While Gaziosmanpaşa Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has launched an investigation into the incident where two passengers from France were taken out of a quarantine bus, Minister Soylu has announced that the two have been quarantined.

Behind bars since March 1, Yakın Doğu Haber news website Editor-in-Chief Dursunoğlu has been sentenced to 50 days in prison for “praising an offense and offender.” The court has turned his prison term into a judicial fine and ruled for his release.

Minister of Treasury and Finance Berat Albayrak has shared a message on his Twitter account regarding the economic measures to be taken in Turkey against coronavirus.

MP Çelik has stressed that many people who are in the risk group regarding the coronavirus outbreak do not have a good command of Turkish.

Addressing the reporters, HDP Spokesperson Günay has called on the government to distribute disinfection and hygiene products to the poor free of charge over coronavirus concerns: “It is - by definition - what being a social state is all about.”

People will not be able to visit MPs and attend parties' parliamentary group meetings until the end of the month.

Nine lawyers, former HDP executive Sedat Çelik and Salih Erbekler, a former worker of Radyo Karacadağ radio station closed by a Statutory Decree, have been taken into custody in Diyarbakır and Urfa.

Put on trial for “insulting the President” upon the tip of an informer, Contemporary Journalists’ Association Mediterranean Branch Chair Engin Korkmaz had his second hearing. While the informant is convicted of “slander”, the trial of Korkmaz still continues.

Legal proceedings have been started against 29 social media users who alleged that “the institutions do not take necessary and adequate precautions against Covid-19 and the epidemic is hidden from the public.”

Speaking at the weekly group meeting of his party, President and ruling AKP Chair Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has indicated that the first coronavirus case in Turkey was detected in a person who has come to the country from Europe.

The Atletik Dildoa football team, which also organized the Queer Olympix, has had a tournament with two other teams as part of the "Football vs Homophobia Month."

The Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office of Court of the Cassation has demanded that the aggravated life sentence given to death fasting inmate Murat Koçak based on witness statements be upheld as “the evidence is legal.”

Mızraklı was one of the first HDP mayors to be dismissed by the Ministry of Interior in the Kurdish-majority cities after the 2019 local elections.

Professional organizations, journalists and MPs have expressed solidarity in a press statement following the recent arrest of daily Yeni Yaşam Editor-in-Chief Ferhat Çelik and Managing Editor Aydın Keser and Yeniçağ columnist Murat Ağırel.

Taken into custody again upon the objection of the prosecutor’s office to their release on probation, daily Yeni Çağ columnist Murat Ağırel and journalists Aydın Keser and Ferhat Çelik from Yeni Yaşam newspaper have been arrested.

Odatv Editor-in-Chief Barış Pehlivan has been arrested over a news report on a National Intelligence Organization (MİT) officer who lost his life in Libya. News director Barış Terkoğlu and reporter Hülya Kılınç were also arrested over the same report.

Behind bars since November 26, 2019, Mezopotamya Agency reporter Ruken Demir has been released.

Both journalists are charged with obtaining and disclosing information on intelligence operations.

Deputies from the ruling AKP and the main opposition CHP engaged in a fight as CHP MP Özkoç is under investigation for "insulting the president."

Ankara announced a week ago that it started a military operation into Idlib, northwestern Syria.