Making a statement about the trial over the massacre of the Dedeoğulları family in Konya, the HDP has raised concerns that the court has been “systematically rejecting the lawyers’ requests for disclosing the truth.”

The HDP submitted a motion concerning the financial supervision of Mardin's Artuklu Municipality. The motion was accepted as several AKP members abstained from the vote and one supported it.

The Constitutional Court has concluded that “the right to personal liberty and security” of journalist Cemil Uğur has been violated. The journalist spent six months in pre-trial detention after reporting on torture in Turkey’s Van province.

Over his tweet allegedly about the health condition of President Erdoğan, who has tested positive for COVID-19, former national swimmer Derya Büyükuncu has also been permanently deprived of his rights by the Turkish Swimming Federation.

One of the wounded is in serious condition. Authorities say it was probably a natural gas explosion.

Amid a days-long power cut in the city, Isparta Governor Ömer Seymenoğlu has been removed from office on the stated grounds that he has tested positive for COVID-19. Central governor Osman Kaymak has been appointed in his place.

The Council of State has halted the execution of the resolution reportedly laying the ground for the construction of the Presidential Complex in Ankara’s Beştepe.

Academic Kaan Öztürk from Boğaziçi University Department of Computer Engineering has announced that appointed rector Naci İnci has terminated his course: “The turn to be laid off from Boğaziçi has apparently come to me.”

While Kocaeli University Hospital concluded that Kurdish politician and ill prisoner Aysel Tuğluk is not in a state to stay in prison, the İstanbul Forensic Medicine Institution said that she is. Tuğluk was sent to the Institution again for a third medical report.

Pınar Ö. has been placed under house arrest after being detained as part of the investigation launched into the social media posts about the health condition of President Erdoğan and his spouse Emine Erdoğan, who have tested positive for COVID-19.

President and AKP Chair Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has announced that upon mild symptoms, he and his spouse Emine Erdoğan had themselves tested for COVID-19 today and they are having a mild Omicron case.

Main opposition CHP MP Antmen notes that Turkey recognized the ECtHR’s jurisdiction in 1989: “Erdoğan is acting contrary to the Constitution. He wants Turkey to be kicked out of the CoE and wants to make the country a quagmire of Middle East."