Ministers of foreign affairs and defense talked over the phone with their counterparts from Ukraine and Russia, respectively.

Joined by MP Gülüm, HDP members flew purple balloons with names of women prisoners written on them.

The memorandum of understanding signed by the CHP, İYİ Party, Felicity Party, Democrat Party, Future Party and DEVA Party covers a wide range of issues from ending the Presidential System to reducing the electoral threshold from 10 to 3 percent.

Amid increasing economic problems and poverty in Turkey, the Ankara Medical Chamber held a press conference about poverty, which drives the health and healthcare system away from a state of complete wellness, and its effects on health.

At the 10th hearing of the Kobanî trial, the lawyer of Kurdish politician and ill prisoner Aysel Tuğluk talked about her health and demanded her release.

Five groups have criticized the media for promoting warmongering and disregarding the lives of civilians.

The Turkish Statistical Institute has shared the foreign trade statistics: In January 2022, Turkey's foreign trade deficit was 10 billion 261 million dollars with a 234.9-percent increase compared with January 2021.

85 international rights and press freedom organizations, including the Media and Law Studies Association (MLSA) from Turkey, have released a joint statement amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: "We unilaterally condemn the violence and aggression."

The court previously issued a verdict of stay of execution for the project. It has ruled that the ministry's environmental report for the project had deficiencies.

With their three family members killed in an attack by the relatives and guards of a ruling AKP MP, Emine and Ferit Şenyaşar have applied to the Antep Appeals Court and requested the release of Fadıl Şenyaşar, who has been arrested for 4 years.

In a statement about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the DİB says, “We, once again, face a war fought for imperialist interests to dominate energy and oil sources. Just as we are against the invasion of Iraq, Yemen, Syria, we are against the invasion of Ukraine.”

Addressing a letter to political parties in Turkey, the Women’s Coalition has stressed that women worked for all legal regulations, conventions and mechanisms related to gender equality and underlined that “a new Constitution is a must.”

Citizens of Ukraine have protested Russia's invasion of their country in Turkey's capital. Ukraine's ambassador to Turkey gave a speech at the demonstration.

Holding their first meeting on January 18, seven political parties met again in Ankara. Making a statement after the meeting, the parties have expressed their support for peace against war, for labor against exploitation and for life against plunder of nature.

Main opposition CHP leader Kılıçdaroğlu said, “We need to heal our wounds because these wounds are still open. Facing and being able to reconcile mean being able to proceed on our path. I have a promise: I will reconcile this country.”

Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Co-Chair Sancar spoke at the 6th Ordinary Congress of the Democratic Regions Party (DBP): “If the existence, freedom and political will of the Kurdish people are under threat, a national unity in the face of this is inevitable”.

Alevi organizations protested compulsory religious education at schools by holding protest demonstrations in İstanbul, Adana, Adıyaman, Antalya, Aydın, Balıkesir, Dersim, Eskişehir, İzmir, Kırklareli, Kayseri, Muğla and Samsun.

The Ministry of Health has announced that over 394 thousand tests were conducted, 49,792 people were diagnosed with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and 206 people died of the disease in Turkey in the last 24 hours.

"We knew this would happen. Maybe we weren't expecting such a big, evil and violent attack, but we knew Putin would not stop," says Iryna Demiroğlu, the head of the Bodrum Ukrainians Association.

Two senior government officials, the foreign minister and the presidential spokesperson, have defined Russia's invasion as a "war" and said Ankara will act accordingly. Meanwhile, protests against the invasion continue across Turkey, both by citizens of Ukraine and locals.