Minister Özer has dismissed calls for returning to distance education amid increasing coronavirus cases.

Police raided the journalist's home. The reason for the detention is not yet known.

A statue of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder and the first President of the Republic, was attacked in Samsun, the city to which he went to start the War of Independence. Two people have been arrested over the attack.

The opposition-led Ankara Metropolitan Municipality has added another “page of wasted money” to its website and disclosed the cost of the now-closed Ankapark amusement park, a project of ruling AKP’s former Ankara Mayor Melih Gökçek.

Put on trial for “turning High Criminal Court Judge Akın Gürlek into a target”, journalist Buse Söğütlü has been acquitted. But the court has filed another criminal complaint, this time on charge of “insulting a public official”.

Amnesty International has released a statement in the wake of the CoE Committee of Ministers’ decision to bring infringement proceedings against Turkey over its failure to release Osman Kavala despite the ECtHR ruling.

According to the results of a recent survey carried out by the Socio-Political Field Research Center, 87.7 percent of respondents say that education should be in the mother language starting from pre-school.

The Asrın Law Office applied to the Constitutional Court as they are unable to meet or hear from their clients held in İmralı Prison. The top court rejected the application on January 12 and notified the lawyers on January 31.

The members of Boğaziçi University Senate said that the undergraduate law program could not be discussed or voted without passing the relevant sub-committees and commissions. The program has been approved despite the objections.

The CoE Committee of Ministers yesterday launched infringement proceedings against Turkey because of its failure to release Kavala despite an ECtHR verdict.

In an open letter to President Erdoğan, Council of Higher Education head Prof. Özvar and Boğaziçi University’s appointed rector Naci İnci, Scholars at Risk has called for “immediate steps to safeguard academic freedom and institutional autonomy.”

Garo Paylan, the HDP Vice Co-Chair Responsible for the Economy, says, “The wage increase has melted before minimum wage earners have it in their pockets”, noting that Erdoğan has taken back a lot more than the wage increase he gave to people.

Making defense in place of HDP MP Semra Güzel in the face of summaries of proceedings seeking to lift her immunity, HDP MP Filiz Kerestecioğlu said, “Anonymous witness is not lawful, it should be lifted. We are watching history repeat itself.”

Taken into custody on January 26, but quarantined at her house as she tested positive for COVID-19, Democratic Regions Party (DBP) Diyarbakır Co-Chair Seval Gülmez has been arrested for “propagandizing for a terrorist organization”.

Justice Minister Bozdağ spoke at the “Meeting of Struggle Against Domestic Violence and Violence Against Women.” He said, “We have increased the penalties and measures, but incidents continue. A murder is a murder though the number drops.”

HDP MP Kaçmaz says that “it would be a dream to expect political power holders to observe the best interest of the child given that they cannot even comprehend that it is child abuse to listen and laugh at a child made to speak at a rally in taught words”.

Jailed businessperson Osman Kavala has made a statement after the CoE decided to bring infringement proceedings against Turkey: “I find it important that the judicial practices followed to continue my detention are reviewed with an impartial eye.”

The new rule will apply to court verdicts issued on or after February 1.

The ECtHR will now decide whether Turkey has abided by its ruling and fulfilled its obligations as a party to the European Convention on Human Rights. Ankara says the decision is "politically motivated."

The president and his cabinet members were slammed after watching the child with a smile on their faces.