According to the 2021 Activity Report of the Ministry of Defense, Turkey spent 70 billion Turkish lira (1 US dollar = 14.93 lira) on "National Defense and Security", and 200 million on the walls built on the borders with Iran and Syria.

Eight people were destined during yesterday's incidents where a police officer threatened to shoot an HDP deputy.

MEPs have called for the immediate release of Kavala and other convicts of the Gezi case.

The family will now file an appeal with the Court of Cassation, the country's top appeals court.

Tensions rose after a group known as the "Diyarbakır families" attempted to leave a black wreath in front of the party's headquarters.

Alevis' places of worship should be recognized by the state and the massacres against them should be confronted with, HDP Co-Chair Sancar has said.

İstanbul Metropolitan Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu’s visit to the Black Sea is regarded by some as “preparations for the Presidential election”. He has said that candidacy “is not on his agenda”, adding: “Change in the upcoming elections is on my agenda.”

Vice Minister of Interior Çataklı has announced that the Immigration Authority of Turkey will file a criminal complaint against Victory Party Chair Özdağ, Sinan Oğan and Prof. Bengi Başer over their remarks marking the Syrian refugees as targets.

Speaking at the inauguration ceremony of new houses built in Syria’s Idlib, President and AKP Chair Erdoğan said that “since 2016, around 500,000 Syrians have returned to safe zones in northern Syria.”

CHP deputy Utku Çakırözer has visited Mücella Yapıcı, Mine Özerden and Çiğdem Mater in prison.

Today is the first day of Eid al-Fitr, also known as Sugar Feast or Ramadan Feast in Turkey.

Attorneys of Deniz Poyraz case demanded the recusal of the court board and the defendant Onur Gencer to be present at the court room.

Artan COVID-19 vaka ve ölü sayıları sebebiyle Mart ayının sonundan bu yana sıkı kapanma tedbirleri altındaki Şanghay’da tedbirlerin hafiletileceği açıklanırken Çin’in başkenti Pekin’de vaka sayıları yükselmeye devam ediyor.

"They don't know international law. The domestic Soros will pay the price for attacking the state," the president has said.

"Remember the Dolmabahçe Mosque. The garbage heads who sit in the mosque with cans of beer came to our office," the president said.

CHP MPs including Group Deputy Chair Özgür Özel visited the convicts of Gezi Trial, Osman Kavala, Can Atalay, Tayfun Kahraman and Hakan Altınay in Silivri Prison.

The "cross-border operation," the "Gezi Trial," and the "lynch attempt" against Garo Paylan are just the opening moves. It is almost certain that 2022 and 2023 will be full of similar attempts with increased numbers and violence. More than not being frightened by "muscle flexing" is needed for an effective opposition.

The co-chairs of the International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute have described the court verdict in the Gezi trial as a "blatant disregard" of the rule of law and called for the overturn of the verdict.

The president commented for the first time on the outcome of the case concerning the countrywide protests against his government in 2013.

A former AKP deputy and the spouse of the governor has sharply criticized the court verdict in the Gezi trial on Twitter.