LGBTI+ and human rights organizations will organize a statement for the press in the face of recent hate attacks and murders targeting trans women in Turkey’s Aegean province of İzmir in the last two months.

The CHP leader has said that "patriotic bureaucrats" have sent him hundreds of documents about corruption involving Erdoğan and disclosed one of them.

Prisoners Sibel Balaç and Gökhan Yıldırım have been on a hunger strike for their demands as part of the right to a fair trial.

Updating what he had said about musician Sezen Aksu, President and AKP Chair Erdoğan said, “The interlocutor of my address was not Sezen Aksu. I uttered the expression of ‘ripping out tongues’ as a stance on [the ones] against the sacreds.”

Savaş Malkoç, the Secretary General of the Pharmaceutical Industry Employers’ Union, says that the exchange rate of Euro used in pricing medications should be fixed at 6.40 lira with an increase of 40 percent and another update should be made in 2022.

In a written statement, the Press Council has commented on the court's rejection of the appeal against journalist Sedef Kabaş’s arrest: “It is concrete evidence of how much the judiciary has been politicized.”

While the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) has announced the rent increase rate as 19.60 percent, house owners do not recognize this rate as rents have seen a 200-percent increase in some neighborhoods, causing fears for a housing crisis in cities.

According to the last quarterly report of the Human Rights Association’s İstanbul Branch, 3,118 violations of rights in total, including eight losses of life, occurred in 20 prisons in Turkey in the last three months of 2021.

A legal book with an ISBN allocated by the Ministry of Culture is not given to Erol Zavar, who also gave an interview to be included in the book.

The Ministry of Health has announced that over 416 thousand tests were conducted, 77,434 people were diagnosed with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and 188 people died of the disease in Turkey in the last 24 hours.

Since 2018, at least 16 people have lost their lives after being hit by armored vehicles in the country's predominantly Kurdish-populated regions.

You may access the trilingual training videos on Rights-Based Journalism, News Photography, LGBTI+based Journalism and Freedom of Expression on atolyebia.org.

Mayor İmamoğlu came under fire after meeting the UK's ambassador to Turkey at a restaurant while thousands of people were stranded on roads amid blizzards. The same group that filed the complaint threatened singer Sezen Aksu last week.

Delivery workers of the e-commerce company have been protesting low wage rises.

The opposition has slammed the government for not using natural gas storage facilities in full capacity.

The İstanbul 58th Criminal Court of First Instance has dismissed the appeal against the arrest of journalist Sedef Kabaş by indicating that her arrest is “not without due process of law or against the law.”

Twitter has released its transparency report for the January-June 2021 period.

Academics of Boğaziçi University say, “Neither our dismissed deans nor we know why they have been removed from office. Neither the appointed rector, who announced the dismissal of deans, nor the YÖK, which dismissed them, made a statement.”

Heavy snowfall and blizzards have disrupted transportation in the city since the start of the week.

The European Court of Human Rights handed down 78 judgements on Turkey in 2021, ruling against the country in 76 of these cases.