Four labor and occupational organizations announced that they would hold joint rallies of “We cannot make a living” across Turkey on December 12. The Muratpaşa Sub-Governor’s Office in Antalya has banned the rally “because it might pose a risk”.

Not letting three people in because they were trans and verbally assaulting them, the business owner and employee of the Köroğlu Tripe Restaurant have been sentenced to prison: “This is a great achievement. I tried hard to not applaud at court.”

The Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) has released the labor force statistics for October 2021: The unemployment rate was 11.2 percent, which marked a monthly decrease of 0.2 percentage point.

Having announced that she was tortured and sexually assaulted in Kandıra Prison in Kocaeli, Garibe Gezer has suspiciously lost her life in the same prison. Lawyer Eren Keskin asks, “How could a person in a cell hang herself?”

The trial over the police violence against former bianet reporter Beyza Kural continued in İstanbul today, on December 10. The police officer who was supposed to attend the hearing from Diyarbakır via video conference did not attend the hearing.

Commenting on the report shedding light on rights violations and discrimination in Turkey, KONDA's Ağırdır says, “As unemployment, poverty and inequalities have increased, class tensions have come to the forefront again.”

Jailed politician Demirtaş has responded to Erdoğan’s targeting remarks: “I will be out for 2 hours and go to the meeting site with a single megaphone. You will hold a rally at the same site a day later. The one who gathers one person less will quit politics.”

Keeping a justice watch for their killed family members in Urfa, Emine and Ferit Şenyaşar were visited by CHP leader Kılıçdaroğlu on December 9: “All this information is obvious, but no one dares to take a step. I will follow up on this case.”

Main opposition CHP MP Gürer has raised concerns that the abnormal increase in the prices of fertilizers may drive Turkey into a food crisis, calling on the authorities to intervene in fertilizer prices as soon as possible and introduce the necessary discounts.

Future Party Chair Davutoğlu, also a former AKP politician, has commented on President and AKP Chair Erdoğan’s remarks of “We don’t recognize the EU’s decisions”.

The TİHV-HRFT and İHD: “Turkey is going through one of the gravest economic crises of the last 40 years. Poverty, precarity and disorganization have been aggravated by state of emergency practices. This picture has taken on a graver look with the pandemic.”

The Ministry of Health has announced that over 350 thousand tests were conducted, 19,696 people were diagnosed with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and 195 people died of the disease in Turkey in the last 24 hours.

According to the statement released by Turkey's Ministry of National Defense, three soldiers have lost their lives in Iraq. Falling from a high place in Syria’s Idlib, one soldier has passed away at hospital.

The Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Marija Pejčinović Burić, has made a written statement ahead of the Human Rights Day on December 10.

As part of an investigation over his social media messages, the police seized the 20-year archive of video activist and documentary filmmaker Oktay İnce in 2018. İnce got back his archive yesterday, on December 8, 2021.

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has released its annual report: “The number of journalists jailed around the world set another record in 2021. Repressive regimes from Asia to Europe to Africa cracked down harshly on the independent press.”

Two dams providing İstanbulites with water, the Pabuçdere and Kazandere dams in Kırklareli, have almost run dry as a result of drought as well as the zoning of their basins for construction and the damages to forest ecosystems.

Wounded in the accident, Hakan’s mother says, “My son told me once, ‘Mom, you will find us on the mountain road one day, the minibus goes so fast.’ We found our children not on the mountain road but on a straight road.”

Transparency International has granted the 7th Transparency Awards to the Ankara Branch of the Chamber of Architects, journalist Timur Soykan and Faruk Çebi, "a bureaucrat who devoted himself to the protection of nature."

The Urfa Bar Association and the Diyarbakır Regional Representative of the DİSK labor confederation visited the Şenyaşar Family on the 275th day of their justice watch in front of the Urfa courthouse yesterday, on December 8.