Erdoğan and Bahçeli take on students • Hundreds of waste pickers detained in İstanbul • 460 prisoners with a PhD degree • Gezi trial resumes • Turkey once again accused of child recruitment

The country's criminality score is higher than any other county in Europe. It is second to Syria in "state-embedded criminal actors" ranking.

In a statement shared by the Delegation of the European Union to Turkey, it is said, “We urge the Turkish judiciary to implement the ECtHR judgement that calls for Mr. Kavala’s immediate release.”

A child who survived with minor bruises walked about a kilometer to a village to report the incident. The driver of the shuttle has been taken into custody.

Having moved from Urfa to Çorum as seasonal agricultural workers, Kubacık family’s 13-year-old son Ali Kubacık has been found dead in a puddle during the search and rescue operations that started after the family had reported him missing.

Colombia's police had seized five tons of cocaine in a Turkey-bound ship in June 2020.

Dismissed by appointed rector Naci İnci while he was still the acting rector, Can Candan went to the South Campus to give an open class. He is not let in “because there is an instruction from the Rectorate.” He has been waiting at the gate since 10 am.

The Diyarbakır Bar Association Children’s Rights Center has released a statement about the acquittal of all seven defendants who were on retrial over the death of 4-year-old Leyla Aydemir in Ağrı province.

Amid widespread student protests for affordable housing, the president met with young people.

Two special operations police officers have lost their lives and two police officers have been wounded in an attack in Azaz in Syria.

The members of Ayvalık Democracy Platform commemorated the ones who lost their lives in the October 10 Ankara Massacre: “We won’t forget the ones we lost, we won’t let them be forgotten. We won’t forget or forgive the ones responsible for it.”

When people wanted to commemorate the 103 people killed in a bomb attack in Ankara in 2015, police intervened with tear gas in the first two years. A limited attendance was allowed next year. The ceremony in 2020 was not allowed “due to pandemic.”

Standing trial on charge of “neglect of duty” over the bombing of the HDP’s Diyarbakır rally in 2015, 10 police officers have been acquitted and four police officers have been sentenced to 2 months, 15 days in prison, with their sentences deferred.

MHP Chair Devlet Bahçeli has targeted the Peoples’ Democratic Party, which is currently facing a closure case before the Constitutional Court, and said that the party must be closed. Criticizing the US as well, he has asked, “Is it a friend of foe?”

With 340 bird species detected so far, Iğdır province in eastern Turkey has been marked by a diversity of bird species.

The Ministry of Health has announced that over 344 thousand tests were conducted, 28,370 people were diagnosed with COVID-19, 196 people died of the disease and 135,057 vaccine doses were administered in a day.

Demirtaş's attorney has said that the Committee and the ECtHR Grand Chamber had already evaluated the arguments in Turkey's response.

Being excluded from the F-35 fighter jet program, Ankara now seeks to buy more F-16s, according to reports.

"Prolonging my detention on flimsy grounds is extrajudicial execution. It is an effort to create misperception," Kavala said at today's hearing.

The family’s lawyer has announced that they will take the acquittal of defendants to the upper court: “Putting aside its own interim rulings, the court has overlooked very important evidence in the file just to hand down a ruling today.”