“Regardless of whether the presidential candidate is affiliated with the HDP or not, we believe that we need to discuss principles and methods rather than the names of potential candidates,” says the Peoples’ Democratic Party in its 11-point declaration.

Turkey's plan to run the airport following the US pullout hasn't succeeded and "all the weapons, ammunition and vehicles at the airport have now been transferred to the Taliban, the president has said.

The driver of the truck has been detained after hitting the child walking with his cattle.

Discharged from public service and fined over her press statements during her protests “to get her job back”, Bozkurt faces an attachment of 281 thousand lira on her bank account. She notes that courts have already cancelled these fines.

Diken news website in Turkey covered a news report by Germany’s BILD newspaper, which said “Dictator Erdoğan” in its headline. 62-year-old Tekiner has been sentenced to 1 year, 3 months in prison for sharing Diken’s news on social media.

Students' housing problem would have been solved with the budget transferred to the Maarif Foundation, an opposition MP has said.

Faced with exorbitant rent prices, university students have been spending nights at parks demanding adequate and affordable housing.

The Women’s Solidarity Club announced that a woman was attacked in front of Koç University campus: “We don’t expect justice from the police who don’t come to the scene or the judiciary that acquits at courts. We are justice, we won’t stay silent.”

HDP Co-Chair Mithat Sancar says that the HDP has the staff, faith and perseverance to resolve all problems of Turkey: “We insistently speak for democracy and peace; we insistently speak for peace and equality.”

The İstanbul no. 3 Branch of the Eğitim-Sen union has said that there are no care attendants in 7 schools in Şişli, Beyoğlu, Beşiktaş, Kağıthane and Sarıyer while there is a single cleaning worker for 800-850 students in several other schools.

The Üsküdar Municipality in İstanbul previously appealed against the decision of stay of execution given for the development plan of the Validebağ Grove. The İstanbul Regional Administrative Court has rejected this appeal.

Addressing Erdoğan and Bahçeli, DEVA Party Chair Babacan says, “If trustees are appointed to municipalities of Kurdish-majority cities, there is an issue. If the right of mother language is still debated, there is an issue. And it is called the Kurdish issue.”

Amid debates on “who the interlocutor is in resolving the Kurdish question”, President Erdoğan has recently said that “there is no such an issue in Turkey”. We have compiled his different statements over the course of his term in office in the last 19 years.

The Ministry of Health has announced that over 340 thousand tests were conducted, 25,861 people were diagnosed with COVID-19 and 228 people died of the disease in a day. Over 107 million vaccine doses have been administered so far.

“I thank my fellow PEN members for entrusting me with PEN’s future - an honour and a responsibility that I recognise and will keep in my mind and heart as I fill the role of President of our noble organisation,” says novelist Sönmez in his acceptance speech.

“As two NATO countries, Turkey and the US should be in a very different position,” says President and AKP Chair Erdoğan, accusing the US of “supporting terrorist organizations beyond expectation.”

Statements by the main opposition party's leader have triggered a new debate on the Kurdish question.

In the trial over the police violence against former bianet reporter Beyza Kural, the court has accepted one police officer’s request for being exempted from attending the hearings while the other officer will attend the hearings via video conferencing.

With their three family members killed and one arrested, Emine and Ferit Şenyaşar have been keeping a justice watch in front of the Urfa courthouse for 200 days.

University students have been facing a "housing crisis" with exorbitant rent prices and infussificent dorm capacities.