Thousands of NGOs in various fields will face the risk of being closed "with a single signature" if the bill passes into law, 129 NGOs have warned.

According to a statement released by the Adana Provincial Branch of the Human Rights Association (İHD), prisoners in Çukurova region mostly complain about the restrictions imposed as part of COVID-19 measures.

Co-Chair of the Democratic Society Congress (DTK) and dismissed HDP MP Leyla Güven has been arrested in Diyarbakır. Güven was previously sentenced to 22 years, 3 months in prison as part of a “terror investigation” in the province.

In a statement released by the Directorate of Prisons amid debates on whether there is strip search in Turkey, it is said that “a detailed search is done if there is reasonable and strong suspicion that the person will bring in a forbidden material or object.”

EU’s Spokesperson for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Massralı has criticized the continued imprisonment of Osman Kavala: “The decision last Friday runs against Turkey’s stated commitment to the rule of law and the respect of fundamental rights.”

Human Rights Association (İHD) İstanbul Branch Chair Gülseren Yoleri has spoken to bianet about the bill that will enable the Ministry of Interior to appoint trustees to NGOs, if passed: “They want to break the resistance points of civil society.”

The Ministry of Interior will be allowed to carry out routine inspections on associations and tightly control charity collection.

Addressing an open letter to Turkey’s Minister of Justice Abdulhamit Gül, Amnesty International has requested a “new prompt, independent and impartial investigation into the allegations of torture and ill-treatment” of a prisoner in Diyarbakır.

After YouTube announced that it would open a local representative in Turkey in line with the country’s recently amended social media law, three rights organizations have criticized the decision in a joint written statement.

While several HDP members, including politicians Sezai Temelli and Ferhat Encü, have been battered by the police, several people have been detained during the intervention into the HDP İstanbul Organization's press statement against isolation.

The people of Özkonak town in Nevşehir province have appealed to the International Criminal Court and filed a criminal complaint against the executives of the Canadian Centerra Gold Company on charge of “committing a crime against humanity”.

“Osman Kavala is facing baseless, politically motivated charges in a prosecution which is part of a wider attempt by Turkish authorities to silence independent civil society,” says Amnesty International’s Europe Director Muižniek ahead of today’s hearing.

Ahead of the hearing of arrested rights defender and businessperson Osman Kavala today, 15 rights organizations have released a statement and said, “We believe that the only just outcome in the unfair prosecution against Kavala is his acquittal.”

The bill authorizes the Ministry of Interior to replace NGO executives because of "terrorism-related" investigations as them.

Amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, students across Turkey have to follow their classes online. However, the students in a neighborhood in eastern Turkey have to climb a mountain everyday because there is no service in their neighborhood.

Having lost their three family members in an attack over two years ago, mother Emine Şenyaşar and her son Ferit Şenyaşar have been detained while staging a sit-in protest in front of the Urfa provincial office of the ruling AKP.

HDP has proposed an action plan against the pandemic in Turkey. The party has recommended that citizens without any income and shop owners who have to close their businesses should be financially supported during the proposed total lockdown.

YouTube has announced that it will “set up a legal entity in Turkey to serve as a local representative, providing a local point of contact for the government,” in compliance with Turkey's social media law.

Despite a forensic medical report documenting that he is not in a state to stay in prison, ill prisoner Abdullah Turan, who is paralyzed from the neck down, is still held in Metris Prison, where he is made to lie on a stretcher.

According to the 2020 report of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), at least 274 journalists were in jail in relation to their work across the world on December 1, 2020, exceeding the high of 272 in 2016.