The Senate has confirmed former Senator Jeff Flake to be the US's new envoy to Ankara. Flake will now succeed current ambassador David Satterfield.

As part of the “Little Prince in Anatolian Languages” project, the world-renowned book is now available as an audiobook in Laz, Adyghe (Circassian) and Kurdish (Kurmanji). The audiobook can be accessed free of charge.

While 89.3 percent of the individual applications finalized by the Constitutional Court were found inadmissible by the top court, 62.5 percent of the 14,911 applications with at least one right violation were about the right to a fair trial.

The motion extending troop deployment in Iraq and Syria has been passed by the ruling AKP, MHP and İYİ Party while the motion of continued participation in a Lebanon peacekeeping mission has also been backed by the main opposition CHP.

The Ministry of Health has announced that over 356 thousand tests were conducted, 29,643 people were diagnosed with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and 215 people died of the disease in Turkey in the last 24 hours.

The US administration has reiterated its support for the reopening of the Halki seminary, which had been the main theological school for the Eastern Orthodox Church until its closure in 1971.

"New informaition about the case was coming all the time. Taking this information incot account would reveal the other people responsible for the incient," attorney Uçar has said.

On the 232nd day of their justice watch, the Şenyaşar family once again demanded justice for their three family members killed by the relatives and guards of a ruling AKP MP in Urfa: “The ruling party is losing as long as it protects this MP.”

The Human Right Foundation of Turkey has documented the violations of freedom of expression between 2015 and 2019.

HDP MP Meral Danış Beştaş has requested that the Parliamentary Human Rights Investigation Commission investigate the incident where Erdal Emeç, an ill prisoner held in Giresun Espiye Prison, was threatened and insulted by a physician.

Five different Parliamentary questions addressed to Minister of Health Fahrettin Koca about the working conditions of assistant physicians have been left unanswered.

Turkey’s Minister of National Education Özer has announced that 87 percent of teachers have received two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine.

While the fill rate of İstanbul’s dams was over 80 percent in April, it has now been measured as 46.26 percent. The loss of water over the past week has been nearly 10 million cubic meters.

Gökçe Erhan was going to attend a demonstration against planned fishfarms in the Black Sea province of Trabzon.

"What we issued was a statement to underscore that the statement that we put out on October 18 was consistent with Article 41 of Vienna Convention," says US Department of State Spokesperson Ned Price about yesterday's statement.

President Erdoğan has said that “with the statement released by the embassies, the mistakes have been rectified.” The Court of Cassation and the Board of Judges and Prosecutors have also made statements emphasizing the judicial independence in Turkey.

With the pandemic cited as the reason, the Governor’s Office has banned all events and demonstrations to be held outdoors in Dersim for 15 days.

Van-Hakkari Medical Chamber Chair Hüseyin Yaviç and Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (TİHV-HRFT) Representative Sevim Çiçek were taken into custody when they wanted to make a press statement about the death of Dr. Şen.

The Ministry of Health has announced that over 350 thousand tests were conducted, 27,663 people were diagnosed with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and 232 people died of the disease in Turkey in the last 24 hours.

Following Erdoğan’s order to declare 10 ambassadors “personae non gratae” over their statement on Osman Kavala, eight embassies have made statements expressing their compliance with the Vienna Convention, a move “welcomed by Erdoğan.”