President and AKP Chair Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has announced that upon mild symptoms, he and his spouse Emine Erdoğan had themselves tested for COVID-19 today and they are having a mild Omicron case.

The Ministry of Health has announced that over 468 thousand tests were conducted, 111,157 people were diagnosed with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and 248 people died of the disease in Turkey in the last 24 hours.

Arrested after being removed from office, HDP’s Diyarbakır Metropolitan Co-Mayor Selçuk Mızraklı has been transferred to Edirne Prison at his own request.

RTÜK member İlhan Taşçı from the main opposition CHP argues that the fine imposed on a daytime show presented by Esra Erol and broadcast by pro-government ATV is “for the show.” RTÜK has also fined Halk TV and TELE 1 news channels.

Main opposition CHP MP Antmen notes that Turkey recognized the ECtHR’s jurisdiction in 1989: “Erdoğan is acting contrary to the Constitution. He wants Turkey to be kicked out of the CoE and wants to make the country a quagmire of Middle East."

On a “white watch” since January 26, physicians protested in front of the Parliament. Turkish Medical Association Chair Prof. Korur Fincancı asked why the legislative proposal foreseeing better employee personal rights for health workers was withdrawn.

A protected area of Turkish pines and a village will be submerged in the water if the dam is built, local groups say.

The Turkish Statistical Institute has announced that Turkey’s population increased by over 1 million people in a year. The annual population growth rate of the country has been announced as 12.7 per thousand in 2021.

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.

The number of printed books saw a 20-percent annual decline in Turkey in January 2022, dropping to the level in 2016. In a first, the number of printed book banderoles also dropped by 0.4 percent last month.

Turkey and Ukraine have signed a total of eight cooperation agreements and memoranda of understanding. “Turkey is ready to do its part to end tensions between Ukraine and Russia,” President Erdoğan reiterated during the press conference.

The Ministry of Health has announced that over 455 thousand tests were conducted, 107,530 people were diagnosed with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and 233 people died of the disease in Turkey in the last 24 hours.

There are formally five different companies within the Digitürk platform and none of them were registered as media companies, bianet has learned.

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.

Eleven people were found dead yesterday near the country's border with Greece. The only person who was still alive when he was found lost his life at the hospital. Turkey says the refugees were pushed back by Greece.