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."