"I count on the Turkish judiciary to act in full compliance with the standards of the European Convention on Human Rights," Kox has said. Meanwhile, PACE has postponed a meeting in Ankara.

Following the meeting of the Coronavirus Scientific Advisory Board of the Health Ministry, the obligation to wear face masks indoors has been lifted except for public transportation and health institutions.

We are sharing the short biographies of the eight convicts of the Gezi trial, who spent their lives struggling for rights and equality.

The US State Department has expressed "deep trouble and disappointment" because of Osman Kavala's aggravated life sentence.

"This decision reconfirms the authoritarian character of the current system," Nacho Sanchez Amor and Sergey Lagodinsky said in a joint statement.

"Today, we have witnessed a travesty of justice of spectacular proportions. The court's decision defies all logic," said Amnesty International's Europe director.

International academic community, including Noam Chomsky, Judith Butler and David Harvey, has condemned "the intensifying attacks" on Boğaziçi, where the protests against the appointed rectors have been ongoing since January 2021.

During the anti-nuclear demonstration in Sinop, it was underlined that giving a positive Environmental Impact Assessment report for the nuclear power plant to be constructed in the province was “partial, deliberate and political.”

Representatives from the bar associations of Diyarbakır, Van, Bingöl and Siirt and from the İHD and TİHV protested the construction near Newala Qesaba, a site of mass graves in eastern Turkey. Police officers tried to block their passage.

The Child Commission of the Peoples’ Democratic Party has released a statement about the problems and violations of rights faced by children in Turkey shortly after April 23, which is marked as the Children’s Day in the country.

Having faced a mucilage, or sea snot, problem last summer, İstanbul has witnessed pollution similar to mucilage on Fenerbahçe Coast in Kadıköy.

The Ministry of Health has announced that over 134 thousand tests were conducted, 2,604 people were diagnosed with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and 15 people died of the disease in Turkey in the last 24 hours.