The share of informal employees was 27.8 percent whereas the youth unemployment rate was over 20 percent in December.

The Coalition for Women in Journalism and 37 civil society organizations have released a joint statement and demanded the immediate release of journalist Sedef Kabaş, who has been arrested on charge of “insulting the President”.

Addressing the public in a video amid ongoing price increases and difficulties in making ends meet in Turkey, CHP Chair Kılıçdaroğlu has called on everyone to post their electricity bills on Twitter by mentioning President and AKP Chair Erdoğan.

The amount of the carcinogenic substances of dioxin and furan found in the samples from dumpsites in Adana was 400,000 times higher than in uncontaminated soil, a Greenpeace Mediterranean analysis has found.

Geologist and Science Academy member Prof. Görür warns that “the Marmara fault line is about to break and if it happens, it will lead to a magnitude 7.2 earthquake”, noting that it will also lead to serious consequences in Bursa, Bandırma and Biga.

A representative from the Social Policy, Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation Studies Association (SPoD) has been elected to the steering committee of the İstanbul City Council of the İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality.

HDP Adana MP Tülay Hatimoğulları has addressed a Parliamentary question to Minister of Labor and Social Security Bilgin regarding the workers’ protests ongoing across Turkey for the past month.

At her hearing yesterday, on February 9, jailed Kurdish politician Leyla Güven said that the Turkish translation of her speeches in Kurdish, which are cited as “criminal evidence” in her case file, is full of mistakes.

“The workers demanding their daily bread are now deprived of it as well. We know this force, we know this obtrusiveness. Today, workers all across Turkey are resisting it,” said the Chair of Warehouse, Port, Dock and Maritime Workers Union.

The Ministry of Health has announced that over 456 thousand tests were conducted, 108,563 people were diagnosed with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and 266 people died of the disease in Turkey in the last 24 hours.

A confidentiality order has been imposed on the file of Kurdish film director Selamo, who has been detained in Turkey’s Aegean province of İzmir. Selamo will remain in custody for four days upon the warrant of the prosecutor’s office.

The Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK), the media watchdog of Turkey, has given the Voice of America, Deutsche Welle and Euronews 72 hours to make an application for a license.

According to the latest monthly report of the Civil Society in the Penal System Association, prisoners complain that electricity prices are increasing day by day and they cannot pay the fees as it puts their families into trouble economically.

In his video confessions, exiled mob boss Sedat Peker had described Falyalı as a key figure in cocaine trafficking between Colombia and Turkey. He was also accused of being involved in illegal betting.

A petition has been launched: “The presumption of innocence is an absolute basic right. This right is constantly violated by people and institutions such as the President, Justice Minister and Interior Minister. This right is a matter of existence for legists.”

Taken into custody with torture following the March 8 Women’s Day demonstration in İstanbul’s Kadıköy last year, five Kurdish trans women have been fined 3,500 lira as per the Law on Public Health.

"Physicians are exhausted, health workers are exhausted. This makes a healthy healthcare service impossible," said the head of the Turkish Medical Association.

Speaking about the legal amendment poised to put a time limit on the right to alimony, lawyers Akkaya and Pasinli say that the attacks on women’s rights will not be limited to this, underlining that the amendment is against international conventions.

Halting work for better working conditions, over 150 workers of the Migros Depo, the warehouse of Migros supermarket chain, and three union executives were briefly detained while they were waiting in the warehouse in İstanbul’s Esenyurt.

Amid ongoing increases in the prices of fuel oil, electricity and basic consumption goods among many others, 11 metropolitan mayors from the main opposition CHP have reiterated their requests in order to protect citizens from price hikes.