The Turkish Medical Association is under the constitutional guarantee and it is a public association founded with law bearing the Number 6023. 88 percent (100,000) of the country’s physicians are members of the TTB.

Main opposition CHP leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has addressed Erdoğan: “When several young physicians went abroad, he said, ‘They may leave as they like’. We are the ones to send you away by democratic means. They will stay in their country”.

The nine-year-old stork's break in İstanbul was prolonged due to the recent snowfall.

Nationalist Movement Party leader Devlet Bahçeli has argued that the TTB is “a small minority who leads citizens to fear when the COVID-19 disease intensifies, fuels concerns and opens Turkey’s medical institutions to debate”.

The Turkish Medical Association has released a statement about 89-year-old Dr. Erdinç Köksal, who fell to the ground during the police violence against physicians who wanted to lay a wreath on Taksim Square on March 14 Doctor’s Day.

According to the İstanbul Water and Sewerage Administration, the fill rate of İstanbul’s dams stands at 84.51 percent following the recent heavy snowfall.

The Turkish Statistical Institute has announced the producer price index of agricultural products for February: The producer inflation rate was 13.74 percent monthly and 68.49 percent yearly while some prices saw a nearly 200-percent annual increase.

Human Rights Association (İHD) Hakkari Branch has released a written statement and reminded the public and authorities of the violations of rights committed during the 79-day curfew declared in Kurdish-majority Yüksekova on March 13, 2016.

Germany’s Chancellor Scholz and President Erdoğan agreed to improve cooperation and called for a lasting ceasefire at their meeting in Ankara. Regarding Russia’s S-400s, Erdoğan said, “We need to see what the conditions will bring about".

The Ministry of Health has announced that over 319 thousand tests were conducted, 24,404 people were diagnosed with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and 133 people died of the disease in Turkey in the last 24 hours.

In the trial over the school bus accident that claimed the lives of five students in Afyon, the court board has ruled that vehicle owner İsmail D. shall be released and driver Adalettin Ş. shall remain in prison.

Last week, the president said, "Let them go," in the face of an unprecedented number of doctors emigrating to western countries because of poor working conditions.

The Kaos GL association has responded to the request of the Human Rights and Equality Institution of Turkey (TİHEK) for its reports regarding human rights violations and reminded the institution of its own anti-LGBTI+ practices.

According to the legislative proposal jointly prepared by the AKP and MHP and seeking amendments to the Election Law, the electoral threshold will be reduced from 10 to 7 percent and the obligation to form a group to run in the elections will be lifted.

İstanbul Medical Chamber members were not allowed to lay wreaths on Taksim Square to mark the Doctor's Day.

Amid public outrage at Yıldız Tilbe’s tweet of “Let them all be given poisoned meat, let them all kick the bucket”, the İstanbul Bar Association Animal Rights Center has filed a criminal complaint against the singer.

The Diyarbakır Regional Court of Justice has concluded that the killing of Kemal Kurkut by the police during the 2017 Newroz celebrations “did not violate his right to life.”

In the face of high volatility in foreign exchange rates, the government in late 2021 introduced the foreign exchange rate protected lira deposit system

President Erdoğan received Prime Minister of Greece Mitsotakis in İstanbul. The PM also met Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew. A day later, Mitsotakis has announced that he has tested positive for COVID-19 and is self-isolating.

Healthcare workers will be on strike today, on March 14 Doctor’s Day, and tomorrow. Before this country-wide two-day strike, they protested in İstanbul’s Kadıköy and also addressed Health Minister Fahrettin Koca’s letter to physicians.