The Diyarbakır Medical Chamber has announced that this year’s “Peace, Fellowship and Democracy Award” will be granted to Emine Şenyaşar, “who has been on a justice watch for 360 days despite all types of pressure and intervention”.

The TTB has made a press statement about the Health Ministry’s decision to lift the outdoor mask mandate and contact tracing code requirements in Turkey.

MHP Chair Devlet Bahçeli has said, “The political and territorial integrity of Ukraine and its sovereignty rights must be respected.”

Turkey has lifted the outdoor mask mandate and contact tracing code requirement; however, the ban on music after midnight, which was introduced as part of the pandemic measures, is still in place. The entertainment industry is outraged.

Health Minister Fahrettin Koca has announced that classes will no longer be closed if there are two COVID-19 cases. The student who has tested positive for the virus will be isolated and in-class education will continue.

Shortly before TurkStat shared the official inflation rates for February 2022, the Inflation Research Group (ENAG) announced that the annual consumer inflation rate was 123.8 percent and monthly inflation rate was 5.44 percent last month.

On the occasion of International HPV Awareness Day on March 4, the İstanbul Chamber of Pharmacists raises concerns that cervical cancer, after breast cancer, is the second most frequent cause of cancer-related deaths among women in the world.

In February 2022, transportation with 75.75 percent, furnishings and household equipment with 64.83 percent and food and non-alcoholic beverages with 64.47 percent were the main groups that saw high annual increases in prices in Turkey.

Federation of Women Associations of Turkey (TKDF) Chair Güllü has penned this year’s March 8 International Women’s Day Declaration of the Turkish Writers’ Union: “Women; to the streets on March 8 for our struggle for democracy and rights!”

According to the report of the Diyarbakır Bar Association, 67 children lost their lives as a result of armored vehicle crashes and remnants of war in Turkey in the last 10 years. Bar Chair Eren says that the deaths occur in Kurdish-majority provinces.

The Ministry of Health has announced that over 407 thousand tests were conducted, 56,780 people were diagnosed with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and 189 people died of the disease in Turkey in the last 24 hours.

"We are not removing masks from our lives, we carry them with us to wear when necessary," Minister Koca has said.

The Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources has allowed mining operations in olive groves.

13 new summaries of proceedings against 11 HDP, TİP and main opposition CHP MPs have been sent to the Parliamentary Speaker’s Office.

The TGS has released a statement about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and criticized Twitter for profiling the employees of Russia-based Sputnik news website. The union has also requested that peace be established as soon as possible.

“I haven’t gone to the cinema, seen a theater play or attended a concert for two years,” says a worker from the Yemeksepeti online food delivery company, speaking to the Labor Studies Community and daily Evrensel for their report.

At the closed session of the General Assembly of the Parliament, Minister of Foreign Affairs Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu will inform the MPs about the developments amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine since February 24.

The reason for the economic crisis is the presidential system, the İYİ Party leader has argued.

Yusuf Yerkel has been appointed as a commercial attache to Turkey’s Consulate General in Frankfurt amid public backlash for having kicked a miner during the protests following the occupational homicide that claimed the lives of 301 miners in Soma.

While Ankara has opposed Russia's invasion of Ukraine and called for a ceasefire, it does not have to pick a side in the war and wants to maintain good relations with both countries, Foreign Minister Çavuşoğlu has said.