responded to Erdoğan, who has recently stated that “he does not think Turkey’s judiciary will allow for [the release of] a terrorist like Demirtaş.” Oluç has said, “He is openly commiting a Constitutional crime.”

Education expenditures increased at most in primary education with 31.9 percent and lower secondary education with 26.4 percent in 2019 compared to the previous year.

UEFA has stated that it will conduct a thorough investigation into the incident.

Discharged from public service by a Statutory Decree, Bozkurt is behind bars on charge of “organization membership.” However, the administrative investigation previously launched against her did not find any actions that would constitute a crime.

The recent measures implemented by the government have not reduced the numbers, says İmamoğlu.

Defining U.Y. and İ.P. as “children pushed into crime,” the court board has ruled that they shall be sentenced to 23 years, 1 month, 10 days and 22 years in prison respectively. U.Y.'s father has also been sentenced to 20 years, 4 months for “aiding the murder.”