In an interview with a US news channel, President Erdoğan dismissed the claims that “100 thousand citizens were investigated for insulting him.” The Justice Ministry data shows that 12,881 people have been convicted of the crime since 2014.

Turkey’s Presidential Spokesperson İbrahim Kalın has talked about normalization with Armeni̇a, in a first after a long time.

The villagers have won their legal struggle against the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) decisions given for the geothermal power plant works in Orhanlı village in İzmir’s Seferihisar district.

The opposition party says the evidence against Odabaşıoğlu was illegally obtained.

The appointed administration of Boğaziçi has not approved the course of Özcan Vardar, a part-time lecturer since 2013. With the dismissal of Candan and cancellation of Erçin and Vardar’s courses, eight courses of the Film Studies have been closed.

The Ankara 4th Administrative Court has cancelled the 8th plan change regarding the “Iron Cage” area. The Ankara Branch of the Chamber of Architects has called on the Metropolitan Municipality to abide by the ruling and to swiftly seal off the YDA Center.

A HDP deputy has brought a report on rights violations in prisons to the parliamentary agenda.

Journalists Olaf Koens and Pepijn Nagtzaam were taken into custody in Edirne, where they went to report on the refugee mobility. Detained “because they entered a military forbidden zone”, the journalists have been released after giving their statements.

HDP Vice Co-Chair Tülay Hatimoğulları has announced that two armed people who introduced themselves as police officers forced the door of her house in Ankara, adding that her complaints about the issue have remained inconclusive.

Put on trial for being editors-in-chief on watch for Özgür Gündem newspaper and with their acquittal overturned by the appeals court, Korur-Fincancı, Önderoğlu and Nesin will once again appear before the judge on September 30.

Amid university students’ protests for affordable housing, the Social Democracy Foundation Youth Organization (SODEV Youth) has released a report on state dormitories in Turkey: “There are 32 students per bed in İstanbul and 11 in Ankara.”

Kurdish question is becoming a key issue in the next election • Student housing protests spread across the country • Erdoğan voices discontent over relations with Biden administration • Two refugees went missing after being pushed into river