“Our draft law involves the prevention of violence against women and employee personal rights of our health workers,” said ruling AKP Grup Deputy Chair Turan and AKP Ankara MP Çam during their press conference at the Parliament.

The Ministry of Health has announced that over 324 thousand tests were conducted, 22,345 people were diagnosed with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and 118 people died of the disease in Turkey in the last 24 hours.

Faced with declining public support, Turkey's ruling alliance is set to amend the election law to secure the parliamentary majority without having to get the majority of the votes in the next year's elections.

The minister's previous predictions about the inflation rate did not come true.

"In the law index, Turkey dropped from 80th place to 117th place from 2015 to 2021. Between 2015 and 2021, interest expenses increased from 53 billion to 181 billion liras," MP Katırcıoğlu has said.

The president had sued the main opposition leader for his remarks against him during a speech at the parliament accusing the president of corruption.

Turkey’s Foreign Minister Çavuşoğlu and Russia’s Foreign Minister Lavrov met in Russia’s capital. Lavrov drew attention to the importance of bilateral meetings “in a period when international relations are quickly and negatively developing”.

RSF Representative to Turkey Erol Önderoğlu says that “Güngör Arslan’s murder comes as no surprise to anyone because he constantly received threatening messages without eliciting any reaction from the authorities”.

The TTB has thanked the healthcare workers and physicians who joined the 2-day strike and said, “The statements made by the President yesterday have shown that our demands are still being ignored”.

Nadiia Özcan, who has been living in Turkey for 15 years, talks about how her parents managed to come to Turkey from Ukraine.

İYİ Party's Akşener addressed Erdoğan: “At the root of the unjust and ungrounded attack of Mr. Crisis against our doctors lies the effort to hide the fact that the healthcare system has been made available to foreigners and unearned income earners.”

"It will be meaningful and important that Turkey, where most Kurds live in the Middle East, recognizes the crimes committed within the scope of Operation Anfal as genocide," the association has said.

Upon the call of the Unity for Democracy, a “Democracy Rostrum” was set up in İstanbul and joined by women from the Women’s Assemblies, Women’s Liberation, Purple Solidarity, Campus Witches, Kırkyama, Green Left Women, CHP and HDP.

Turkey should set a date for coal exit before the climate summit to be held in Egypt at the end of the year, says the Ekosfer Association.

Politicians, union members and women's rights defenders are among the detained.

Turkey's President Erdoğan has announced that Foreign Minister Çavuşoğlu is set to visit Russia, followed by Ukraine, amid ongoing diplomatic efforts to end the war between the two countries. The Minister has arrived in Moscow.

Having lost his life in Germany, Şerafettin Kaya has been laid to rest in Turkey’s Muş. Defending young Kurdish people after the military memorandum in 1971, he was subjected to inhuman treatment alongside them in Diyarbakır Prison after the 1980 coup.

Trying to make her voice heard with slogans and folk dances in front of the factory from 7 in the morning to 5 in the evening, Damar says, “Joining a labor union is not a crime; we are struggling for our union rights here. Our request is reinstatement".

The Directorate General of Meteorology has warned that Turkey will be hit by cold weather and snowfall again, starting from tomorrow, March 17. Snow showers are expected in the capital city of Ankara on March 17 and in İstanbul after March 18.

The Ministry of Health has announced that over 333 thousand tests were conducted, 24,614 people were diagnosed with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and 115 people died of the disease in Turkey in the last 24 hours.