YÖK Chair Prof. Erol Özvar has announced that 88.56 percent of the lecturers across Turkey have been vaccinated against COVID-19.

More than 700,000 out of the 1.2 million school-age Syrian refugee children in Turkey are integrated into the country's education system, according to officials from Turkey and the EU.

More than a half of the country's population is now fully vaccinated, according to Minister Koca.

The Constitutional Court has concluded the application of a trans woman whose application for changing her name was rejected as “she didn’t have gender reassignment surgery and society might have wrong perceptions if she had a woman’s name.”

Seven workers were killed and 127 were injured by the explosion in a fireworks factory last year in Sakarya, northwestern Turkey. An expert report has found the owners of the factory to be the "primary negligent party."

Amid debates on “interlocutors in resolving the Kurdish question”, HDP Co-Chair Sancar reiterates that the place to resolve it is the Parliament, noting that “bringing the role of İmralı and HDP up against each other makes it harder to have a holistic approach.”

In his address to the UN General Assembly, Erdoğan has announced that the Paris Climate Agreement will be submitted to the Parliament to be ratified next month and that “Turkey has neither the means nor patience to meet new immigration waves.”

Five students were detained before the alternative graduation ceremony at the Middle East Technical University because they refused to show their banners and student IDs to the police. Released from detention, they have spoken to bianet.

After the Trabzon 2nd Penal Court of First Instance gave a decision of lack of jurisdiction, the police officers on trial in the Metin Lokumcu case lodged an appeal. With their appeal rejected, the trial will now continue at the Trabzon 2nd Heavy Penal Court.

Sharing the findings of their report, Human Rights Association (İHD) İzmir Branch Chair İncin has raised concerns that the number of violations of rights targeting women has increased after Turkey’s withdrawal from the İstanbul Convention.

The Ministry of Health has announced that over 350 thousand tests were conducted, 29,338 people were diagnosed with COVID-19, 260 people died of the disease and 455,001 vaccine doses were administered in a day.

In two weeks, two news articles and one news portal were banned, three TV outlets were fined and the trials of 10 journalists continued.