A petition has been launched: “The presumption of innocence is an absolute basic right. This right is constantly violated by people and institutions such as the President, Justice Minister and Interior Minister. This right is a matter of existence for legists.”

Taken into custody with torture following the March 8 Women’s Day demonstration in İstanbul’s Kadıköy last year, five Kurdish trans women have been fined 3,500 lira as per the Law on Public Health.

"Physicians are exhausted, health workers are exhausted. This makes a healthy healthcare service impossible," said the head of the Turkish Medical Association.

Speaking about the legal amendment poised to put a time limit on the right to alimony, lawyers Akkaya and Pasinli say that the attacks on women’s rights will not be limited to this, underlining that the amendment is against international conventions.

Halting work for better working conditions, over 150 workers of the Migros Depo, the warehouse of Migros supermarket chain, and three union executives were briefly detained while they were waiting in the warehouse in İstanbul’s Esenyurt.

Amid ongoing increases in the prices of fuel oil, electricity and basic consumption goods among many others, 11 metropolitan mayors from the main opposition CHP have reiterated their requests in order to protect citizens from price hikes.

The administration of Ankara Bar has not shared its Human Rights Center’s report on torture allegations concerning Ankara Security Directorate. Six members of the center have resigned. Lawyers say similar incidents have been going on for some time.

Deniz Yücel, the former Turkey correspondent of Die Welt who spent a year behind bars in Turkey, has been given a judicial fine for “insulting” Hasan Yılmaz, the former İstanbul Deputy Chief Public Prosecutor and the current Vice Justice Minister.

The Umut (Hope) Foundation has shared the 2021 Turkey Violence Map with the public: Firearms were used in 3,172 incidents and sharp objects were used in 629. 3,896 people were wounded across Turkey in these incidents.

The Ministry of Health has announced that over 452 thousand tests were conducted, 111,096 people were diagnosed with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and 241 people died of the disease in Turkey in the last 24 hours.

Nineteen refugees were found frozen to death last week near Turkey's border with Greece. Ankara says the refugees were pushed back by Greece's border security units.

The companies make a profit of 330 to 546 percent from the electricity they provide to households.