While the ruling alliance has announced that the election threshold will be lowered, it has yet to decide on other amendments to the law, according to BBC Turkish.

In the Economic Freedom Index, which covers 165 countries of the world, Turkey has ranked 114th with 6.54 points. In 2018, the ranking of the country was 100 with 6.69 points.

Journalist Hrant Dink, the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Agos newspaper, would be 67 years old today if he had not been assassinated in 2007. The online International Hrant Dink Award ceremony will be held online tonight.

According to the KESK’s report regarding the forest fires in Dersim, 140 hectares of land were affected by the fires in the Fırtına Veli area while 340 hectares were affected in Hozat: “Fires in Dersim systematically increase in times of security policies.”

According to the latest report of the UN Syria Commission of Inquiry, Syria is not fit for the safe and dignified returns of refugees and this year’s upsurge in fighting and the return to violence are causes for alarm.

Raising concerns about the mounting threats and attacks against the right to defense, the 78 bar associations demand the suspension of the presiding judge and the police who took the Diyarbakır Bar Chair and lawyers out of the courtroom by force.

The trial over the death of 20-year-old Recep Hantaş, who was shot by police in Diyarbakır while collecting scraps, has begun. Released pending trial and facing up to 25 years in prison, the police officer has not been arrested.

The Ministry of Health has announced that nearly 335 thousand tests were conducted, 27,802 people were diagnosed with COVID-19, 276 people died of the disease and 570,009 vaccine doses were administered in a day.

Oral stood trial for being a board member of an association that was shut down by a statutory decree during the state of emergency declared after the 2016 coup attempt.

Anti-vaccination is not too high, but hesitancy is the fundamental problem in the southeastern province, a doctor from the Turkish Medical Association has told bianet.

The European Court of Human Rights has sentenced Turkey to pay 13 thousand Euro in total in damages, concluding that the right to liberty and security and freedom of expression of former Siirt Mayor Tuncer Bakırhan have been violated.

Submitting a Parliamentary question, HDP MP Oya Ersoy has raised concerns about the violations of the right to hold meetings and demonstrations: “Does the virus only infect the ones exercising their democratic rights?”