Answering the Parliamentary question of main opposition CHP MP Atila Sertel on forest fires, Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Bekir Pakdemirli has defended giving guaranteed hours of flight for the rented helicopters and planes.

While the ministry does not disclose information about Covid infections in schools, a union member has said about 10 percent of all teachers in the country are either Covid patients or contacts.

“There are Demirtaş and Kavala, who are unjustly held behind bars; this is unacceptable to my conscience,” says main opposition CHP leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu.

The LÖSEV Foundation for Children with Leukemia organizes the National Week for Children with Leukemia on November 2-8: “I throw off my mask and run to my dreams!”

"I'm sending our friends to Anatolia to explain the CHP's secret agenda to our people," Bahçeli has said.

More than 457,000 children in the 14-16 age group are out of school, according to the Education Reform Initiative.

According to the monthly report of the Coalition for Women in Journalism, Turkey was the leading country with the most cases of violence against women journalists in October: “At least 14 women reporters were subjected to violence in the country.”

Naci İnci, the appointed rector of Boğaziçi University, had a protection order issued as per the Law no. 6284 on Protection of Family and Prevention of Violence Against Women. Women protested this order in İstanbul’s Kadıköy.

Osman Kavala has sent a message from Silivri Prison: “After losing four years of my life, the only aspect I can find solace in is the possibility that the process I experienced could contribute to confronting the crucial problems in the judiciary of Turkey.”

With his intestines partially removed and no vision in one eye, Devrim Ayık is still behind bars. His mother Hülya Ayık says that the condition of her son is getting worse day by day and requests his release ahead of his hearing on November 4.

Bulgaria has announced that 350 soldiers have been sent to the Bulgaria-Turkey border to support police officers in the face of growing ‘refugee influx’. According to the country’s Defense Ministry, 6,500 entered Bulgaria ‘illegally’ this year.

Jailed politician Demirtaş says that the restrictions on family and attorney visitations due to the pandemic are still in place in prisons: “Edirne Prison has been rocked by protest slogans for the past 20 days. Do you hear?”

Upon police officers’ criminal complaint, a lawsuit has been filed against nine lawyers who made a press statement in İstanbul in protest against the dismissal of the HDP's elected metropolitan co-mayors of Diyarbakır, Van and Mardin in 2019.

Greenpeace Mediterranean has raised concerns that wastewater the volume of 280 olympic pools mixes with the Marmara Sea from the Ergene River every day: “The solution is to close the water valves discharging the waste water.”

The 68th World Congress of the FCEM, an association uniting women business owners from around the world, will be held in İstanbul on November 3-5. The event will be hosted by the Women Entrepreneurs Association of Turkey (KAGİDER).

The Ministry of Health has announced that over 356 thousand tests were conducted, 28,678 people were diagnosed with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and 217 people died of the disease in Turkey in the last 24 hours.

Apro Diril, a relative of the Diril couple, was remanded in custody twice.

It has been 26 years since the enforced disappearance of Fehmi Tosun. Due to the “privacy of private life”, it is still not unveiled under whose name the vehicle that abducted Tosun was registered.

The Journalists’ Association has released its report for October 2021: At least 58 journalists and media workers were put on trial, three journalists were sentenced to 2 years, 5 months, 12 days in prison and a fine of 16,600 TRY.

BOTAŞ has cited global prices increases for the latest hike. It has maintained prices for households.