Protesting the failure to announce the data on İzmir’s air quality, CHP MP Bakan has said, “If the air quality is measured 24/7, why has this data not been shared for 5 years? Then, it means that you are hiding something.”

HDP Co-Chair Mithat Sancar has talked about the recently escalating xenophobia: “We say ‘no’ to war; peace is our path. We will never give credence to racism.”

HDP MP Filiz Kerestecioğlu has addressed a Parliamentary question to Minister of Justice Gül about the trial over the assassination of journalist Musa Anter in 1992, underlining that the requests of the court are left unanswered.

Retired teacher Metin Lokumcu’s son Ulaş Lokumcu and lawyer Meriç Eyüboğlu have spoken to bianet about the trial over the death of Metin Lokumcu, who lost his life after being affected by the pepper gas used during a police intervention into a protest.

Addressing people in Turkey’s Kurdish-majority eastern province of Ağrı, HDP Co-Chair Mithat Sancar has called on them to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Sancar has also said that the HDP will “bring the Kurdî alliance to the widest possible extent.”

The people of Orhanlı village in İzmir’s Seferihisar district have been protesting against a geothermal power plant planned to be constructed in their region. They have the company’s “People’s Participation Meeting” cancelled.

HDP MP Günay has submitted a Parliamentary question about Sancar, who was subjected to torture in detention, stood trial via the SEGBİS video conference system and sentenced to 22 years in prison: “His right to a fair trial has been violated.”

In a conflict that broke out in the area where the Turkish Armed Forces is carrying out the “Operation Claw” in Iraq’s north, two soldiers have lost their lives and one wounded soldier has been hospitalized.

The Diyarbakır Bar Association has filed a criminal complaint against Yeni Şafak newspaper, which targeted the 15 bar associations for having condemned the racist attacks against Kurds in a joint statement.

17 people from the HDP have been put on trial for attending the press statement against the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant in Mersin. They are charged with “violating the Law on Meetings and Demonstrations.”

Having announced that a 10-fold increase will be introduced to the water bills and solid waste taxes collected from refugees, Bolu Mayor Özcan has said, “I am behind by words. If I have to pay a price, I am ready to do it. I will never take a step back.”

The ministry has released a video under the theme "İstanbul is the new cool."

In its judgement on an incident of suicide in Sincan Prison, the Constitutional Court has ruled that an investigation shall be launched into the incident six years later and that the family shall be paid 105 thousand lira in damages.

The Ministry of National Defense of Turkey has announced that one soldier has lost his life as part of the “Operation Claw” in Hakurk region.

In the two-week Tokyo 2020 Olympics, competitions in 33 sports branches will be held in the Greater Tokyo area. Turkey is competing in 18 of these 33 disciplines. Here is a brief overview of the Olympic games so far.

One day after the president sacked the rector he had appointed, the acting rector dismissed Can Candan, who had been lecturing at the university since 2007.

Association of Students' Guardians (Veli-Der) Chair Yılmaz has announced that the Veli-Der has launched the “Let Face-to-Face Education Begin” campaign ahead of September 6, when face-to-face education is poised to begin in Turkey amid the pandemic.

Main opposition CHP Niğde MP Ömer Fethi Gürer has indicated that 1,155 workers lost their lives in Turkey in the first six months of this year. 34 percent of the workers died of COVID-19.

Two soldiers lost their lives on Saturday in a missile attack on an armored personnel carrier.

As the Parliamentary questions of MPs and the calls of civil society about the Harmandalı Removal Center in İzmir are left unanswered, main opposition CHP MP Bakan has brought the issue once again to the Parliamentary agenda.