Dating back to the Byzantine period when it was built as a monastery, the Chora (Kariye) Museum in İstanbul has been opened to worship as a mosque by a Presidential decree. It was previously handed over to the Presidency of Religious Affairs.

İstanbul Mayor İmamoğlu has talked about the removal of their banners against the Canal İstanbul project by the Governor's Office: “If they will take action, my advice is this: Don’t bother with banners, my social media posts have been there for months.”

HDP Group Deputy Chair Danış-Beştaş said, “Erdoğan said he would announce good news tomorrow. The best news would be your leaving. People are poor and unemployed, prisons are full, pandemic measures are not taken, everyone is faced with death.”

As the time given to the İstanbul Mesopotamia Cultural Center to leave its building of 18 years expired today, the building was blockaded by the police. The artists of the center have made a statement, stressing that they will keep doing their art.

Nazlı and Abravci were placed in house arrest over a slogan painted on a wall about the appointment of trustees. It has been a year since then; but, no indictment has been filed. As there is a confidentiality order on the file, even the attorneys cannot access it.

Transferred to İstanbul so that he could take his exams at university, arrested student Can was battered by gendarmerie. He took the ensuing impunity to the Constitutional Court, which has concluded that prohibition of maltreatment was violated.

HDP MP Paylan has addressed a Parliamentary question about the trustees appointed to HDP municipalities: “Is it possible that your silence in the face of trustees' plunder and unlawful acts is related to your ‘enemy politics’ against the HDP and the elected?”

The Giresun Penal Judgeship of Peace has rejected the objection of İstanbul Bar Association, which previously said, “We clearly see that the file on the suspicious death of Rabia Naz is covered up and evidence is spoiled.”

MP Paylan has asked why the government does not protect the cemetery.

The municipality has said the Governor's order for removal of the banners was not based on a court verdict.

Mızraklı was dismissed as the Diyarbakır Mayor and later imprisoned on "terrorism-related" charges.

The government has taken over 47 of the 65 municipalities won by the HDP in the Kurdish-majority provinces.

The building of the İstanbul Mesopotamia Cultural Center (MKM), a Kurdish culture and art center in Tarlabaşı neighborhood, is being handed over to the Beyoğlu Municipality by the Beyoğlu Sub-Governor’s Office.

İmamoğlu has introduced two "earthquake parks" which will be used as a cultural center and will be turned into a shelter in case of an earthquake.

President and ruling AKP Chair Erdoğan has filed a lawsuit against main opposition CHP Chair Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu over his allegations that Erdoğan has money abroad. He demands 2 million lira in non-pecuniary damages.

According to a recent survey conducted by the Metropoll Research company, if we had elections in Turkey today, only the ruling AKP and main opposition CHP could pass the 10-percent threshold while the HDP, İYİ Party and HDP would fail to do so.

Muhittin Böcek, the Metropolitan Mayor of Turkey’s Mediterranean province of Antalya, has announced that he has been diagnosed with coronavirus: “I am in good general health, my spirits are high. I am isolated in hospital for control purposes.”

Prof. Tosun has spoken to bianet about the new movement of Muharrem İnce, a former Presidential candidate from the main opposition CHP in 2018.

President and ruling AKP Chair Recep Tayyip Erdoğan have appointed presidents to 16 public universities, including the İstanbul Technical University (İTÜ) and Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara.

Shortly after main opposition CHP’s former Presidential candidate announced a new “movement” in a press conference, the party has responded to his allegations about the Presidential election campaign in a written statement.