In the trial over the “sexual assault” of İpek Er, who was driven to suicide, the prosecutor demanded that defendant Specialist Sergeant Musa O. be arrested. The court rejected the request at the 4th hearing, which the journalists were not allowed to watch.

After former PM Ahmet Davutoğlu said that Diyarbakır Bar Association Chair “Tahir Elçi fell victim to a political assassination”, the lawyers of the Elçi family have submitted a petition and demanded that Davutoğlu be heard as a witness at the case.

The court board has given a higher sentence to the child worker battered by his employers for demanding his unpaid wage than the sentence given to the employers. The Child Rights Center has announced that it will appeal against the ruling.

The provinces with the highest number of COVID-19 cases are Rize, Elazığ and Trabzon. The highest increase in the number of cases has been witnessed in Kilis, Erzincan and Malatya. There has been a drop in the number of cases in İzmir.

The Ministry of Health has announced that over 340 thousand tests were conducted, 28,118 people were diagnosed with COVID-19, 262 people died of the disease and 494,127 vaccine doses were administered in a day.

"We know the problems about high living costs. By combating profiteers, we will take the inflation under control and prevent exorbitant price increases," Erdoğan has said.

About 500 animals will be tracked via satellite to produce strategies for the protection of endangered species, according to the Ministry of Environment and Urbanization.

At his hearing today, the warden accompanying Özkan said, “He cannot understand or hear you” in response to a question of the presiding judge. Mehmet Emin Özkan has still not been released on the grounds of another ongoing trial.

Greenpeace has released a statement urging the decision makers in Turkey to ratify the Paris Climate Agreement. The country is located in the Mediterranean Basin, one of the regions to be mostly affected by the climate crisis.

After nearly two years of online education, universities will resume in-person classes. Having to move to the cities where their schools are, students face exorbitant housing prices.

Mehmet Laçin, who wanted to put up a tent in front of the HDP Central Office, alleging that his daughter was taken to the mountains, has been protested by the HDP politicians, who argue that “he was the lookout during the murder of Deniz Poyraz.”

Eighteen lawyers from the ÇHD were sentenced to a total of 159 years in prison in 2019. Some of the lawyers are standing retrial.