According to the results of PISA 2018, even though there is a point-based increase in students’ performance in reading, mathematics and science, Turkey has still fallen behind the OECD average in these areas.

The President has made remarks on his veto of a bill postponing filter installations for 15 coal-fired power plants and relations with NATO ahead of the alliance's 70th anniversary meeting.

Discharged from public service, forced to resign or retire for signing the declaration “We will not be a party to this crime”, Academics for Peace have held statements for the press in six cities and expressed their demand for returning to their duties.

Releasing a statement on its social media account, the HDP has announced that imprisoned former Co-Chair of HDP Selahattin Demirtaş has been referred to hospital.

The HDP's jailed former co-chair lost his consciousness after having breathing difficulties on November 26 but has been kept in prison since then although the prison doctor referred him to the hospital.

The Right Initiative has indicated that while there were 743 children behind bars in 2018, this number has increased to 780 as of November 2019.

"The transformation of the Turkish state into a presidential authoritarian regime did not result in a decisive reaction from our governments," the organizations said.

The Ministry first filed a complaint against attorney Özgür Urfa for "insulting the president," then gave its approval to the complaint, which is required to put an attorney on trial.

The fourth Review Conference of the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention is underway in Oslo.

The top court has announced its decision on an application by a university student who was fined because of showing a banner that said, "The Ensar Foundation, the home of rape, should be closed."

Turkey will send its first indigenously produced communications satellite into space and produce boron carbide, the President has said.

The police have conducted raids in seven cities, including the capital Ankara.

Eighteen mayors have been arrested and mayors of 24 municipalities have been replaced with trustees in Kurdish-majority cities since the local elections on March 31.

The former economy czar of the AKP appeared on a live broadcast for the first time after he resigned from the party in July.

The then chairperson of the Diyarbakır Bar Association was shot dead during a press statement on November 28, 2015.

Attorneys of Demirtaş have made the sixth application to the Constitutional Court regarding the fact that he still in prison despite two release orders.

The President has called on the CHP Chair, who said the meeting might have happened, to prove the claims.

Speaking about HDP’s recent call for snap elections in response to appointment of trustees to its 24 municipalities, HDP Spokesperson Kubilay has said, “We call on the whole opposition to unite around this request for snap election and to take action.”

Facing up to 7.5 years in prison, academic and writer Fikret Başkaya has been acquitted in his third hearing today. His attorney Kanat has said, “This verdict will hopefully prevent new lawsuits against freedom of expression.”

After the Court of Cassation overturned the verdicts of conviction in Cumhuriyet case, the defendants stood trial again yesterday. The court has upheld conviction of all former Cumhuriyet employees, except for Kadri Gürsel.