The women MPs of the main opposition CHP and HDP opened banners of “We will bring the İstanbul Convention back and have it enforced” during the 2022 budget talks at the Parliamentary Commission on Planning and Budgetary.

Addressing the public after the Science Board Meeting, Health Minister Koca has announced that everyone aged 18 and over and vaccinated with the second dose of BioNTech’s vaccine at least six month ago can get an appointment for the third dose.

PEN Turkey has criticized the investigation against Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk over his novel “Nights of Plague” for the second time: “Don’t put Orhan Pamuk on trial by inventing nonexistent crimes; don’t make Atatürk sad.”

The Research Center of the Confederation of Progressive Trade Unions of Turkey has drawn attention to the gap between the number of unemployed people shared by the state agency TurkStat and the one shared by the Employment Agency İŞKUR.

Öznur’s song “Hevalê Reş” for George Floyd, a Black man killed by a police officer who knelt on his neck in the US, has been translated into Turkish, English and German.

The Ministry of Health has announced that over 358 thousand tests were conducted, 27,259 people were diagnosed with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and 203 people died of the disease in Turkey in the last 24 hours.

Hifzullah Kutum has been suspended from his post and is facing "propaganda" charges because of a social media post.

Health problems caused by air pollution from coal-fired power plants cost Turkey 2.86 billion Euro per year, NGOs warn.

HDP’s Züleyha Gülüm, a lawyer of the Kobanî case against 108 politicians, has spoken to bianet about the decision of the defendants and their lawyers to not attend the hearings in protest against the failure to hold a fair trial.

Halis Yerlikaya from the Turkish Medical Association says that 35.2 percent of the COVID-19 deaths of healthcare workers were among physicians while 13 percent were among pharmacists and 6.7 percent were among nurses and midwives.

Speaking about the detention of CHP members distributing the party's leaflets, Üsterci says, "It is very important in terms of showing how narrow the public/political space in the country is and the extent the ruling power's tutelage over politics has reached."

The broad unemployment was 21.9 percent and the youth unemployment was 21.5 percent in September, says TurkStat.