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.

Peoples’ Democratic Party Diyarbakır MP Garo Paylan has expressed support in a social media message after Turkey’s Foreign Minister Çavuşoğlu and his counterpart Mirzoyan from Armeni̇a met in Antalya Diplomacy Forum.

In the Kobanî trial, the Ankara 22nd High Criminal Court has concluded that it is obligatory for Kurdish politician and ill prisoner Aysel Tuğluk, who is diagnosed with dementia, to make her defense at court.

The court has ruled that the assaulter shall be sentenced 1 year, 10 months for “wilful injury”, 4 years, 2 months for “restriction of liberty”, 1 year, 6 months for “insult” and 10 months for “breach of residence immunity by force and threat”.

The Marmara region in Turkey’s northwest and the country’s eastern provinces were hit by heavy snowfall over the weekend. While the İstanbul Strait was closed to traffic for some time, the roads of 1,044 residential areas were closed in the east.

The Ministry of Health has announced that over 298 thousand tests were conducted, 17,426 people were diagnosed with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and 138 people died of the disease in Turkey in the last 24 hours.

Shot in his head with a tear gas canister fired by a police officer in İstanbul during Gezi, Berkin Elvan lost his life on March 11, 2014, 269 days after being shot. He is commemorated on the eighth anniversary of his death.

While the HDP has requested that the Value Added Tax and Special Consumption Tax levied on fuel oil such as gasoline and diesel be removed, the main opposition CHP has made the same request for the fuel oil used in public transportation.

Erdoğan not coming to the courthouse was a violation of the procedures, Kabaş's attorneys said.

While the lowest February temperature was measured in Van’s Özalp in the east with -26.7 degrees Celsius, the highest temperature was witnessed in Şırnak's Cizre in the southeast with 24.5 degrees.